Lead design and development of core features, enhance application performance, identify product opportunities, and support company growth.
Courier Health is on a mission to solve one of the biggest and most meaningful opportunities in healthcare: reinvent how people living with chronic and rare diseases are supported.
We are building the future of patient engagement for life sciences companies. Our software is leveraged by biopharma companies to support patients in their complex journey from diagnosis to initiating and remaining on therapy to achieve optimal health outcomes.
We are looking for talented individuals who are motivated by the opportunity to have an outsized impact on not just their company, but the healthcare industry at large.
What you’ll do- Play a lead role designing, building, and scaling software systems to support our rapidly growing product and customer base. This is a generalist role with opportunities to contribute on both the backend and frontend. Depending on the team, this role may focus more heavily on particular parts of the stack with the ability to specialize - let us know what excites you!
- Own large systems and projects end-to-end, supporting critical company initiatives and driving the vision for long-term technical success.
- Collaborate closely with the Product, Design, and Client Solutions teams to scope and deliver impactful projects to our users.
- Use AI and LLMs to accelerate your impact and power innovative product features.
- Drive improvements to our internal Engineering systems and processes, including testing, deployment, observability, and agentic coding.
- Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, growth, and excellence within the Engineering organization by leading through example and mentoring engineers.
- B.S. or higher in computer science or a relevant field, or equivalent industry experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Expertise with at least one modern programming language, such as TypeScript, Python, Golang, etc.
- Experience working with relational databases, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems
- Product-engineering mindset: able to balance technical quality with velocity and user value
- Inspired by our mission to improve healthcare through technology
- Experience with TypeScript, NodeJS, React, GraphQL, AWS, PostgreSQL, or Terraform
- Experience building software in the health-tech or healthcare space
- Experience at early stage software companies
- Built and operated LLM-powered products in production
- 100% paid employee health benefit options (including medical, dental, and vision)
- 401(k) with employer funded match
- Unlimited Vacation
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Catered lunch on Fridays
- Wellness stipend
- Great Place to Work Certified
The annual salary range for the target level for this role is $175,000 - $225,000 + equity + benefits, including medical, dental, and vision.
Courier Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Courier Health New York, New York, USA Office
Our office is located in Flatiron, NYC across from Madison Square Park. We're conveniently located with several Subway and bus stops nearby and plenty of healthy, casual places to grab lunch!
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