Metriport
Staff Software Engineer
$200K–$260K
San Francisco · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years as a full stack engineer.
About the job
Co-own and evolve Metriport’s healthcare data platform, setting technical direction and delivering scalable integrations, APIs, and infrastructure while leading and mentoring engineers.
What you'll do
- Define architecture and engineering practices for scalable, low-latency systems, observability, maintainable code, and AI evaluation and monitoring.
- Lead projects from design through production across APIs, healthcare integrations, and platform infrastructure; improve reliability, security, scalability, and developer experience.
- Mentor and guide engineers, coordinate team delivery, and participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and on-call rotation.
What they ask for
- 8+ years as a full stack engineer, with emphasis on back end, public APIs, distributed systems, and complex external integrations.
- Experience leading engineers and owning a team’s technical direction and delivery.
- Experience developing and scaling cloud platforms to many millions or billions of transactions a day, including optimizing scalability and cost.
- Located in San Francisco or the Bay Area, or willing to relocate.
Nice to have
- Experience processing large datasets across services, including transforming, consolidating, and building query services.
- Healthcare standards or technologies such as FHIR, HIE, IHE, EHR/EMR, NPI, TEFCA, ADT, HL7, HEDIS, RAF, SNOMED, LOINC, or ICD 10.
Pay
$200K – $260K USD base salary
Tools
Node.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS, CDK, S3, PostgreSQL/Aurora, DynamoDB
AI focus
Foster effective AI use in the product, including evaluations, harnesses, and observability; potential project includes using AI/ML to structure doctors’ notes.
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