Axle Health

Axle Health

Senior Software Engineer, Interoperability

Santa Monica HQ · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 97 days ago
TypeScriptReactReact NativeNode.jsDjangoExpressAlgorithmsCode ReviewGitSQLPostgreSQLAWSCI/CDDatadogDevOpsGraphQLLogisticsHL7/FHIREHR/EMRLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Healthcare Interoperability team; the group responsible for connecting Axle Health's scheduling and workforce management platform directly into the daily workflows of home healthcare providers.

Responsibilities

  • Architect high-volume backend systems built to support hundreds of thousands of patients reliably and at scale
  • Lead technical design discussions and drive engineering decisions from initial scoping through delivery
  • Collaborate with and provide technical leadership to other engineers, setting a high bar for code quality through thorough and constructive code reviews
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, investing in their growth and helping them develop strong engineering fundamentals
  • Expertise building backend systems in Node.js + TypeScript (1-2+ years)
  • Demonstrated ability to architect scalable, performant, and secure systems - not just implement within them
  • Everyone in an organization has big ideas and we want to hear them and implement them.
  • We are committed to building Community:

Requirements

  • Santa Monica HQ with 180 degree beach views and daily catered lunches

Nice to have

  • Experience working on systems with significant data volume or uptime requirements
  • Claude Code and Cursor
  • We cultivate an environment where team members feel ownership over the work they do.

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience designing and working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
  • Strong technical communication skills (able to explain complex decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders)
  • Proven ability to conduct rigorous, constructive code reviews that improve both code quality and team capability
  • Demonstrated ability to self-learn and quickly adapt to new technologies
  • ExpressJS + TypeScript
  • GraphQL + React + React Native
  • PostgresSQL
  • Datadog
  • Git / Github / Graphite
  • Django + Python3

Compensation

  • In addition to offering a competitive salary and equity, we want to ensure every team member has the tools they need to work to the best of their ability.

Benefits

  • In addition to offering a competitive salary and equity, we want to ensure every team member has the tools they need to work to the best of their ability.
  • All of our employees have equity compensation.
  • We want you to benefit from all the hard work you do in helping patients and catalyzing this
  • shift in healthcare.
  • We are committed to your Wellness:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Flexible PTO and sick days
  • Commuter benefits
  • you'll design and build the integrations that make Axle Health indispensable to our customers, and you'll help shape how our team works as we scale.

Company info

  • Axle Health builds AI scheduling and workforce management software to empower in-home healthcare providers to deliver exceptional, personalized care right where patients feel most comfortable-at home.
  • Some of the biggest providers in the country use our software (like Cityblock Health and U Penn Health System) to improve the utilization of their field teams by 17%+, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching.
  • Our platform includes proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, a mobile app for field staff, an operations dashboard for office teams, engagement and booking tools for patients, and a wide range of integrations and external APIs for modular access.
  • We're a team of top-tier engineers and operators, backed by $14m from top investors such as Y Combinator, Pear VC, and F-Prime, applying our intellect and logistics experience to upend how home healthcare is delivered.
  • This is a high-leverage, high-ownership role: you'll design and build the integrations that make Axle Health indispensable to our customers, and you'll help shape how our team works as we scale.
  • Our ideal candidate brings deep backend expertise, strong architectural instincts, and a genuine passion for solving complex problems in systems that matter.
  • You've built reliable, high-volume systems before, whether at scale at a growth stage company or from the ground up at a startup, and you know how to lead technical work across a team without losing your connection to the code.
  • If you're energized by meaningful technical challenges and want your work to directly improve care delivery for patients, we want to hear from you.
  • Monthly team events, dinners, & happy hours
  • We are committed to your Ownership:
  • We are committed to your Growth:

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