Full Stack Engineer

About the job

Laguna Health is on a hunt for a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer to join our innovative team as we expand our presence in New York City!

As a Full Stack Engineer at Laguna Health, you will play a crucial role in designing and implementing our cutting-edge platform, taking full ownership of features from inception to deployment. Your mission is to create robust and scalable software solutions capable of handling large amounts of data and delivering precise results. With expert hands-on development skills and a comprehensive understanding of cloud-native applications, you will significantly impact digital health, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of diverse care teams communicating with patients at home using conversational AI.

What sets us apart is our commitment to making care more human. As a Laguna developer, your work will extend beyond lines of code - you will be crafting solutions that streamline the workflow and impact of care team members on patient lives. If you are driven by the desire to make a meaningful difference and build with purpose, you are exactly the kind of individual we are eager to welcome to our team!

About Us

Bottom line: We are not only saving money, we’re saving lives.

Laguna leverages the power of GenAI to help care managers be more efficient, so they can handle large caseloads while responding to individual member needs with consistency and quality.. Our platform helps care managers identify risk barriers and intervene automatically – providing better care and reducing costs. Our comprehensive product suite encompasses a cloud-based care management system, browser extension, a member app, and advanced AI models. The platform’s impact is proven through both published actuarial research and randomized clinical trials, demonstrating 50% cost savings while increasing care manager productivity tenfold.

Laguna is led by a seasoned team of clinical leaders and technology innovators with successful track records in digital health. Our customers include health plans, employers, and integrated delivery networks aiming to improve member outcomes while increasing care management productivity.

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About The Role

• Take part in the design and implementation of our products and architecture, playing a major role in the company’s success.
• Own features end-to-end, from design and development to production.
• Develop both server-side and client-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
• Apply software engineering best practices to continuously improve the quality of our codebase and Laguna’s velocity.
• Collaborate with team members and colleagues to solve problems and overcome design challenges.
• Be involved in the product development process and impact Laguna’s offering.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies, frameworks, and tools to improve the team's efficiency and productivity.
• Take ownership of critical features and projects, ensuring their successful delivery and implementation.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues and challenges.
• Invest in building and maintaining strong relationships with a partially remote team, ensuring clear and effective communication.

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About You

• 5+ years of substantial experience in full stack development with Node.js and React.
• Proficiency in front-end development using React, with React Native being a strong advantage.
• Experience with GraphQL and Amazon Cognito.
• Experience building web applications over AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Ability to take a complex feature from start to finish: design, implement, test, release, and successfully deploy in production.
• Ability to handle open-ended problems, understand needs and priorities, and propose technical solutions.
• Deep understanding of strong fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, systems, applications programming, and multithreading programming.
• Experience with software engineering best practices and methodologies: testing, code reviews, and clean code.
• Team player with a can-do attitude and strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Capacity to work independently, especially in a time-sensitive and high-volume dynamic startup environment.
• Experience building applications that support Single Sign-On (SSO).

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Nice to Have (Advantages)

• Experience with building Google Chrome extensions.
• Experience working with telephony, audio, or video streaming.
• Experience with testing methodologies – unit testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Previous experience in a partially remote team setup.

To apply, contact careers@lagunahealth.com