Staff Full Stack Engineer

Job Description

Who we are

Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus’s mission is to catalyze healthcare’s greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights – so that they can build up, not around.

As part of our team, you will…

• Build and operate web applications and the APIs that power them

• Collaborate with non-technical members to iteratively prototype and develop new customer features

• Work across Engineering teams to maintain and improve shared AWS infrastructure

• Grow projects from design to betas and upgrade betas to use at scale

• Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the teams systems

• Guide all team members to follow good engineering practices

• Partner with product managers and outside stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities

You’re a good fit because you…

• Are scrappy and you know when to move fast

• Can work across the tech stack, from frontend CSS bugs to backend AWS infrastructure. We totally get that you may be more comfortable in one area over another – we are looking for versatility, not perfection

• Care about usability and the polish that makes an interface delightful.

• Seek user feedback and use analytics driven decisions to improve the overall product experience.

• Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production

• Are excited ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare

• Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup

• Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems across teams, including the AI team

And it would be awesome if you were…

• Experienced in building and scaling high quality consumer-facing UIs

• Familiar with our tech stack [React, Tailwind CSS, Typescript, Go, Python, REST, GraphQL, Terraform, AWS, Docker] 

• Experience with the tools that support our work [Amplitude, Sigma, Auth0, Metaplane, DataDog, Claude Code, Atlassian]

• Knowledgeable about application security & HITRUST compliance

• Experienced in working with HIPAA-compliant APIs

• Familiar with the FHIR R4 Standards and/or TEFCA standards

• Optimistic about how AI can enhance products and assist in building them

We will offer you…

• Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity

• Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO

• Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)

Please Note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.

We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you’ve interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.