Staff Software Engineer – Foundations

Atria Institute

Staff Software Engineer leading platform, DevOps, and data engineering for Atria’s membership-based preventive healthcare practice. Designing EMR integrations, caching, infrastructure, and internal tools.

Posted 8/4/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $200,000 - $280,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in defining technical vision, leading architecture decisions, and driving multi-team initiatives in software engineering. Proficient in API and data-model design, performance optimization, and mentoring engineers while ensuring adherence to engineering standards.

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Technical Vision DefinitionAPI And Data-Model DesignPerformance OptimizationMulti-Team Project LeadershipMentoring Engineers

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringSystems DesignDebuggingIncident ResponseFull-Stack DevelopmentCaching StrategiesApplication Performance ImprovementUnit TestingInfrastructure-As-CodeMixpanel Analytics

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationCross-Functional CollaborationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

Cloud ProviderSDKsInternal APIsMonitoring ToolsData Dashboards

Industry Keywords

HealthcareDigital HealthEHRsHealth Data PlatformsRegulated Domains

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive the technical vision and direction for the Foundations group
Lead architecture decisions for integration patterns, caching infrastructure, shared services, APIs, and data models
Serve as a technical escalation point and conduct design reviews for reliability, performance, and security
Drive SLOs, capacity planning, and incident-ready designs
Execute high-priority technical projects and own complex, multi-team initiatives end to end
Design and implement application performance improvements and caching strategies
Monitor and optimize platform performance and establish best practices
Build and maintain shared libraries, SDKs, and internal APIs
Create documentation, examples, and guidelines for platform services
Support product engineering teams during integrations
Embed unit, functional, contract, and automated testing
Ensure consistent Mixpanel analytics instrumentation
Partner with Product and Data on outcome-focused dashboards and monitoring
Drive post-incident reviews and systemic improvements
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design guidance, pairing, and code review
Define and uphold engineering standards and documentation norms

Requirements

What you’ll need

Approximately 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant senior/staff individual-contributor experience building production product experiences
Track record of owning and shipping multi-team projects in modern web stacks
Experience working closely with product and design on user-facing features
Ability to lead technical decisions in ambiguous domains and explain tradeoffs
Strong full-stack skills across API and data-model design, UI development, monitoring, and metrics
Deep familiarity with at least one cloud provider and infrastructure-as-code
Strong systems-design instincts covering reliability, performance, security, and cost
Excellent debugging and incident-response skills using logs, traces, and data
Proven ability to lead through influence across multiple teams and partners
Comfort working cross-functionally with clinicians, operations, and research
Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Enjoyment of mentoring and developing engineers
Experience in healthcare, digital health, or regulated domains is nice to have
Exposure to EHRs, wearables integrations, or health data platforms is nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks

Excellent health and wellness benefits, fully covered by Atria, effective date of hire
OneMedical membership for employees & dependents, giving access to 24/7 virtual care
Fertility & family planning
Company-covered preventive health screenings through partner hospitals (calcium score)
Fitness Perks, including Wellhub +
401k contributions and 4% match starting after 6 months
Flexible Time Off
Continuing medical education (CME) and CEU support for professional licensure