Staff Software Engineer – Foundations

Atria Institute

Staff Software Engineer leading Atria’s healthcare platform, EMR integrations, and infrastructure. Enabling clinical and member product teams through shared services, performance, observability, and tooling.

Posted 8/4/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 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 executing complex multi-team projects. Proficient in API design, data modeling, and performance optimization within healthcare or regulated domains.

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Technical Vision LeadershipAPI And Data-Model DesignFull-Stack DevelopmentCloud Provider FamiliarityIncident Response Skills

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Hard Skills

Software EngineeringAPI DesignData ModelingApplication Performance StrategiesCaching InfrastructureSystems DesignMonitoring And MetricsUnit TestingFunctional TestingContract Testing

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationMentoring EngineersCross-Functional CollaborationTechnical Decision-MakingInfluence Across Teams

Tools & Technologies

Cloud InfrastructureInfrastructure-As-CodeMixpanelSDK DevelopmentShared Libraries

Industry Keywords

HealthcareDigital HealthEHRsWearables IntegrationsHealth Data Platforms

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, and shared services
Design APIs, data models, and integration patterns for clinical and member experiences
Serve as a technical escalation point and conduct design reviews
Drive SLOs, capacity planning, and incident-ready designs
Execute high-priority, technically challenging projects and own end-to-end delivery of complex multi-team initiatives
Design and implement application-performance strategies and caching infrastructure
Monitor and optimize platform performance and establish best practices
Partner with product engineering teams to provide platform solutions
Build and maintain shared libraries, SDKs, and internal APIs
Create documentation, examples, and guidelines for platform services
Provide technical guidance during product-team integration efforts
Embed testability through unit, functional, and contract tests
Ensure consistent Mixpanel analytics instrumentation
Set up outcome-focused dashboards and monitoring with Product and Data
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, architecture patterns, and documentation norms

Requirements

What you’ll need

~8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time as a senior/staff IC building product experiences in production
Track record of owning and shipping multi-team projects in modern web stacks
Experience working closely with product and design on user-facing features
Comfortable leading technical decisions in ambiguous domains and defending decisions with clear tradeoffs
Strong full-stack skills, including 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 with logs, traces, and data
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