Seven Starling

Principal Full Stack Engineer

Seven Starling

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudPostgresReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Seven Starling is a virtual provider of women's behavioral health services supporting every stage of motherhood, combining therapy, peer support, and medication management.
  • As the third engineering hire, shape architecture, systems, and culture; ensure platform is robust, secure, and scalable while building new products.
  • Build & ship innovative products quickly: deliver products, platform improvements, and operational tooling at startup velocity.
  • Ensure healthcare-grade compliance: design and implement HIPAA-compliant systems that safeguard PHI and maintain security and audit standards.
  • Collaborate across functions with COO, Product, Operations, and Clinical leadership to meet stakeholder needs.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices: design patterns, testing, deployment pipelines, observability, and incident response.
  • Act as a technical thought partner to leadership on roadmap trade-offs between speed, scale, and compliance.
  • Partner with Founding Senior Principal Engineer to set technical direction, system design, infrastructure, scalability, and security.
  • Mentor and level up the team, instilling technical excellence and accountability.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in startups where you’ve built and scaled systems under fast growth.
  • Demonstrated experience building and scaling products in healthcare or similarly regulated industries (HIPAA, SOC2, or equivalent).
  • Deep experience designing and implementing distributed, cloud-native systems; proficiency with Google Cloud (GKE, Pub/Sub) and Postgres is a strong plus.
  • Highly skilled with modern frontend (React/TypeScript) and backend technologies; able to comfortably span the stack when needed.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to articulate complex technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams; driving technical quality and operational excellence.
  • Passion for improving healthcare access and outcomes.
  • Extra credit: Experience in early-stage product architecture and prior role as Principal or Senior Staff Engineer in a digital health startup.