Principal Full Stack Engineer

Seven Starling

full-time

Posted on: 8/28/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $190,000 - $210,000 per year

Lead

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.

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.