Staff Software Engineer

Wellvana

Staff Software Engineer managing internal tooling connecting data platform with clinical operations and analytics. Building user-friendly interfaces and contributing to data engineering work.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeNashville • Tennessee • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudNode.jsPythonReact

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect, build, and maintain internal web and desktop applications used by clinical operations, analytics, and data engineering teams.
Own the full stack: frontend interfaces, backend APIs, authentication, deployment, and observability.
Partner with data engineering to surface pipeline outputs, data quality signals, and operational metrics in usable interfaces.
Establish frontend and application engineering conventions where none currently exist.
Contribute to data engineering work — pipeline development, Dagster assets, dbt models — when capacity or priority calls for it.
Evaluate and introduce tooling, frameworks, and infrastructure appropriate to a small team with limited ops overhead.
Translate ambiguous requirements from non-technical stakeholders into scoped, shippable software.
Raise the application development baseline of the broader data engineering team through pairing, review, and convention-setting.
Deploy and manage containerized applications on AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, or equivalent).
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline application deployment and integration processes.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including analytics, clinical ops, and product, to ensure software meets real user needs.
Build and maintain API-based integrations to facilitate seamless data exchange between internal applications and the data platform.
Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously improve application development practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated scope growth.
3+ years of cloud deployment experience on AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, or equivalent).
3+ years of production experience with a modern frontend framework (React preferred).
3+ years of backend API development in Python or Node.
Demonstrated use of AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or similar) in a professional development workflow.
Healthcare or regulated-data environment experience is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

full stack developmentfrontend developmentbackend API developmentPythonNodeReactCI/CD pipelinescontainerizationAWSdata engineering

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadershipmentoringrequirement translationconvention-settinguser needs focusteamwork