# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Metriport](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/metriport)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, React, AWS, Aws Cdk, Postgres, DynamoDB, Snowflake, Opensearch, Terraform
**Posted:** 2026-05-08

> Senior full-stack engineer (backend-heavy) drives end-to-end projects scaling healthcare data platforms, building search/infra/LLM features using Node.js/TypeScript/AWS. Requires 6+ YOE, strong ownership, SF-based/relocate, generalist hacker mindset.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Drive projects end-to-end from ideation to production rollout: write design docs, review with team, build v0 PRs quickly for staging/pilot customers, iterate to v1 with feedback, and roll out to all customers.
- Scale services to handle 100x load, manage infra costs for savings and scalability.
- Build OpenSearch cluster for searching patient medical history.
- Transform TCP messages from 90s protocol to modern HTTP webhooks.
- Use LLMs to transform doctors' notes into structured medical data.
- Review PRs for other engineers, balancing quality and speed.
- Manage work in Linear, participate in sprint planning/retros, quarterly planning, daily stand-up, and on-call rotation.

## Requirements

- 6+ years experience as a full-stack engineer, heavy lean towards back-end.
- Experience developing and maintaining cloud-based platforms, including scaling, infrastructure as code, and monitoring.
**Nice-to-have:** Experience processing large amounts of data (moving, transforming, querying).
- Located in San Francisco or Bay Area (or willing to relocate).
**Nice-to-have:** Familiarity with healthcare terms (FHIR, HIE, IHE, EHR/EMR, NPI, TEFCA, ADT, HL7, HEDIS, RAF, SNOMED, LOINC, ICD-10).

## Tech Stack

- Frontend: **React**
- Backend: **Node.js**, **TypeScript**
- Cloud: **AWS** (ECS, Fargate, Lambda), **AWS CDK** (IaC)
- Data: **PostgreSQL**, **DynamoDB**, **S3**, **Snowflake**, **FHIR server**, **OpenSearch**

## Benefits

- Competitive equity + compensation
- Full family Platinum health insurance, dental, vision
- 401(k) + matching
- Flexible work from home or in-office
- Complimentary healthy lunches in-office
- Quarterly off-sites
- Company-provided MacBook
- Unlimited PTO

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