# Staff Software Engineer
**Company:** [Function Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/function-health)
**Location:** Remote
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, React, React Native, Python, REST APIs, Design Systems, State Management, Wcag Accessibility, Frontend Testing, CI/CD, GCP, Postgres, Data Visualization, Ai/Ml Integration
**Posted:** 2026-06-15
> Lead development of member-facing web and mobile experiences for a health tech platform. Own full-stack features from UI through APIs, drive frontend architecture, and mentor engineers.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities

### Frontend & Product Development Leadership
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of modern web and mobile applications.
- Build intuitive, performant, and highly polished user experiences using React and React Native.
- Establish frontend best practices around component architecture, state management, testing, accessibility, and performance.
- Drive the evolution of our design system and shared UI component libraries.
- Maintain a high bar for product quality, usability, and engineering excellence.

### Full Stack Ownership
- Own complex features end-to-end, from user interface development through backend services and APIs.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and data teams to transform ideas into exceptional customer experiences.
- Design and implement scalable APIs and services that power our member-facing applications.
- Contribute to technical decisions across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and data systems.

### User Experience & Performance
- Champion frontend performance, responsiveness, accessibility, and reliability.
- Optimize application performance across web and mobile platforms.
- Leverage analytics and user feedback to continuously improve product experiences.
- Ensure members can easily understand and interact with complex health information.

### Technical Leadership
- Provide architectural guidance and technical mentorship across the engineering organization.
- Lead high-impact initiatives from concept through launch.
- Drive engineering standards, code quality, and best practices.
- Help scale engineering processes and systems to support rapid company growth.

### Innovation & Collaboration
- Partner with Product, Design, Clinical, and Data teams to deliver impactful features.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and development approaches to improve product quality and team velocity.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, experimentation, and learning.

## Qualifications & Skills

### Required Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience building customer-facing products.
- Proven success leading complex technical initiatives in high-growth or startup environments.
- Experience balancing hands-on development with technical leadership and mentorship.

### Frontend Expertise
- Deep expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend development.
- Extensive experience with React and modern frontend architectures.
- Strong understanding of design systems, component libraries, state management, accessibility (WCAG), performance optimization, frontend testing frameworks, and modern build and deployment tooling.
- Experience building highly interactive, data-rich user interfaces.

### Mobile Development
- Understanding of mobile architecture, performance optimization, and platform-specific considerations.

### Full Stack Development
- Experience designing and building APIs and backend services.
- Strong proficiency with Python or similar backend technologies.
- Ability to comfortably work across the entire application stack.
- Experience integrating third-party services and external data platforms.

### Product & User-Centric Thinking
- Strong product instincts and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business impact.
- Experience collaborating closely with Product and Design teams.

### Engineering Excellence
- Strong understanding of agile development methodologies, test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, software architecture principles, and scalable system design.
- Commitment to writing maintainable, high-quality code.

### Bias Toward Action
- Ability to make progress in ambiguous environments.
- Strong ownership mentality and willingness to tackle difficult problems.
- Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.

### Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Adaptable and resourceful in fast-moving environments.
- Excited to build processes, systems, and products from the ground up.
- Thrives in rapidly evolving business and technical landscapes.

### Communication & Collaboration
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong collaborator across Engineering, Product, Design, and Operations teams.

### Continuous Learning
- Passion for learning new technologies and approaches.
- Willingness to challenge assumptions and improve existing systems.
- Growth mindset focused on continuous improvement.

## Nice-to-Have Skills & Experience
- Advanced expertise with React, React Native, and TypeScript.
- Experience building large-scale consumer applications.
- Experience developing data visualization and analytics experiences.
- Familiarity with GCP, Postgres, and modern web architecture patterns.
- Experience integrating AI or machine learning capabilities into user-facing products.
- Startup experience as an early engineering hire, founder, or technical leader.
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