[Hiring] Full Stack Software Engineer @Cala Health

Role Description

We are seeking a versatile Full Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering team. Reporting to the Software Engineering Manager, this is a hands-on role requiring comfort and confidence in working across the entire stack, with a particular emphasis on user-facing frontend experiences.

• Build delightful, performant, and accessible user experiences for our consumer-facing applications across Web and Mobile using React and React Native.
• Contribute across the stack, owning features end-to-end from frontend implementation through backend integration and experimentation.
• Develop and maintain robust REST APIs using Python frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Design and manage databases, including relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB or MongoDB.
• Write well-tested, maintainable code across frontend, backend, and integration layers.
• Participate in technical discussions around system design, performance tradeoffs, and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Design) to gather requirements, design solutions, and deliver high-quality applications.
• Contribute to technical decision-making regarding architecture, libraries, and tools to optimize performance and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3 to 6 years of professional software engineering experience in building production systems across both frontend and backend.
• Strong proficiency in Python; hands-on experience with the FastAPI REST framework & Database ORM’s.
• Highly proficient in JavaScript/TypeScript; hands-on experience building modern frontend applications with React.
• Must have a strong grasp of HTML5 and CSS3.
• Experience working with relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Proficiency in writing and executing unit tests using frameworks like pytest, React Testing Library, or similar tools.
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini) into production applications.
• Strong familiarity with AWS services for cloud-native application development.

Requirements

• An eye for design details and a passion for User Experience (UX); ability to bridge the gap between design mockups and technical implementation.
• Hands-on knowledge of DevOps tools, specifically Terraform and Docker, for managing containerized environments.
• Familiarity with the "AI Stack" beyond APIs—such as vector databases (Pinecone, pgvector), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures, or local model inference (Ollama).
• Experience in automated testing at multiple levels (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Experience with Hardware-Software integrations using services like AWS IoT.
• Experience in Healthcare & SaMD applications within a regulated healthcare environment.

Physical Demands

• Ability to sit or stand at a desk for prolonged periods of time.
• Ability to operate a computer keyboard, mouse and other related equipment.
• Close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus are required to read code, analyze interfaces and visually identify defects.