Senior Software Engineer

Akido is rebuilding the healthcare experience from the ground up. Through early interventions designed around social determinants of health (SDoH), world-class care focused on chronic disease, and human-centered technology, we believe we can build a healthcare model that allows for all patients to live their fullest lives. We are a fast-growing, impact-focused, Y Combinator company created out of the University of Southern California’s D-Health Lab with the idea that empowering government, healthcare, and nonprofit services with population-based data could help usher in a new era of preventive public health. Today we are building a full stack medical network that leverages our predictive capabilities to provide a frictionless experience for both our patients and care providers. 

The Opportunity

Big things are happening at Akido — and we’re just getting started! Our tight-knit team is passionate about transforming healthcare by turning data into powerful actions that change lives. We thrive on collaboration, innovation, and the energy that comes from solving real-world healthcare and public health challenges together. At Akido, every idea counts, every voice matters, and every day brings a new opportunity to learn, grow, and make a lasting impact. 

 

What you will do: 

• Design, build and test new features based on our technology and business needs within an agile environment where we embrace frequent releases and quality code. 

• Provide strong technical leadership in areas of design, architecture, quality and developer productivity 

• Tech lead projects and help define the work streams required to deliver projects and features 

• Improve testing and tooling for our apps and services 

• Collaborate with various product and technical team members and leaders 

• Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code. 

• Optimize apps and services for performance, scalability and user experience 

• Develop and maintain reusable code and libraries 

• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge 

• Support your teammates by continuing to learn and grow 

 

What you bring: 

• Minimum 7 years' experience in software engineering including 4+ years of experience with full stack architecture, distributed systems and microservices  

• A product-centric mindset and ability to challenge product owners and teammates to improve in all areas of product engineering. 

• Desire to write feature code as well as infrastructure as code for builds and deployments 

• Strong quality and test automation bias. Attention to detail and help teammates deliver polished products 

• A desire to move fast and ship high quality code.  

• Experience including major contributions in developing multiple microservices, preferably as a tech lead, having built them from scratch and worked through all phases of product development from planning and design to execution and release 

• Ability to work effectively with remote teammates 

• Passion for software engineering, clean code and strong sense of ownership and accountability 

• Experience mentoring engineers with a history of presenting team tech talks on multiple development topics 

• Must Have: Multiple years of industry experience: 

• • Top notch communication skills 

• • A mission-oriented mindset and a strong desire to continuously learn and improve 

• • Experience developing RESTful APIs and integrating them with frontend applications 

• • Experience with unit and API test automation 

• • Hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.) 

• • Microservices integration with Kafka