Firefly Health is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our core team to build an integrated, intelligent platform that proactively manages healthcare at scale. You will partner with clinical, operations, and product teams to design and build the technology underlying our alternate health plan and care experiences.
What You'll Do
- Partner with clinical, operations, and product teams to design and build technology underlying our alternate health plan and care experiences.
- Build beautiful mobile apps, web applications, and APIs that make high-quality health benefits and care accessible and engaging for members.
- Develop and refine agentic workflows using machine learning models to power automation and intelligence across our platform.
- Integrate with third-party vendors and health tech innovations to expand our platform’s functionality, data sources, and member services.
- Work on a member-facing platform and clinical intelligence platform used by our care teams to deliver efficient, quality care.
- Own projects from ideation to release, influencing both product and technical decisions.
- Contribute to technical architecture and best practices across the team.
- Help recruit highly capable engineers to the team from diverse backgrounds.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience writing production code across the stack.
- You resonate with our mission to deliver clinical and financial health through joyful, always there, care.
- You love learning and unstructured problem-solving.
- You enjoy and take ownership in designing, building, and shipping features end-to-end.
- You approach challenges with humility and resilience.
- You strive to build collaborative engineering cultures through thoughtful code review, documentation, mentorship, and teamwork.
Nice to Have
- Experience with the specific technologies in our stack (React, React Native, Typescript, Python, Django, Postgres, Docker, AWS).
- Experience working with machine learning models, agentic workflows, or automation in the healthcare space.
- Experience with the messiness of healthcare data and ETL work.
Technical Stack
- React
- React Native
- Typescript
- Python
- Django
- Postgres
- Docker
- AWS
Team & Environment
You will join the core engineering team working side-by-side with clinical, operations, and product teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $150,000 to $180,000 annually
- Health insurance
- 401k
- Bonus
Work Mode
This role follows a hybrid work model and is based in Watertown, Massachusetts.
Firefly is an equal opportunity employer. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives and are committed to building and sustaining an inclusive workplace culture.



