Senior Software Engineer

Location: Hybrid/ Remote

Openings: 5

Experience: 0 - 2Years

Qualification: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science or a related technical field

Key Responsibilities:

Backend Development & APIs

• Build microservices that provide REST APIs to power web frontends.
• Design clean, reusable, and scalable backend code meeting enterprise security standards.
• Conceptualize and implement optimized data storage solutions for high-performance systems.

Deployment & Cloud

• Deploy microservices using a common deployment framework on AWS and GCP.
• Inspect and optimize server code for speed, security, and scalability.

Frontend Integration

• Work on modern front-end frameworks to ensure seamless integration with back-end services.
• Develop reusable libraries for both frontend and backend codebases.

AI Awareness (Preferred)

• Understand how AI/ML or Generative AI can enhance enterprise software workflows.
• Collaborate with AI specialists to integrate AI-driven features where applicable.

Quality & Collaboration

• Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality.
• Collaborate with teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies for rapid and structured delivery.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), Webpack, Mocha, Jest
• Experience with recent frontend frameworks – React.js, Redux.js, Node.js (or similar)
• Deep understanding of HTML5, CSS3, SASS/LESS, and Content Management Systems
• Ability to design and implement RESTful APIs and understand their impact on client-side applications
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) – deployment, storage, and scalability
• Experience working with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Strong backend expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot is a plus but not mandatory

Be a part of the team building the future of healthcare!

About the company

Firefly Health is building a revolutionary new type of comprehensive health care and coverage, powered by a relationship-driven care team, a trusted virtual and in-person clinical network, and our proprietary technology platform.

Founded by experienced clinicians and technology leaders, Firefly Health is on a mission to deliver clinical and financial health through joyful, always-there care. We are flipping the script on what it means to be a health plan and actually providing a true health benefit to members.

We are intensely focused on optimizing the physical + mental + financial wellbeing of those who want (and deserve) something better than the status quo. If you are ready to roll up your sleeves and take on our audacious mission, we would love to hear from you.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a high growth environment to join our core engineering team. This team works side-by-side with our clinical, operations, and product teams to change the experience of healthcare.

The engineering team’s goal is to create an integrated, intelligent platform that proactively manages healthcare at scale and makes high-quality benefits accessible and engaging for all. You’ll help power a platform that not only serves members, providers, and employers, but also leverages advanced technologies to drive efficiency and better outcomes.

Our tech stack includes React, React Native, Typescript, Python, Django, Postgres, Docker, and AWS. It’s a great modern foundation for tackling the challenges ahead of us.

You Will

• Partner with our 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 world class care accessible and engaging for members
• 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

You’d Be a Good Fit If

• You have 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 Haves

• Experience with the specific technologies in our stack
• Experience working with machine learning models, agentic workflows, or automation in the healthcare space
• Experience overcoming the messiness of healthcare data
• Experience working with data-exchange and standardizing disparate data feeds

Job Description

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer. You'll be part of a cross-functional team that's responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks, and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

Responsibilities

Work with development teams and product managers in agile methodology

Design client-side and server-side architecture

Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design

Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

Write effective APIs

Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency

Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software

Create security and data protection settings

Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design

Qualifications Skills

Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.

Experience in developing web applications using Node.js, React.js, MySQL, AWS services.

Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e. g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery).

Knowledge of multiple JavaScript frameworks (e. g. React, Angular, Node.js ).

Familiarity with databases (e. g. MySQL, Mongo DB), web servers (e. g. Apache), and UI/UX design.

Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

• Experience range – 8 to 12 years

• Good understanding of software engineering practices, SDLC.

• Ability to provide elegant and efficient design solutions
• Strong knowledge on design patterns
• Effective interpersonal skills and collaborative management style to include teamwork and team building ability
• Should have knowledge on API integration mulesoft, Apache Camel tools
• Strong knowledge on providing microservices architecture

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Research, programs, plans, designs, and administers building projects for clients by applying knowledge of architectural design and building materials.
• Produces conceptual plans, renderings, and documents.
• Assists in research and coordination of materials and products for project specifications

Skills Required:

Primary Skills:

• Java, Spring Boot/ Node.js- Backend
• HTML, CSS, JS, React/ Angular- Frontend
• SQL
• Mobile Application Development

Secondary Skills:

• Microservices, Design Patterns
• Cloud- AWS, Azure, GCP
• DevOps tools- Jenkins, GIT Pipeline, etc.- Anyone should be fine
• Maven

Technical Skills

Front-end:

Mandatory Technical Skills: ReactJS, ES6, Context API, GraphQL, Redux, Payment Gateway
Not Mandatory skills: Redux saga, Gatsby, Git Pipeline, Deployment on Cloud AWS/Azure/Google

Back-end:

Mandatory Technical Skills: NodeJS, ES6, Express, Apollo Server, Send Grid Email, Twilio SMS, Payment Gateway,
Exception Management, Error Loggin, API Developement, API Security, PostGreSQL/MSSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/CouchDB
Not Mandatory: Docker Deployment, Git Pipeline, Auto Deployment, AWS/Azure/Google, NestJS

Job roles and responsibilities

• Design and implement key components of our technical infrastructure, including services supporting payments, lottery results, user management, and game mechanics
• Design and implement user-facing features for Web, iOS, and Android applications
• Take ownership of mission-critical functionality that is consumed by our mobile, web, and internal applications
• Work as a team with your peers, collaborating on architecture, mentoring teammates, and pushing our entire stack forward
• Stay up to date on the latest innovations in our industry and in our tech stack
• Integrating with and managing third-party APIs as well as designing and developing APIs for partners and peers
• Work with the product team to keep the roadmap realistic, on track, and groomed
• Capable of writing technical specs and documenting work
• Management of Jira, Git, AWS, Heroku, and other platform systems

Competencies and Skills Required

1. Requires excellent analytical, problem-solving, and good communications skills
2. Must be able to work effectively with business stakeholders
3. Able to understand requirements and implement complete business solutions for our industry
4. Must possess strong customer service skills
5. Excellent written and verbal communication
6. Must have excellent interpersonal skills

• understanding of the front-end and back-end processes;
• ability to work with HTML / CSS;
• ability to work with databases;
• understanding of programming templates and architecture design guidelines;
• profiling and optimizing applications.

• Design, develop and maintain features, services, products that are part of a company
• Own delivery of said features and services
• Own success of the products by tracking its lifecycle with customers
• Build systems that scale horizontally
• Write automated tests to ensure code quality
• Work with customers to build a product roadmap
• Work with sales & marketing to sell your product to end-users
• Work as an integral part of an agile software development team to build features end-to-end
• Support those features in the company production environment by participating in an on-call rotation

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience working on teams to develop and deploy web or mobile applications
• Expertise with Javascript and NodeJS; knowledge of frameworks such as React.js is a big plus
• Experience writing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Expertise with data modeling
• Proficiency with git and Github workflows
• Expertise with test-driven development and automated testing
• Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL datastore
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills and fluent English
• Open to learn and work on new technologies