Staff Full Stack Engineer

Who we are

Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.

What we’re looking for...

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join our Applications (App) team, which delivers the core web and embedded applications our customers use every day. The ideal candidate is passionate about building intuitive, reliable, and scalable user-facing products that empower healthcare providers to access and act on critical patient data.

As a member of the App team, you’ll work on everything from React-based user interfaces to the APIs that power them. You’ll contribute to the design and development of full-stack features, collaborate closely with product, design, and backend teams, and ensure the scalability and maintainability of our applications as we grow. You enjoy thinking about the full flow of data from UI interactions to API design to backend systems, and are comfortable owning services end to end. Our stack includes React, TypeScript, GraphQL and RESTful APIs, and AWS services like ECS, Lambda, and DynamoDB. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, values clean and maintainable code, and is eager to shape how users interact with the future of healthcare data.

As part of our team, you will...:
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Build and operate web applications and the APIs that power them

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Collaborate with non-technical members to iteratively prototype and develop new customer features

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Work across Engineering teams to maintain and improve shared AWS infrastructure

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Grow projects from design to betas and upgrade betas to use at scale

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Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the teams systems

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Guide all team members to follow good engineering practices

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Partner with product managers and outside stakeholders to align technical strategy with business priorities

You’re a good fit because you…:
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Are scrappy and you know when to move fast

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Can work across the tech stack, from frontend CSS bugs to backend AWS infrastructure. We totally get that you may be more comfortable in one area over another – we are looking for versatility, not perfection

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Care about usability and the polish that makes an interface delightful.

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Seek user feedback and use analytics driven decisions to improve the overall product experience.

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Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production

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Are excited ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare

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Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup

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Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems across teams, including the AI team

And it would be awesome if you were...:
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Experienced in building and scaling high quality consumer-facing UIs

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Familiar with our tech stack [React, Tailwind CSS, Typescript, Go, Python, REST, GraphQL, Terraform, AWS, Docker]

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Experience with the tools that support our work [Amplitude, Sigma, Auth0, Metaplane, DataDog, Claude Code, Atlassian]

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Knowledgeable about application security & HITRUST compliance

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Experienced in working with HIPAA-compliant APIs

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Familiar with the FHIR R4 Standards and/or TEFCA standards

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Optimistic about how AI can enhance products and assist in building them

We will offer you…

• Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity
• Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
• Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)

Please Note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.

We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you've interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.