Senior Backend Engineer
Posted on August 11, 2025 (2 days ago)
About August Health
At August Health, our mission is to empower the essential work of caring for our elders.
We achieve this by providing a modern operating platform and electronic health record (EHR) that enables senior living operators to deliver high-quality care with confidence.
Caregivers are the heart of senior living communities, embodying care, compassion, and well-being. Yet, they face increasing challenges015 higher resident acuity, complex workflows, and staffing shortages. At August Health, we build tools that simplify their tasks, eliminate inefficiencies, and provide the insights they need to focus on what truly matters015 caring for residents.
At August, we strive to live our values each day, in every interaction with our customers and with each other.
- Be responsible 013 leave things better than you found them
- Take ownership 013 be decisive and take action
- Be ambitious 013 build something great
- Keep an open mindset 013 communicate candidly and welcome new ideas
- Be humble 013 celebrate each others019 successes and learn from our mistakes
- Stay positive 013 assume best intent
About the role
We're looking for an experienced backend-end developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex applications.
Our development team is a small group of very capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults and the challenges of caregiving into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.
Technologies we use: Scala, Play Framework, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Postgres. You don019t need to have specific experience in all of these, but the ability 6 self-motivation to learn them is a must.
Key qualifications
- 7+ years professional experience as a software engineer familiar with shipping thoughtfully built APIs
- Experience working in engineering organizations and familiarity with product focused software development cycles
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment that9s full of ambiguity - experience balancing tradeoffs to make complex decisions where there is no 6lsquo;right6rsquo; answer
- Good communication and personal skills; ability to interact and work well with the team
- Interest in development of company culture and its reflection in our engineering practices
- Ability 6 desire to mentor other engineers
About our team
Our team brings together deep expertise in technology, healthcare, and company-building. We6rsquo;ve led teams at Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe, co-founded and exited multiple companies, shipped products used by hundreds of millions of users, and managed clinical teams caring for thousands of patients.
Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we are partnering with some of the largest senior care organizations in the U.S. to transform the future of senior living.
We offer market competitive compensation based on experience and ability, including significant equity option grants. Other benefits include excellent health, dental, vision coverage, 401K, One Medical, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc memberships.
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