Modern Health: Staff Software Engineer: Growth Engineering — Remote - US

About Modern Health

Modern Health provides an employer mental-health benefits platform. Its employer introduction describes individual support, group experiences and self-guided digital resources available within one service. The platform is intended to help people find appropriate support at different points in their mental-health journey. Its business combines access to care with the technology and engagement work needed to make those benefits usable, connecting employers' benefits programmes with the people seeking information, preventive support or treatment.

The position and its setting

Modern Health lists Staff Software Engineer: Growth Engineering in Remote - US, under reference 8735100002. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering
• Employer listing date: 27 August 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• This includes owning the engineering behind eligibility processing, identity and access, the client configuration platform, and support of our reporting platform
• Collectively, this is the engineering core of how Modern Health onboards, authenticates, and scales technical access for every client and member globally
• You'll be expected to have (or quickly build) deep familiarity with our tech stack and product domain so you can move fast without First-derivative learning curves slowing down the team
• We expect an engineer at this level to be ramped up and owning critical parts of roadmap development within 30 days of onboarding
• This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii
• Truly full stack product development with a slight lean towards the backend
• Building: and maintain GraphQL APIs powered by Python services (Django, Flask)
• Implementation: web and mobile user experiences using React & React Native
• Engineer efficient and reusable systems that drive complex web and mobile applications
• Maintenance: HIPAA and GDPR compliance and general security through best practice implementation
• Independently write and execute technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) for large, ambiguous, cross-domain projects, negotiating scope with product along the way
• Leadership: ambiguous or large projects, working collaboratively with design, product, cross-functional partners, and other engineers to deliver a cohesive adaptive care experience
• Serve as the directly responsible individual from engineering on roadmap commitments, owning launch timelines, decomposing work, and coordinating dependencies across teams
• Write and maintain technical documentation, unit tests, and integration tests
• Be a thought leader in strategic engineering and tech initiatives, and contribute to cross-team engineering forums
• Leadership: and contribute to cross-team engineering forums and on cross-team engineering projects

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 8+ years of relevant software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages
• At least 2+ years of production experience in full-stack web development, including Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React Native, and React
• Demonstrated high ownership: you independently decompose very ambiguous problems into component parts, propose technically elegant strategies, and can estimate and deliver against them with confidence
• A track record of writing technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) that hold up under cross-functional scrutiny, and driving solutioning for initiatives that span multiple domains or teams
• Experience building and maintaining GraphQL and/or REST APIs
• Experience scaling relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and writing performant queries
• Ability to work cross-functionally and be trusted as a technical partner by product, design, and other engineering teams, including navigating disagreement and bringing people along on a technical direction
• Written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment with stakeholders outside your immediate team
• Experience mentoring and effectively working with a distributed development team
• Experience leading and architecting large-scale projects as a technical thought leader
• Passion for building something to improve the lives of others
• Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants must be able to maintain work authorization for the duration of employment without employer sponsorship or employer-provided training plans or attestations (including, for example, the Form I-983 required for STEM OPT)

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Deep familiarity with our tech stack (or a directly comparable one) strongly preferred; expect to start meaningfully contributing within your first 30 days
• Authorization protocols such as SSO SAML, OIDC, JWT
• AI/LLM-powered product features (e.g., recommendation systems, conversational or agentic experiences)
• Experience: maturely leveraging AI in your development lifecycle to improve quality and speed for yourself and other engineers
• Experience: SQL, bash, or other scripting languages to facilitate debugging or developer-experience contributions
• Working with AWS or other cloud platforms
• Working at a high-growth startup
• Working in Health Tech or HR

Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• Work arrangement: Remote
• Advertised location: Remote - US

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• Fundamentals:
• Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance
• High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
• Flexible Time Off
• Company-wide Collective Pause Days
• Family Support:
• Parental Leave Policy
• Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
• Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter
• Professional Development:

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Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Modern Health

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Modern Health posting below and match the title and reference 8735100002.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the Remote - US position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• SQL
• AWS
• REST APIs
• APIs
• AI/ML
• LLMs
• React
• Docker
• AI