Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a seasoned software engineer who is passionate about creating next-generation healthcare software that will dramatically improve the lives of patients, clinicians, and caregivers. This person will write critical, significant portions of the code behind a brand new software product.

The ideal candidate has experience building SaaS and/or Cloud Native software for a regulated industry. Additionally, the Senior Software Engineer will bring expertise in one or more technologies including React, Type Script, Go, Ent, gRPC, Twirp, and/or AWS technologies like Event Bridge and Aurora. Sharing knowledge and mentoring members of a growing team will be key.

The Senior Software Engineer should enjoy working in an Agile collaborative environment with product managers, designers, external partners, and other engineers to build a high quality, consumer-oriented product from the ground up.

About Tendo

Make an impact—join our team! We’re a fast-growing, mission-driven company building a culture that enables teams and individuals to thrive.

Our team-driven culture and rapid growth have earned us recognition as one of Forbes’ Top Startup Employers for both 2024 and 2025. Led by an experienced and proven team, we live by our values and are always on the hunt for motivated people with diverse experiences and backgrounds to help us improve the care journey for patients, clinicians, and caregivers by creating software that provides seamless, intuitive, and user-friendly experiences.

Job Location

Tendo has hubs in San Francisco, CA;
San Diego, CA;
Salt Lake City, UT;
Chicago, IL;
Nashville, TN; and Philadelphia, PA. Candidates may be located in any one of our hub locations.

Responsibilities

• Drive all phases of software development including requirements analysis, architecture/design, implementation, documentation, testing, and debugging for a large consumer-facing application with significant daily usage.

• Collaborate with product owners and designers to understand user needs and translate wireframes and other requirements into technical requirements and detailed architecture.

• Participate in Agile processes including sprint planning, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives.

• Learn and use Go and potentially other back end languages, along with technologies and frameworks like gRPC/Twirp, Ent, and various AWS technologies, to produce, modify, and maintain APIs, microservices, event streams/queues, and similar.

• Write automated tests for all code and use Behavior Driven Development practices.

• Write infrastructure as code using Serverless Framework.

• Perform code reviews.

• Provide expertise in Web, API, database, and/or cloud technologies and frameworks, including React, Type Script, Go, gRPC, Twirp, Ent, Serverless Framework, and/or AWS technologies like Event Bridge and Aurora.

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and subject matter expertise to other team members.

• Create technical documentation describing architecture decisions.

• Support and implement the latest standards in securing data to meet HIPAA requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (BS/BA) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar major OR equivalent professional experience or software development certification (including bootcamp).

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.

• Professional experience developing Cloud Native applications/products on AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred) OR professional experience with Go/Golang OR professional experience with React + Type Script.

• Ability to communicate designs and work with product managers, engineers, and QA to clarify and prune requirements.

• Professional experience with modern version control systems (e.g., Git) and tools (e.g., Bitbucket, Git Hub, Git Lab).

Nice to Have

• Experience working in a startup environment.

• Knowledge of the healthcare industry and HL7 standards like FHIR.

• Experience writing infrastructure as code using Serverless Framework.

• Experience with graph data modeling (i.e., using Ent).

• Experience with event streaming frameworks (i.e., Event Bridge).

• Experience with gRPC/Twirp.

• AWS certification(s).

Base Salary Range

$127,500-$172,500

Benefits…