Reimagining health equity through proactive social care
Software Engineer - Full Stack
Location
Massachusetts
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Job Description
** Candidates considered must reside in the United States**
About Activate Care:
At Activate Care, we’re on a mission to improve health equity and drive improved health outcomes across the country. Our Community Care Record platform enables healthcare and community organizations to coordinate care for populations challenged with health-related social needs. Path Assist is our tech-enabled community health worker program for HRSN utilizing an evidence-based, structured intervention. Our goal is simple: increase health confidence, improve self-efficacy, and reduce inappropriate healthcare spending.
About the Role:
Our platform helps healthcare providers and community organizations coordinate care for individuals facing complex medical and social challenges. The systems we build support real-time collaboration across health records, referral networks, and community services.
As a Software Engineer at Activate Care, you will help design and build the tools that power this coordination. You will work alongside experienced engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver high-quality software that directly supports organizations improving outcomes for vulnerable populations.
You’ll contribute across the full development lifecycle—from designing solutions and writing production code to improving system quality and participating in technical discussions within your team.
Responsibilities:
- Implement well-specified features with guidance from senior engineers.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that supports system reliability and scalability.
- Contribute to responsive web applications and progressive web apps.
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team ceremonies.
- Write and maintain automated tests to ensure system reliability.
- Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver user-focused solutions.
- Document code, specifications, and workflows for clarity and reusability.
- Learn and apply prompt engineering, AI-assisted dev tools, and automation frameworks to accelerate productivity.
Job Requirements
- Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum of a High School Diploma with an equivalent of 4+ years Software Engineering experience, or a Bachelor's Degree in a related field is preferred.
- 3+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer, healthcare experience is preferred.
- Expereince working effectively with Agile/Scrum teams.
- Ability to work effectively in Agile/Scrum teams.
- Advanced ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non technical stakeholders.
- Willingness and ability to learn new technologies, adapt to feedback and continuously improve technical skills
- Core Technical Skills
- Experience building applications using Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sinatra, or Node.js/Express.
- Frontend development experience with React and modern JavaScript.
- Ability to create responsive web apps and PWAs using HTML/CSS.
- Experience developing and integrating RESTful APIs and web services.
- Familiarity with relational or document databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or EdgeDB.
- Experience with background job processing systems such as ActiveJob, Sidekiq, or Resque.
- Productivity & AI-Enhanced Development
- Experience using Cursor, MCP agents, LLMs, or Ollama.
- Strong understanding of prompt engineering concepts.
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or CircleCI.
- Familiarity with development automation and workflow optimization.
- Software Engineering Principles
- Strong understanding of separation of concerns, code quality, and maintainable architecture.
- Experience designing and implementing well-tested features.
- Familiarity with multiple quality domains such as functionality, performance, and reliability.
- Experience with testing frameworks such as Cypress, MiniTest, or other automated testing approaches.
- Experience working with Git workflows, pull requests, and collaborative development practices.
- Nice to Have:
- Experience maintaining Ruby on Rails applications in production environments.
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes/Helm.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices (OWASP, Brakeman) and handling sensitive healthcare data (HIPAA awareness).
- Prior experience working on healthcare platforms or workflow automation systems.
- Diversity & Inclusion:
- At Activate Care, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military, and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Activate Care believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
- The organization is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If you require an accommodation to participate in the interview process, please let our team know at the time of scheduling.
- The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas at this time.
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