About the role
What will you do at Modern Health?
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience to own and scale the critical backend systems that power client launches and member access at Modern Health. This is a high-leverage IC leadership role for someone with a high degree of independence who can lead complex projects end-to-end while collaborating with a senior staff engineer on an ambitious 18-month to 2-year roadmap.
This is a role for someone with deep architectural knowledge who can take a system from its current scale to 50x, partnering closely with product and internal operations stakeholders. A strong product sense and the ability to flush out requirements, edge cases, and use cases cross-functionally is essential. We expect meaningful contributions within your first 30 days.
What will you be doing?
Independently owning and executing large-scale engineering projects across eligibility processing, identity, and client configuration systems Designing and building scalable backend architectures to support 50x data growth across Modern Health's platform Partnering closely with product managers and internal operations teams to define requirements, use cases, and edge cases for complex initiatives Collaborating with a senior staff engineer to sequence and deliver against a multi-year growth engineering roadmap Mentoring and guiding more junior engineers on the team through technical leadership and code collaboration SALARY BANDS HAVE GEO TIERS: Comp: $137K–$203K base (for Tier 1) + equity.
Remote work eligible within the US, excluding Hawaii. Zone 1 Base Pay: $161,000 - $203,000 USD Zone 2 Base Pay: $161,000 - $203,000 USD Zone 3 Base Pay: $145,000 - $183,000 USD Zone 4 Base Pay: $137,000 - $172,000 USD Salary ranges vary by GEOGRAPHIC AREA/TIERS.
OUR COMP GEO ZONES Zone 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City Metro Zone 2: All other California locations and Seattle, WA Zone 3: All other New York locations, All other Washington locations, Washington DC, Austin,TX, CT, IL, MA, NH, NJ, OR, RI, VT Zone 4: All other Texas locations, AL, AK, AZ, AR, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, WV, WI, WY
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