Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

Bamboo Health is the leader in Real-Time Care Intelligence™ solutions aimed at improving lives for everyone experiencing physical and behavioral health challenges. We are driven by our mission to empower clients to deliver seamless, high-quality and cost-effective care during pivotal moments to improve health outcomes. From coast to coast, Bamboo Health partners with all major retail pharmacy chains, 52 states and territories, 100% of the top 10 best hospitals and more than half of the country’s largest health plans to improve more than 1 billion patient encounters annually. Join us in improving lives during pivotal care moments!

Summary

We are actively hiring a full-time Staff Software Engineer who wants to craft something meaningful that will deeply impact people’s lives. Bamboo Health supports several customer facing web-based applications that facilitate care coordination. As a member of the team, you will work on all tiers of our application and can explore new technologies and approaches as we continue to expand our services. You should love to pursue tough problems and demonstrate strong technical judgment, constantly searching for elegant solutions while striving for excellence.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with engineering leadership to define and uphold high standards for system design, code quality, performance, scalability, and security across the team.
• Collaborate closely with product and cross-functional stakeholders to shape requirements, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet customer and business needs.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact features and systems, from concept through production.
• Own and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of existing systems, proactively identifying and addressing bottlenecks and risks.
• Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and fostering best practices, elevating the overall capability of the team.
• Influence architectural decisions across multiple services or teams, ensuring alignment with long-term platform strategy.
• Improve system observability through metrics, logging, alerting, and incident learnings.
• Explore opportunities to enhance workflows through AI or automation tools (e.g., document summarization, task routing, or data parsing).
• Stay curious about emerging AI tools and how they can streamline or enhance work within your function.

What Success Looks Like…

In 3 months…

• Become familiar with the details of our business domain, development process, and codebase.
• Ask questions and build healthcare industry knowledge.
• Build new capabilities and enhance existing ones based on the needs of our customers.
• Begin incorporating AI-supported tools into your day-to-day work—whether through analysis, documentation, or task management.

In 6 months…

• Consistently deliver on development expectations.
• Bring concepts to launch.
• Conduct code reviews for peers.
• Lead technical design discussions and influence implementation decisions beyond your immediate team.

In 12 months…

• Suggest ideas for technical enhancements.
• Be a strong partner to product.
• Own the technical direction of one or more core backend domains or services.
• Raise the engineering bar by improving patterns, tooling, and shared infrastructure.

What You Need

• BS in Computer Science, a relevant field of study, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of Java or similar object-oriented development.
• Relational database design and query, using both SQL and ORM.
• Experience with AWS or other public cloud environments.
• Modern Java frameworks (Spring Boot) preferred.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.
• Comfort using or learning AI-supported tools (e.g., ChatGPT, CoPilot, or role-specific tools) to improve daily workflows.
• A forward-thinking, curious mindset with an openness to experimenting with new technologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with sound judgment and creativity in designing solutions.
• Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly evolving environments.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote-first environment, ensuring high-quality virtual interactions with minimal distractions.
• The ability to travel periodically for work.

Technology We Use:

• Modern Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, and frameworks like Spring Boot and React/Redux
• Multiple services that communicate using both Kafka and REST APIs
• MySQL relational databases
• ElasticSearch and other document-oriented databases
• AWS cloud environment
• Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform for deployment

What You Get

• Join one of the most innovative healthcare technology companies in the country
• Have the autonomy to build something with an enthusiastically supportive team
• Learn from working at the highest levels and on the most strategic priorities of the company, including from world class investors and advisors
• Receive competitive compensation, including health, dental, vision and other benefits

Belonging at Bamboo

We Care. #BambooHealthValuesCare

Every human being has the right to the best possible healthcare. Our solutions enable healthcare professionals to see and treat every individual as a whole person by providing the right information, at the right time – regardless of physical, behavioral, or social barriers.

We’re a great place to work because we care. We continually seek to learn about our differences and ensure the unique identities and contributions of all employees are welcome, valued and celebrated.

Our commitment to making a positive impact starts by recognizing and leveraging our differences, building inclusive teams, cultivating a sense of belonging, combating biases, and actively removing barriers to equity.

Bamboo Health is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

To protect our applicants from fraudulent recruitment activity, we recommend that all applicants verify the validity of an interview and hiring process by visiting our website www.bamboohealth.com. All valid job postings will be listed on our careers page. Bamboo Health does not conduct interviews via text and will not request sensitive information such as banking details during the application process.

Key skills/competency

• Staff Software Engineer
• System Design
• Code Quality
• Performance
• Scalability
• Security
• Distributed Systems
• AWS
• Java
• Spring Boot