Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

Company Overview

Function Health is the AI operating system for health, designed to empower people to live 100 healthy years. We are transforming how individuals understand, measure, and improve their health through proactive, data-driven insights into human biology. Recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2024 and backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Function serves hundreds of thousands of members seeking greater control over their health.

Through advanced diagnostics, deep biomarker testing, longitudinal data, and AI-enabled insights, Function provides actionable intelligence that helps members improve both the quality and length of their lives.

Following our recent $298M Series B funding round, we are entering our next phase of growth. We seek world-class talent who believe in our mission to positively impact global health, demonstrate a strong bias toward action, and embrace a growth mindset. Function offers a collaborative, dynamic environment where we are building the future of healthcare every day.

Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Staff Software Engineer to design, develop, and implement software solutions that enable members to access and understand their health data in real time. This role is instrumental in leading engineering efforts, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and reliability across our systems.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with hands-on development experience, strong leadership capabilities, and a passion for revolutionizing health technology. You will help shape our platform as we scale and influence how users engage with their health information.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Development

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable, robust, and maintainable software solutions.
• Balance hands-on coding responsibilities with engineering leadership and technical oversight.
• Establish engineering excellence and ensure systems are built for long-term scalability and performance.
• Drive high-impact projects from conception through delivery, aligned with company objectives.
• Solve complex technical challenges and continuously improve platform capabilities.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and apply innovative approaches to advance healthcare technology.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, Design, Data, Operations, and other stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and clarity in engineering decisions.
• Translate complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences and ensure alignment across teams.

Qualifications & Skills

Required Experience

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience within startup environments.
• Demonstrated success leading complex software development initiatives while remaining actively involved in coding.
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale systems.

Technical Expertise

• Extensive software development experience with strong proficiency in Python.
• Familiarity with AWS, Google Cloud, and Docker.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles and best practices, including:
• Agile methodologies
• Test-driven development (TDD)
• Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to simplify complex systems.
• Ability to design and build scalable, resilient applications.

Healthcare & Mission Alignment

• Passion for leveraging technology to improve healthcare and empower individuals to manage their health.
• Commitment to innovation and improving health outcomes through technology.

Remote Work & Learning

• Experience working effectively in distributed, remote environments.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across teams.
• Continuous learner who challenges assumptions and embraces innovation and improvement.

To Be a Strong Fit, You Also Need

Bias Toward Action

• Ability to take initiative, operate effectively in ambiguity, make decisions with incomplete information, and drive projects forward.

Entrepreneurial Mindset

• Adaptability to changing business needs.
• Experience building and optimizing systems and processes.
• Ability to thrive in fast-moving, evolving environments.

Communication & Collaboration

• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

Continuous Improvement

• Openness to feedback.
• Commitment to personal and professional growth.
• Willingness to challenge assumptions and improve existing systems.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

Data & Engineering

• Data engineering experience involving large-scale data management, processing, analysis, and insight generation.
• Advanced proficiency with:
• Python
• React
• React Native
• GCP
• Postgres

AI & Machine Learning

• Experience building and deploying machine learning services.
• Ability to apply AI and machine learning to user-facing products and platform intelligence.

Startup Experience

• Experience as a founder, early engineering hire, or startup technical leader.

Health Technology Experience

• Familiarity with health technologies such as:
• Oura
• Whoop
• Apple Watch
• Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs)

Key Projects & Initiatives

AI-Powered Health Analysis Tools

Lead or contribute to AI-powered health analysis tools that generate personalized insights, recommendations, and predictions from health data. Responsibilities include optimizing algorithms, refining data models, and ensuring scalability, accuracy, and reliability.

Health Data Integration

Enhance integration across diverse health data sources, including wearable devices, medical records, and related systems. Ensure secure, seamless, and efficient data flow that enables comprehensive health insights and a holistic view of member health.

These initiatives represent only a portion of the impactful work available at Function. Contributions made in this role will directly influence the future of health technology and empower individuals to better understand and manage their health.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

Empowerment

• Freedom to select projects aligned with your interests and expertise.
• High levels of autonomy and trust.
• Minimal micromanagement.

Collaborative & Innovative Culture

• Fast-moving, highly collaborative environment.
• Strong emphasis on innovation, experimentation, and execution.
• Encouragement of creativity and new ideas.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible working hours.
• Dynamic work environment focused on innovation and impact.

Join Function Health and help revolutionize healthcare while improving the lives of thousands of people worldwide.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Function celebrates diversity and is committed to building an inclusive workforce. We provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, gender identity, ancestry, religion, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other occupationally irrelevant characteristic.

Important Notice

Legitimate communications from Function Health will always come from an email address ending in @functionhealth.com. Function Health will never request banking information, payment, or other financial information during the hiring process.

Please be cautious of communications from other email domains, instant messaging platforms, or unsolicited calls. If you have concerns regarding the legitimacy of a communication, contact [email protected] directly.