The Role
Join Color Health as a New Grad Software Engineer, contributing to projects involving AI, web development, and high-quality code to improve cancer care.
Summary Generated by Built In
Color Health is revolutionizing cancer care with the nation’s first Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, physician-led multidisciplinary care across all 50 states. Our innovative, guideline-based approach spans cancer screening, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. In addition to personalized direct medical care, our services include cancer genetics risk assessment, nutrition, mental health support and at-home cancer screening diagnostics. Using technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is transforming how employers, unions, health plans, and governments address cancer. Color’s goal is to close critical cancer care gaps, improve cancer outcomes, and guide patients with empathy through their healthcare journeys.
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About The Role
Our New Grad role is designed for students who graduated or are scheduled to graduate between May 2025 and May 2026. Candidates who already have full-time industry software engineering experience should consider applying to our other engineering roles.
We are hiring recent software engineering graduates to join teams at Color working on new programs and technology that will define the future of the company. The work of these teams ranges from platforms that enable customer experiences and our at home testing programs to the experiences for our cancer screening through survivorship program.
You will be onboarded not only into working on Color’s systems, but to the craft of software engineering by working alongside senior engineers on your team. They will help you build skills in engineering design, code review best practices, testing best practices, observability best practices and collaboration skills with product & engineering peers.
How You'll Contribute:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, with a graduation date between May 2025 and May 2026 (No prior industry experience)
- A passion for using software and technology to help save lives and prevent catastrophic disease, and want to apply your skills in the service of a greater mission.
- You are excited about producing high quality code, and helping to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., code generation, copilots) in development workflows.
- Curious about applying ML/AI to real-world problems.
- You want to be on a team with rigorous engineering practices and discipline: code reviews, automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.
- You have some familiarity with web development and with modern web stacks including Python, Django, AWS, SQL, REST APIs, React, HTML5, CSS3, and ES6+.
- Experience building with or integrating LLM-powered features is a plus.
- You value collaboration with both technical and non-technical collaborators, incorporating their feedback to make decisions using code reviews, docs, wikis, meetings, and other channels as needed.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- Graduated between May 2025 and May 2026 with a 4-year degree in Computer Science
- A passion for using software and technology to help save lives and prevent catastrophic disease, and want to apply your skills in the service of a greater mission.
- You are excited about producing high quality code, and helping to eliminate unnecessary duplication and awkward workarounds.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., code generation, copilots) in development workflows.
- Curious about applying ML/AI to real-world problems.
- You want to be on a team with rigorous engineering practices and discipline: code reviews, automated testing, logging, monitoring, alerting, etc.
- You have some familiarity with web development and with modern web stacks including Python, Django, AWS, SQL, REST APIs, React, HTML5, CSS3, and ES6+.
- Experience building with or integrating LLM-powered features is a plus.
- You value collaboration with both technical and non-technical collaborators, incorporating their feedback to make decisions using code reviews, docs, wikis, meetings, and other channels as needed.
Possible Projects to Contribute to:
- Redesign and scale our patient messaging platform to support personalized, AI-augmented care journeys
- Embed AI-driven automation into care workflows to significantly increase care team capacity without sacrificing quality
- Build and scale automated billing platform
- Extend and build patient experiences across their entire journey – from onboarding & enrollment, testing & resulting, in treatment experiences to survivorship.
- Build infrastructure for developers to expand and unlock developer efficiencies and enable new AI tooling.
What We Offer:
- 💰 Competitive salary
- ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
- 📈 401k match
- 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees, annual ergonomic stipend
- 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days
- 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
- Free cancer screening and prevention resources for employees and their adult dependents
Location: On-site at our South SF, CA headquarters
The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: work experience, market data, skills, geographic location, and business need. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Color prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Color conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities in our recruitment process.
Top Skills
AWS
CSS3
Django
Es6+
HTML5
Python
React
Rest Apis
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Color is a complete platform for healthcare delivery from population genomics programs to high-throughput COVID-19 testing, Color provides the technology and infrastructure for large-scale health initiatives.
