Zus Health

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Posted 6 Hours Ago

Hiring Remotely in United States

Remote

170K-200K Annually

Senior level

Healthtech • Information Technology

Accelerating digital health for all

The Role

Build, operate, and scale core data services and APIs to process, store, and deliver large-scale patient health records with low latency and high availability. Provide technical leadership, contribute to architecture and design, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and coach engineers.

Summary Generated by Built In

Who we are

Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.

What we're looking for...

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the platform team at Zus which builds our core data services. The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, providing low latency and high-availability for all operations. You are creative, innovative and think deeply about both the technical problems and business problems our customers are facing.

The Platform team has needed to rapidly innovate to stay ahead of data volumes that grow at 10x per year and a growing base of data-savvy customers using Zus to improve patient care. The team is also contending with an evolving regulatory landscape in data privacy and security. Expect to learn a lot and be put on mission-critical projects with direct customer impact.

The Platform team is at the heart of everything at Zus. You will work on data services that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc) and use data storage technologies such as DynamoDB, postgres, iceberg, elasticsearch and others . You will also work on RESTful and GraphQL APIs that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice and the team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its pipelines and services.

As part of our team, you will...

Collaborate with product managers and internal users of the Zus Platform to ensure the platform is meeting the needs of our customers, both internal and external

Collaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionality

Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the team’s systems

Build and operate data services driving our applications and APIs

Coach others to become better engineers

You're a good fit because you...

Learn fast and enjoy open-ended technical challenges

Are interested in the business problems our customers face

Have experience with operationally stable, scalable, and cost efficient data services

Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production

Are jazzed to build backend services in Go

Have experience using Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift or Databricks

Have experience with at least one of the following: deployment technologies (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare

Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup

Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems

Are in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in person collaboration occasionally

It would be awesome if you were...

Experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud using Go

Experienced in AWS DynamoDB

Knowledgeable about application security

Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs

Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

We will offer you…

• Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity

• Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO

• Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)

Please Note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.

We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you've interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.

Skills Required

Proficient building backend services in Go
Experience designing and operating operationally stable, scalable, cost-efficient data services
Experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs
Experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks)
Experience with cloud platforms and related tooling (at least one of: AWS, Azure, GCP; GitHub Actions, CircleCI; Terraform or CloudFormation)
Experience with AWS services and data storage technologies (Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Postgres, Iceberg, Elasticsearch)
Demonstrated technical leadership, architecture and system design experience, and mentoring/coaching engineers
Located in Boston metro (hybrid) or US EST/CST remote and willing to travel occasionally for in-person collaboration
Experience building and running large-scale systems in the cloud using Go
Experience with AWS DynamoDB
Knowledgeable about application security
Experience working with healthcare data and APIs
Familiarity with FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

Zus Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Zus Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Zus Health.

Healthcare Strength — The information indicates comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with mental-health support and FSA options, alongside extras such as pet insurance. Public materials consistently present healthcare as a core offering.
Retirement Support — Materials highlight a 401(k) with a company match and broad employee equity participation. These elements suggest structured long-term financial support.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Descriptions emphasize flexible or “unlimited” PTO, paid holidays, and remote-friendly flexibility, complemented by company retreats. This breadth points to meaningful time-off options, subject to team norms.