Top Healthtech Software Engineer Jobs in Washington DC,

The Head of Engineering will drive technical direction, develop product architecture, and eventually lead the engineering team while coding and building AI systems.

Build and maintain scalable backend systems and data pipelines for healthcare workflows. Collaborate cross-functionally to automate provider and patient workflows, prototype features, ship production-ready code, and ensure systems are maintainable and scalable.

Technical leader designing and implementing backend features for a FHIR-based healthcare data platform. Owns high-level design, microservices, data pipelines, CI/CD, cloud deployments, and clinical reasoning components (dQM/CQL). Guides customer implementations, resolves complex technical challenges, and mentors junior developers to uphold coding and architecture standards.

Leads and mentors a team of 4–6 engineers while contributing code and providing technical direction. Owns agile rituals, production feature delivery, technical architecture, performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and technical debt reduction. Partners with product and design teams, supports enterprise customers, and drives adoption of AI throughout software development. The role focuses on healthcare software, patient data collection, regulatory compliance, benchmarking, and integrations using HL7 and FHIR.

Technical lead for public-facing gRPC APIs and SDKs powering provider search, ranking, and dynamic copay lookups. Own API design, versioning, ranking/steerage logic, and reliability at scale. Write and review code and designs, mentor engineers, drive technical direction, partner with product and partner engineering, and support production operations and scaling decisions.

Lead the development of analytics infrastructure for clinical AI/ML products, focusing on product performance monitoring, data management, and cross-functional collaboration.

Design, implement, and optimize core frontend, backend, and model-integration components. Drive engineering direction, ship and scale LLM-powered applications, build robust APIs and streaming systems, establish CI/CD and instrumentation, and deliver production-grade agentic workflows with measurable reliability and performance.

The Associate Product Engineer will build features across the stack, utilizing AI tools, contribute to integrations with SaaS platforms, and implement automation workflows, all under guidance from senior engineers.

Build scalable, secure, high-performance applications for clients, clinicians, and internal users. Collaborate across Product and Clinical Operations, translate workflows into impactful features, improve architecture and system stability, and contribute to design, testing, code reviews, and technical planning. Lead cross-functional projects, mentor junior developers, and help shape innovative technology supporting mental healthcare.

Build and maintain SaaS product features across backend, frontend, databases, and cloud platforms. Write testable code, participate in reviews and system design, use AI-assisted development tools, support cloud deployments and monitoring, troubleshoot production issues, and document work. Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers while developing scalable software and growing across the technology stack.