Fullstack Engineer

New York, San Francisco
Full-time

About the role

🎯 Role: Fullstack Software Engineer

We're a tiny engineering team building something large. You'd be the person who owns the platform foundation — the data models, the money logic, the state machines, the API contracts, the AI infrastructure. Not "owns" in the sense of reviewing PRs. Owns in the sense of: you designed it, you built it, you stand behind it.

One day you're designing a schema migration strategy. The next you're building an LLM pipeline for clinical documentation. The day after that you're debugging a billing edge case that only appears when Colorado Medicaid is the secondary payer.

This isn't a job for someone who wants to specialize. It's a job for someone who gets uncomfortable when critical business logic lives in someone's head instead of in code.

🚧 What You’ll Own

AI-Native Clinical Workflows

We're rethinking healthcare software from the ground up with AI built into the core experience. You'll help build products that assist with clinical documentation, treatment planning, reassessments, supervision, and administrative work, giving providers more time to focus on patient care.

Revenue & Payments Infrastructure

Healthcare is ultimately a complex flow of money. You'll own systems that determine how services are authorized, billed, adjudicated, and paid, ensuring providers get paid accurately and on time while maintaining trust in the platform.

Provider Business Operations

Starting a healthcare practice today is painfully manual. Build the tools that make credentialing, contracting, compliance, payroll, scheduling, and staffing feel effortless, allowing clinicians to focus on growing their practices instead of managing paperwork.

Patient & Family Experiences

Design the products families interact with throughout their care journey, from intake and onboarding to scheduling, communication, progress tracking, and payments. You'll help create experiences that make accessing care dramatically easier.

Internal Automation Systems

Much of healthcare still runs on spreadsheets, inboxes, and manual workflows. You'll build software and AI systems that automate operational work across credentialing, billing, authorizations, and care coordination, enabling a small team to support thousands of providers.

Platform Foundations

You'll also own the underlying systems that make all of this possible: data models, APIs, security, compliance, reliability, AI infrastructure, and production systems. We expect engineers to own products end-to-end, from the database schema all the way to the user experience.

🧠 Who You Are

  • You've built in environments where mistakes matter. Whether in fintech, healthcare, insurance, logistics, or another operationally complex domain, you've worked on systems where data integrity, money movement, and business rules couldn't be treated as an afterthought.
  • You think in systems, not features. When someone describes a workflow, you naturally start modeling states, transitions, invariants, and edge cases. You enjoy turning messy real-world processes into clean software abstractions.
  • You have strong product instincts. You care about the user experience as much as the implementation. You can sit with a provider, understand their pain points, and translate them into software that feels simple despite complex underlying logic.
  • You thrive in ambiguity. You don't need a fully written PRD to get started. You're comfortable taking a loosely defined problem, identifying the important questions, proposing solutions, and driving execution.
  • You operate with high ownership. You don't think of your job as writing tickets. You think of your job as making a problem disappear. If something is blocking the business, you'll figure out how to solve it regardless of where it falls on the org chart.
  • You are AI-native. You actively use AI in your day-to-day workflow and are constantly experimenting with new ways to increase leverage. You're excited about what software development, operations, and healthcare workflows look like when AI is a first-class primitive rather than an add-on.
  • You balance speed with judgment. You know when to move fast and when to invest in foundations. You can build quickly without leaving behind a trail of technical debt that someone else has to clean up later.
  • You enjoy learning complicated domains. Healthcare is full of exceptions, regulations, payer rules, credentialing requirements, and operational edge cases. Rather than finding that frustrating, you find it intellectually interesting.
  • You still love writing code. You're experienced enough to lead major technical decisions, but you haven't lost the desire to build. You want to spend your time creating products and systems, not managing process.

About Alpaca Health

Alpaca Health is the operating system for autism care. We help clinicians start, run, and scale their own practices — handling the operational complexity that gets in the way of care so they can focus on kids.

The incumbents in this space are genuinely terrible. Clinicians are running their businesses on spreadsheets, outdated EHRs, and duct tape. We replace all of that: billing, payroll, scheduling, clinical documentation, parent communication — one platform, built right, from the ground up.

It's working. We went from zero to $2M in revenue in 8 months, closed a $10M Series A, and we're growing 30% month over month — serving hundreds of autistic children across hundreds of clinics. Every week, more clinicians choose Alpaca to build their practice on.

Required skills

Python
NoSQL
MongoDB
Firebase

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Job details

Salary

$160,000 - $200,000

Location

New York, San Francisco

Experience

5+ years

Company

NameAlpaca Health
Industryhealthcare, ai, b2b
Team Size14

Funding

Total raised

$12M

Last stage

Series A

Investors

AAdverb Ventures
SSouth Park Commons
Soma Capital

Founders

MG

Michael Gao

BV

Bao Van

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.