Software Engineer

At Activate Care, we’re on a mission to improve health equity and drive better health outcomes across the country. Our Care Link platform enables healthcare and community organizations to coordinate care for populations challenged with health-related social needs (HRSN). Path Assist is our tech-enabled community health worker program for HRSN that uses an evidence-based, structured intervention to help individuals build confidence managing their health and accessing the resources they need. Our goal is simple: increase health confidence, improve self-efficacy, and reduce inappropriate healthcare spending.

About the Role:

Our platform helps healthcare providers and community organizations coordinate care for individuals facing complex medical and social challenges. The systems we build support real-time collaboration across health records, referral networks, and community services.

As a Software Engineer at Activate Care, you will help design and build the tools that power this coordination. You will work alongside experienced engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver high-quality software that directly supports organizations improving outcomes for vulnerable populations.

You’ll contribute across the full development lifecycle-from designing solutions and writing production code to improving system quality and participating in technical discussions within your team.

Responsibilities:

• Implement well-specified features with guidance from senior engineers.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that supports system reliability and scalability.
• Contribute to responsive web applications and progressive web apps.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team ceremonies.
• Write and maintain automated tests to ensure system reliability.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver user-focused solutions.
• Document code, specifications, and workflows for clarity and reusability.
• Learn and apply prompt engineering, AI-assisted dev tools, and automation frameworks to accelerate productivity.

Must Have:

• Minimum of a High School Diploma with an equivalent of 4+ years of Software Engineering experience, or a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer, healthcare experience is preferred.
• Experience working effectively within Agile/Scrum teams.
• Advanced ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non technical stakeholders
• Willingness, and ability to learn new technologies, adapt to feedback and continuously improve technical skills.

Core Technical Skills

• Experience building applications using Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sinatra, or Node JS /Fastify .
• Frontend development experience with React, Svelte and modern JavaScript.

• Experience building scalable responsive web applications and progressive web apps using HTML/CSS. *

• Experience with Native web applications is a plus
• Experience developing and integrating RESTful APIs and web services.
• Familiarity with relational or document databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or EdgeDB.
• Experience with background job processing systems such as ActiveJob, Sidekiq, or Resque.

Productivity & AI-Enhanced Development

• Experience using Cursor, MCP agents, LLMs, or Ollama.
• Strong understanding of prompt engineering concepts.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or CircleCI.
• Familiarity with development automation and workflow optimization.

Software Engineering Principles

• Strong understanding of separation of concerns, code quality, and maintainable architecture.
• Experience designing and implementing well-tested features.
• Familiarity with multiple quality domains such as functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Experience with testing frameworks such as Cypress, MiniTest, or other automated testing approaches.
• Experience working with Git workflows, pull requests, and collaborative development practices.

Nice to Have:

• Experience maintaining Ruby on Rails applications in production environments.
• Experience maintaining PWA’s and SPA applications
• Experience working with AWS or other cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes/Helm.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices (OWASP, Brakeman) and handling sensitive healthcare data (HIPAA awareness).
• Prior experience working on healthcare platforms or workflow automation systems.