What the role involves
As a Software Engineer at Locata, you'll build systems that solve some of healthcare’s most challenging problems. We're looking for someone who enjoys diving into unfamiliar systems, figuring out how they work, and building elegant solutions around them. You should be excited by ambiguity, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and motivated by the opportunity to own major parts of the product from day one.
What You'll Do
Build Product
Design, build, and maintain core product functionality across the stack
Own projects from initial concept through deployment and iteration
Work directly with customers, operators, and founders to understand problems and build solutions
Ship quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and reliability
Integrate Complex Systems
Build integrations across EMRs, payer portals, communication platforms, and other healthcare systems
Design resilient systems that can operate reliably despite imperfect external dependencies
Create standardized APIs and data models that simplify complex workflows
Improve Infrastructure
Make architectural decisions that support long-term growth
Improve performance, reliability, observability, and developer tooling
Identify bottlenecks and proactively improve them
System Design & Architecture
Design the architectural for core product features and infrastructure
Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools
Ensure the system architecture can scale efficiently to meet future growth and performance requirements.
What We’re Looking For
3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including shipping and maintaining production systems
Strong track record building 0→1 products in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Someone who loves taking things apart, questioning assumptions, and attacking vague problems until they become elegant, pragmatic solutions
Strong technical judgment across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and system design
High attention to detail, with good judgment around speed, reliability, and maintainability
Excellent communicator who writes clearly, documents tradeoffs, and brings clarity to technical and product decisions
High-ownership mindset; motivated by accountability, urgency, and building together in person
Nice to Haves
Experience with AWS infrastructure
Experience integrating with legacy or enterprise software systems
Background or interest in healthcare or healthcare technology
The Team
You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team of builders from Stanford, Harvard, Google, Meta, and AWS. We move fast but care deeply about doing things the right way. Above all, we’re obsessed with delivering value to clinics and reducing bottlenecks to patient care.
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Medical, dental & vision insurance
Unlimited PTO
Pet friendly office
What they ask for
About Locata
Locata is an AI referral management platform for Primary Care. We deploy AI agents to automate every step of the referral process that back-office staff face daily, from submitting prior authorizations to broadcasting updates and following up with patients. This frees up staff to focus on patient care. Primary care back-offices are severely understaffed and overburdened by administrative work associated with referrals. Additionally, patients suffer navigating the complex referral process, which can have disastrous health effects if they don’t get the care they need. These factors point to a glaring gap in the system—where out of over 100 million specialist referrals issued annually in the US, only half are actually completed. Locata is tackling this problem head-on, saving administrative staff hours each week and ensuring that the referral process goes as smoothly as possible for patients and their providers. Alejandro and Josh met at Stanford where they graduated with BS degrees in Computer Science. Alejandro was a senior software engineer at Meta’s Reality Labs where he led development of several AI features for wearable products and prior to that conducted AI research at Stanford Medicine. Josh graduated with a masters in Computer Science, specializing in AI, before working as a software engineer at Google where he developed AI products that served over 1 billion users. Within two weeks of building our product, we signed a major regional health center and have saved them over 100 hours of work in our first month live.
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