The Opportunity

Big things are happening at Akido — and we’re just getting started! Our tight-knit team is passionate about transforming healthcare by turning data into powerful actions that change lives. We thrive on collaboration, innovation, and the energy that comes from solving real-world healthcare and public health challenges together. At Akido, every idea counts, every voice matters, and every day brings a new opportunity to learn, grow, and make a lasting impact.

What you will do:

• Design, build and test new features based on our technology and business needs within an agile environment where we embrace frequent releases and quality code.

• Provide strong technical leadership in areas of design, architecture, quality and developer productivity

• Tech lead projects and help define the work streams required to deliver projects and features

• Improve testing and tooling for our apps and services

• Collaborate with various product and technical team members and leaders

• Write structured, tested, readable and maintainable code.

• Optimize apps and services for performance, scalability and user experience

• Develop and maintain reusable code and libraries

• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge

• Support your teammates by continuing to learn and grow

What you bring:

• Minimum 7 years' experience in software engineering including 4+ years of experience with full stack architecture, distributed systems and microservices

• A product-centric mindset and ability to challenge product owners and teammates to improve in all areas of product engineering.

• Desire to write feature code as well as infrastructure as code for builds and deployments

• Strong quality and test automation bias. Attention to detail and help teammates deliver polished products

• A desire to move fast and ship high quality code.

• Experience including major contributions in developing multiple microservices, preferably as a tech lead, having built them from scratch and worked through all phases of product development from planning and design to execution and release

• Ability to work effectively with remote teammates

• Passion for software engineering, clean code and strong sense of ownership and accountability

• Experience mentoring engineers with a history of presenting team tech talks on multiple development topics

• Must Have: Multiple years of industry experience:

• • Top notch communication skills

• • A mission-oriented mindset and a strong desire to continuously learn and improve

• • Experience developing RESTful APIs and integrating them with frontend applications

• • Experience with unit and API test automation

• • Hands-on experience with databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.)

• • Microservices integration with Kafka

• • Observability tools, and service operations

• • Docker

• • Gitlab, Gitlab CI

• Nice to have:

• • Node.js / NestJS

• • GraphQL

• • Fullstack development experience with React, Typescript, Next.js

• • Experience with Launch Darkly or feature toggles

• • AWS cloud services experience

• • Avro

Benefits

• Stock-options package
• Health benefits include medical, dental and vision
• 401K
• Long-term disability
• Unlimited PTO
• Life insurance
• Paid Leave Program