Staff Engineer

Blueberry Pediatrics (Headquarters: Remote, USA)

Django Hotwire Python Flutter Pytorch Sklearn Full-stack Telehealth Pediatrics WebRTC SQL MVC Healthcare Remote Staff Leadership Architecture Full Stack Engineer Staff Engineer

**About Blueberry Pediatrics:**

Blueberry Pediatrics' mission is to turn every family's living room into a pediatric urgent care. By combining at-home diagnostic kits with concierge-like access to board-certified pediatricians 24/7, we make top-quality pediatric care affordable and immediately accessible. We believe every child deserves the best healthcare. We are a fast-growing, mission-driven company focused on improving health outcomes and reducing medical costs.

Delivering affordable, high-quality healthcare requires engineering ingenuity, leadership committed to prioritizing patient outcomes over short-term profits, and an exceptional product team. Learn more about our values at https://engineering.blueberrypediatrics.blog/


**About the Role:**

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a technical leader helping shape the future of our platforms connecting parents with pediatricians. You'll tackle complex technical challenges, mentor other engineers, and drive architectural decisions for our Django and Hotwire-based applications. You'll work closely with product leadership and collaborate across the company.

Examples of areas you might influence or lead:
*   Architecting scalable solutions for new product initiatives.
*   Guiding the technical direction for key systems like our EMR or data pipelines.
*   Improving core infrastructure, developer tooling, and engineering processes.
*   Leading the design and implementation of significant features, potentially involving ML or real-time communication (WebRTC).
*   Mentoring senior engineers and contributing to a culture of technical excellence.


**Responsibilities:**

*   Lead the design and implementation of complex, scalable, and maintainable systems.
*   Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team.
*   Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to define technical strategy and roadmaps.
*   Drive adoption of best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.
*   Tackle the most challenging technical problems across the stack (Django, Hotwire, Python, Flutter, Pytorch, Sklearn, SQL, infrastructure).
*   Own the technical quality and long-term health of major system components.
*   Proactively identify and advocate for improvements in architecture, technology, and processes.


**Technical Skills:**

*   Extensive experience in full-stack web development, with deep expertise in backend systems.
*   Proven ability to design and architect complex, scalable web applications.
*   Mastery of MVC frameworks like Django (preferred) or similar.
*   Strong proficiency in Python.
*   Deep understanding of database design, performance tuning, and SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL).
*   Experience with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Hotwire/HTMX or similar).
*   Experience setting technical direction and leading projects.
*   Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP), CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
*   Experience with mobile development (Flutter) or ML (Pytorch, Sklearn) is a significant plus.


**Ideal Candidate:**

*   You are a highly experienced engineer with a proven track record of technical leadership.
*   You excel at architecting robust systems and solving complex technical challenges.
*   You can balance technical vision with pragmatic execution.
*   You are adept at mentoring other engineers and raising the bar for the team.
*   You demonstrate strong ownership and can drive initiatives independently ("Manager of One").
*   You possess excellent communication skills and can articulate complex technical concepts clearly.
*   You are passionate about building high-quality products that have a positive impact.
*   You thrive in a collaborative, mission-driven environment.
*   Experience in healthcare or telehealth is a plus, but not required.


Compensation for Staff level roles is competitive and commensurate with experience (expected higher range than Senior level), plus significant equity. Benefits include 401k match, annual offsites, 4 weeks PTO, $300 office stipend, and more.