Senior Software Engineer

Ellie

MD is on a mission to revolutionize healthcare by empowering individuals with pharmaceutical-grade products and a network of dedicated brand partners. We believe healthcare should be accessible, transparent, and built on trust. Inspired by the wisdom, strength, and nurturing nature of elephants, our name reflects our commitment to care, integrity, and empowerment—ensuring that our customers, partners, and community feel supported, valued, and protected.

As a member of our team, you'll help bring this mission to life by upholding our values of accountability, collaboration, and excellence. We're looking for individuals who take pride in delivering high-quality experiences and who thrive in a fast-moving, innovative environment.

Ellie

MD is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our fast-growing engineering team. This is a remote role for candidates based in the United States, with periodic travel for team collaboration, planning, or company events. In this role, you will own technical design and execution across our monolithic Next.js + Node.js platform, including:

• Customer, Partner, and Admin portals
• Internal tools and scripting workflows
• Medical provider integrations
• Website and marketing systems

A primary focus of this role is solutions architecture and task breakdown. You will translate product and business requirements into clear technical approaches, decompose work into well-scoped deliverables, and guide implementation so the team can ship predictably and maintain high quality. You will collaborate closely with our VP of Engineering, Product Manager, and UX/UI Designer to deliver scalable features that power Ellie

MD's digital experience. As we scale, you'll help strengthen our engineering foundation and prepare the platform for future microservice and cloud migrations.

This is an opportunity for a senior engineer who enjoys driving technical direction, mentoring through clear design and breakdown, and building consumer-facing healthtech products at scale.

• Solutions architecture & task breakdown (core focus)
• Own technical design for new features and system changes: propose approaches, evaluate tradeoffs, and document decisions.
• Break down epics and initiatives into clear, actionable tasks with defined scope, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure work is appropriately sized for predictability and iterative delivery; unblock the team by clarifying ambiguity and sequencing work.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain our full-stack platform built on Next.js, React, Type Script, Node.js, and Express.
• Build scalable APIs, backend services, and modular frontend components.
• Integrate third-party services including payments, authentication, analytics, notifications, and more.
• Write automated tests (Jest), improve code quality, and champion engineering best practices.
• Participate in and lead code reviews; support continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the engineering team.
• Work closely with Product & Design to translate requirements into technical specs and polished, user-friendly features.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Support light Dev Ops work, including deployments, logging, monitoring, and CI enhancements.
• Contribute to the evolution of the platform toward more distributed, cloud-native systems (experience with AWS, microservices, or containerization is a bonus).

• 30 days: Get acclimated to the codebase and assist in feature solution architecting and work breakdown, while helping deliver on development.
• 60 days: Establish a working process to spec out feature architecture solutions and gain adoption from other lead engineers.
• 90 days: Take on major platform solutions and drive the overall direction of the product, infrastructure, and process.

• 5+ years of professional full-stack or software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience in solutions architecture: designing systems or features, documenting approach and tradeoffs, and getting buy-in from stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience in task breakdown: turning vague or large initiatives into…