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Staff Software Engineer, New Products

Join Pivotal Health as a Staff Software Engineer to build new products in a collaborative environment focused on healthcare reimbursement.

Location
Santa Monica, CA
Compensation
Not disclosed
Level
staff
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 5 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 4 days ago

Last verified on the company career page 4 hours ago

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What you'll build

  • Join customer calls and site visits
  • Build new products from zero to one
  • Design experiments with the pod
  • Decide on product direction with co-founder
  • Set technical direction for new products

Must have

  • 8+ years of production software experience
  • Strong backend skills in Python or similar
  • Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL
  • Ability to ship a full product experience independently
  • Experience working directly with users

Nice to have

  • Experience as an early or founding engineer
  • Background in healthcare revenue cycle
  • Familiarity with GCP and SQLAlchemy
  • Experience with product analytics
  • Experience building workflow software

Practical constraints

  • Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship

Role intensity

60% hands-on coding

AI in the day-to-day

Use AI tools as a core part of how you build, debug, and explore.

Requirements

Experience
8+ years
Visa
No sponsorship (stated in posting)

Not disclosed in this posting: compensation.

Benefits

401k Match Equity/Stock Options Flexible Time Off Health Insurance

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Staff Software Engineer will engage directly with customers to rapidly develop and prototype new products, often within a week of identifying a need. The position requires strong backend development skills, particularly in Python and relational databases, along with a working knowledge of React and TypeScript for full product delivery. Ideal candidates have over eight years of experience, preferably in startup environments, and are comfortable making decisions based on customer feedback and evolving data. Pivotal Health emphasizes collaboration and leverages existing tools and data to streamline the development process.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed 4 days ago — first seen on Joblaze October 29, 2026. Last confirmed on Pivotal Health's careers page November 2, 2026.
  • Python appears in 34.7% of 314 comparable staff backend roles in United States; FastAPI appears in 2.5% of 314 comparable staff backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Staff Software Engineer, New Products role remote?
It's hybrid — Pivotal Health expects some on-site time in Santa Monica, CA.
How much experience is required?
At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Software Engineer, New Products role.
Where is the role based?
Pivotal Health is hiring for this position in Santa Monica, CA.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: FastAPI, GCP, PostgreSQL, Python, React, TypeScript.
What seniority level is this role?
Pivotal Health targets staff-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Staff Software Engineer, New Products role at Pivotal Health.

From the original posting

About the Role

The pod runs on short loops. You'll hear a problem on a customer call, have a prototype in that customer's hands within a week or two, and then use what they do with it to decide what's next. Some ideas will turn into products. Many won't, and dropping those quickly counts as a good result. You'll help make those calls as a peer, not just carry them out.

You'll have more help than a typical zero-to-one engineer. You can build on our production IDR platform, years of reimbursement data, shared AI tooling, and operations experts who know our customers' workflows in detail. When something works, you'll have a clear path to scale it with the broader engineering org instead of carrying it alone.

What You'll Do

  • Join customer calls and site visits, and turn what you hear into working prototypes, often in the same week.

  • Build new products from zero to one across backend services, APIs, data pipelines, AI-driven workflows, and React front ends.

  • Design each experiment with the pod: decide what a prototype needs to prove, instrument it, and read the results honestly.

  • Decide with the co-founder and Director of Product Engineering when to push forward, change direction, or stop, and bring a strong technical point of view to those decisions.

  • Take what works from prototype to a production system that the rest of engineering can run and extend.

  • Set technical direction for new products: architecture, reusable building blocks, and standards that make each new idea faster to start than the last.

  • Use AI tools as a core part of how you build, debug, and explore, and help the rest of engineering get better at it.

  • Work with our core platform, data, and operations teams to reuse what already exists instead of rebuilding it.

Who You Are

  • You’ve built and shipped production software for 8+ years, including time building new products from scratch at a startup or on a new-product team.

  • You’re strong on the backend. You know Python (FastAPI or similar) or another modern service language, plus relational databases like PostgreSQL.

  • You can ship a full product experience on your own. You know enough React and TypeScript to go from idea to finished feature without waiting on anyone.

  • You learn from customers. You’ve worked directly with users and changed direction based on what you heard.

  • You’ve built with large language models (LLMs) and have good judgment about where they help and where they don’t.

  • You make decisions without perfect information. You’re comfortable choosing with what you have, and you revisit those choices when the evidence changes.

Extra Credit if you have:

  • Experience as an early or founding engineer.

  • Background in healthcare revenue cycle or another operationally complex field (insurance, fintech, logistics).

  • Familiarity with our stack: GCP, SQLAlchemy, and React Router/Remix.

  • Experience with product analytics and experiment design.

  • Experience building workflow software or internal tools for operations teams.

Benefits Include:

  • Competitive compensation, including equity

  • Full health, dental, and vision coverage

  • Retirement savings plan through 401(k)

  • Flexible time off

  • Opportunities for company-wide connection and events

Employment Information

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