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# Full-Stack Engineer (Senior/Staff Level) at Crescendo Health

- **Company:** Crescendo Health
- **Location:** OR Oakland, CA
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-03-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/crescendohealth/jobs/4538624005

## Job description

Crescendo Health is a venture-backed startup from a seasoned team. We work with sponsors of clinical trials to accelerate medical innovation and fight disease.

The time has come to build a new generation of clinical research that makes use of real world health data, so that new treatments can be developed quickly and safely for those in need. and trial evidence reflects the diversity of our population

Our experienced team includes deep startup, healthcare, and clinical trials experience. Our CEO previously co-founded Datavant, a company that helps connect de-identified health data (merged with Ciox Health for >$7 billion in 2021). Our chief medical officer was previously Dean of Research at Stanford and Chief of General Medicine at Stanford; our Chief Medical Informatics Officer led informatics at the VA. We have experience from places like BlackSky, Zillow, Quartet Health, Included Health, Opower, Castlight, Canvas Medical, and more. We recently raised substantial funding from top-tier investors and are expanding our team.

As we grow, we’re looking to bring on someone who will take ownership of large areas of our product and code base, with a focus on full-stack, product-focused engineering. We’re looking for someone comfortable with both frontend and backend work, who will deeply understand the breadth of our systems and lead us to effective end-to-end solutions and technical decisions, while helping us build our team processes and culture.

We’re looking for someone who:

- Has experience building products from the ground up - at early stage startups or greenfield projects within a larger company
- Cares about the people our products support, and is motivated by the opportunity to improve patient outcomes by increasing the pace of medical innovation
- Is eager to lead and serve as technical expert on a wide range of product and technical surface area. There are opportunities for ownership based on experience and interest — we’re looking for someone who is able to understand technical challenges end-to-end
- Takes ownership and initiative; looks to deeply understand intended impact or why something is broken, identifies the right solution, and drives it to completion
- Understands business context and focuses on solving the right problems
- Will help us grow smartly, including assessing the feasibility of new initiatives, identifying the resources we need to build successfully, and helping us attract and hire top-tier teammates

Nice-to-haves:

- Experience working in high security industries such as finance or healthcare
- Experience working with health data or in the health industry
- Experience working with AWS infrastructure

The Team

We’re a small and focused engineering team that values curiosity, high impact, and kindness. We’re big on open communication, resolving recurring issues quickly, and building quickly & iteratively but with sustainable infrastructure in mind. We’re looking for people who are motivated to help build a great organization and culture.

We are a remote first engineering team. We have regular team check-ins and don’t hesitate to get together to collaborate when it’s helpful. We have regular company retreats, and even when we’re not together, you can expect game nights and other group activities for team collaboration.

Tech Stack

Our frontend is a monorepo with several distinct projects; all of which use React, Typescript, and Mobx. Our backend is a Python Flask app. We also use SQLAlchemy, postgresql and an AWS-based infrastructure.

## Benefits

- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans without high deductibles (we care about healthcare!)
- Generous PTO and parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401k plan
- Trusting, flexible work arrangements

If this sounds like a great fit, we’re eager to hear from you!

## About Crescendo Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Crescendo Health helps participants in clinical studies securely collect and share their health records to accelerate medical research.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Sam Roosz (CEO) and Michael Glassman (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Clinical trials, digital health, healthcare data management
- **Target customers**: B2B – clinical trial sponsors (pharma, biotech, CROs), research institutions; also directly serves study participants (B2C)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To accelerate medical research by helping participants in clinical research assemble the story of their health and contribute it to medical research.” [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/about)

## Products & Services
- **Personal Health Application**: A platform for clinical study participants to securely collect, store, and share their health records to advance medical research. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crescendo-health)
- **Secure Data Management**: Cloud-based storage of health information with rigorous security and privacy controls. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/)
- **Health Record Collection**: Aggregates health history from multiple sources to create a comprehensive longitudinal view for researchers. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crescendo-health)
- **Data Privacy and Security Compliance**: Adherence to HIPAA, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), 21 CFR Part 11, NIST standards, and the Carin Code of Conduct. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/)
- **Clinical Care and Safety Consultations**: Supports certain patients with clinical care and safety consultations as part of their treatment. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crescendo-health)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $3.4 million (Seed round, closed January 5, 2023) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crescendo-health) [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crescendo-health)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor: Define Ventures [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crescendo-health)
- **Growth Signals**: Employee count of 10 (as of mid-2026), with a -6.2% year-over-year change [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crescendo-health). The company is a Public Benefit Corporation and has achieved Medicare/Medicaid Blue Button approval, signaling regulatory trust.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data security & privacy first**: HIPAA, GCP, 21 CFR Part 11, NIST, and Carin Code of Conduct compliance. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/)
- **Patient-controlled data sharing**: Participants must explicitly consent; Crescendo does not sell or share data without permission. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/)
- **Public Benefit Corporation structure**: Allows prioritization of societal impact alongside business success. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/about)
- **Medicare/Medicaid approved**: Rigorous review by CMS as a Blue Button application. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/)

## Strategic Focus
- **Accelerating clinical trials** by making real-world health data easily accessible for researchers while protecting participant privacy. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/about)
- **Reducing costs and barriers** in clinical research through more efficient data collection and longitudinal monitoring of treatment safety and efficacy. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/about)

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on challenging problems with a clear societal impact – fighting disease through better medical research. [crescendo.health/careers](https://www.crescendo.health/careers)
- **Culture**: “We care deeply about treating people well – our teammates and the people we serve.” [crescendo.health/careers](https://www.crescendo.health/careers)
- **Benefits**: Competitive compensation, comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans, generous PTO and parental leave, company-sponsored 401k plan, trusting and flexible work arrangements. [crescendo.health/careers](https://www.crescendo.health/careers)
- **Work arrangement**: Trusting, flexible work arrangements (remote/hybrid possible, but no explicit policy stated). [crescendo.health/careers](https://www.crescendo.health/careers)

## Sources
1. [crescendo.health](https://www.crescendo.health/)
2. [crescendo.health/careers](https://www.crescendo.health/careers)
3. [crescendo.health/about](https://www.crescendo.health/about)
4. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/crescendo-health)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/crescendo-health)

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