--- title: 'Staff Engineer at Carefeed' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-engineer-carefeed-chicago-16fbyjzbjf73' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Staff Engineer at Carefeed - **Company:** Carefeed - **Location:** Chicago, IL - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2025-08-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/carefeed/jobs/4891106008 ## Job description About Us: Carefeed is an all-in-one operations platform to help senior living and long-term care communities simplify their daily operations. By replacing paperwork, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools with an easy-to-use solution, Carefeed saves time, reduces stress, and ensures residents, families, and staff stay informed and connected. Seamlessly integrating with EHRs and HR systems, Carefeed works alongside the tools providers already use—so they can keep everything running smoothly without extra hassle. With transparent pricing, personalized support, and scalable features, Carefeed serves over 1,600 communities, helping staff spend less time on tedious tasks and more time providing great care, keeping families in the loop, and running their communities with confidence. At Carefeed, we help senior living and long-term care teams lighten their workload, stay organized, and focus on what matters—caring for residents and supporting families. For more information, visit [www.carefeed.com](https://www.carefeed.com/)[.](https://www.carefeed.com./) About the Role: Carefeed is seeking a Principal Engineer to join our growing software engineering team. As one of the most senior technical leaders in the company, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our systems and strategy while remaining highly hands-on. You’ll lead the design and implementation of major projects, influence key architectural decisions, and may manage up to three engineers. Our engineering team is preparing for significant growth, and we’re looking for someone who can help guide that journey. If you have experience scaling teams, modernizing engineering practices, and driving technical excellence, we’d love to connect. Responsibilities: - Technical Leadership: Own major architectural decisions and drive the long-term technical vision of our product. - Hands-On Development: Write high-quality, production-ready code; participate in code reviews; ensure best practices in testing, CI/CD, and deployment. - Drive transformation: Coach existing team members on best practices in software design, testing and operation. Serve as a mentor to other engineers. - System Architecture: Design scalable, secure, and resilient systems that will support rapid growth and evolving customer needs. - Mentorship & Management: Lead, mentor, and occasionally manage up to three engineers; provide guidance on technical challenges and career development. - Drive engineering productivity: Evaluate new technologies, tools, and frameworks that can accelerate development and improve reliability. Qualifications: - 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong expertise in backend or full-stack development. - Proven success designing and implementing large-scale systems and leading high-impact projects - Deep knowledge of modern software practices, such as continuous deployment and software testing. - 3+ years of engineering management experience; you’ve been both a technical lead and people manager and understand how to balance the two. - Strong understanding of AWS (or similar cloud platforms) and the ability to coach teams on modern infrastructure practices - Experience working with distributed teams; comfortable leading in a hybrid environment (role based in Chicago, with team members across the U.S., including our Cincinnati HQ). Work Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid) What You’ll Love: - Join a fast-growing startup making a real impact in the lives of senior care providers and their communities - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to support your health and well-being - 401(k) plan to help you plan for the future - Paid vacation, sick time, and company-paid holidays to support work-life balance - A culture that values growth and development, with opportunities to grow your career as we scale Carefeed provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. ## About Carefeed ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Carefeed is an all-in-one operations platform purpose-built for senior living and long-term care, unifying workflows across departments to simplify daily operations. - **Entity Type**: Private (startup; seed-stage) - **Headquarters**: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Not publicly available from search results ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare technology / Senior living operations software - **Target customers**: B2B – senior living communities, long-term care facilities, post-acute care providers (ranging from single communities to multi-community organizations) - **Mission**: “Simplified operations, better care.” – to bring order, clarity, and calm to senior care teams, replacing paper, calls, and disconnected tools with an integrated platform that saves time and reduces stress. ## Products & Services - **Carefeed Platform** (SaaS): A unified solution that works alongside EHR and HRIS systems. Key modules include: - Admissions & e-Signatures - Secure Communications (resident, family, staff) - Satisfaction Surveys (CoreQ-compliant) - Training Platform - Resident Bed Board - Online Reviews Management - Calendar & Activity Planning - Family Portal - Online Payments & Billing ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – $3.0M (venture and seed rounds); Annual Revenue – estimated $2.3M (LinkedIn data) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Reformation Partners (led seed round), Allos Ventures, SoCap Accelerate, gbeta - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 32.7% YoY to 61 employees; serves over 1,600 communities (Built In); expanding engineering and product teams; recent hires for senior engineering and product roles; presence in Canada and Slovakia. ## Competitive Advantages - **Single integrated platform** that replaces multiple disjointed tools (paper, spreadsheets, separate apps) specifically for senior living. - **Seamless integration** with EHR and HRIS systems, reducing manual work and compliance risk. - **Built for the realities of multi-community care** – simple to learn, powerful in practice, with transparent pricing and personalized support. ## Strategic Focus - Continue expanding the platform’s capabilities, particularly in payments (hiring a Senior Product Manager, Payments). - Invest in engineering talent (Senior Data Engineer, Senior Software Engineer) to scale the platform and improve data infrastructure. - Deepen integrations and automate workflows to further reduce administrative burden on care teams. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as a team of “smart, engaged employees who act as owners and stewards of the business” (Indeed). Flat hierarchy with a focus on impact. - **Work policy**: Hybrid and remote options available (e.g., Senior Data Engineer in Chicago – hybrid; Senior Product Manager, Payments – remote; Business Development Representative in Cincinnati – on-site). Offices in Cincinnati (HQ) and Chicago. - **Engineering culture**: Opportunities to work on a meaningful product that directly improves resident care. Tech stack likely modern (cloud-based, integrations). Roles emphasize senior-level talent. - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company highlights “transparent pricing, personalized support, and scalable features” – suggests a stable, employee-friendly environment. ## Sources 1. [Carefeed.com](https://carefeed.com/) 2. [Greenhouse job board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/carefeed) 3. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/carefeed) 4. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/carefeed) 5. 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