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title: 'Staff Software Engineer, Platform at Zus Health'
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# Staff Software Engineer, Platform at Zus Health

- **Company:** Zus Health
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $170k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-14
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/zushealth/9b7d1e23-a50f-4c46-8813-5a7f79901a03

## Job description

## Who we are

Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.

What we're looking for...

We’re looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to join the platform team at Zus which builds our core data services. The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, providing low latency and high-availability for all operations. You are creative, innovative and think deeply about both the technical problems and business problems our customers are facing.

The Platform team has needed to rapidly innovate to stay ahead of data volumes that grow at 10x per year and a growing base of data-savvy customers using Zus to improve patient care. The team is also contending with an evolving regulatory landscape in data privacy and security. Expect to learn a lot and be put on mission-critical projects with direct customer impact. The Platform team is at the heart of everything at Zus. You will work on data services that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services (Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc) and use data storage technologies such as DynamoDB, postgres, iceberg, elasticsearch and others . You will also work on RESTful and GraphQL APIs that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice and the team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its pipelines and services.

As part of our team, you will...

- Collaborate with product managers and internal users of the Zus Platform to ensure the platform is meeting the needs of our customers, both internal and external
- Collaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionality
- Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the team’s systems
- Build and operate data services driving our applications and APIs
- Coach others to become better engineers

You're a good fit because you...

- Learn fast and enjoy open-ended technical challenges
- Are interested in the business problems our customers face
- Have experience with operationally stable, scalable, and cost efficient data services
- Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production
- Are jazzed to build backend services in Go
- Have experience using Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift or Databricks
- Have experience with at least one of the following: deployment technologies (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare
- Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
- Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems
- Are in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in person collaboration occasionally

It would be awesome if you were...

- Experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud using Go
- Experienced in AWS DynamoDB
- Knowledgeable about application security
- Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
- Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

We will offer you…

- Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity
- Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
- Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)

Please Note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.

We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you've interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.

## About Zus Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zus Health provides a shared healthcare data platform that aggregates patient data to improve care coordination and enable value-based care.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $74M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Ada Glover (Co-Founder, CPO), Philip Wickline (Co-Founder, CTO), Tim Gorton (Co-Founder, VP and Principal Architect)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare IT / Healthcare Data Interoperability
- **Target customers**: Digital health companies, provider organizations, payers, employers — B2B, primarily mid-market to enterprise
- **Mission**: “To catalyze healthcare’s greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights – so that they can deliver value-based care” [Zus Health Homepage](https://zushealth.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Zus Aggregated Profile (ZAP)**: A single, shareable view of a patient’s recent and ongoing healthcare interactions. Delivered via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Type: SaaS / API Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $4.8M (estimated) and Total Funding of $74M across three rounds:
  - Pre-Seed (2021) – undisclosed amount, 1 investor
  - Series A (June 2021) – $34M led by Andreessen Horowitz
  - Series A (March 2023) – $40M (5 investors) [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/zus-health)
- **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), plus 5 other investors in the 2023 round.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 43.3% YoY to 78 employees; active job postings (5 as of search date); expanding sales and engineering teams; headquarters in Boston with remote-friendly culture.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Only shared health data platform** designed specifically for healthcare data interoperability, offering easy-to-use patient data at the point of care.
- **Comprehensive integration** via API, embedded components, and direct EHR connections, reducing build complexity for digital health customers.
- **Focus on value-based care** aligns with industry shift toward outcomes-based reimbursement.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue scaling the platform to serve more digital health innovators and provider organizations.
- Deepen interoperability with additional EHRs and data sources.
- Grow commercial partnerships (recent hire of Chief Commercial Officer Caitlin Reiche) and expand sales engineering capabilities.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first / Hybrid**: Employees can work from home or from the Watertown, MA office with flexible on-site expectations. Quarterly team gatherings for collaboration and retreats. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/zus-health)
- **Culture**: Collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on improving healthcare. Emphasis on compassion, risk-taking, iteration, and getting things done. [Careers Page](https://zushealth.com/team/careers/)
- **Total Rewards**: Competitive salary, equity for all employees, 401K with generous company match, medical/dental/vision insurance, Flexible Spending Account (FSA), family medical leave, generous parental leave.
- **Perks**: Flexible PTO, free snacks and drinks at the office, onsite office parking, mentorship program, job training and conferences.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: Documented equal pay policy, mandated unconscious bias training, hiring practices that promote diversity.
- **Engineering Culture**: Tech stack includes Golang and Java; strong focus on data engineering, API development, and health IT standards. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/zus-health)

## Sources
1. [zushealth.com](https://zushealth.com/) - Company homepage, mission, product overview
2. [zushealth.com/team/careers](https://zushealth.com/team/careers/) - Careers page, culture, benefits
3. [jobs.lever.co/zushealth](https://jobs.lever.co/zushealth) - Current job openings (Head of Marketing, Director of Sales Engineering, Staff Full Stack Engineer, etc.)
4. [builtin.com/company/zus-health](https://builtin.com/company/zus-health) - Office details, tech stack, perks, diversity policies
5. [linkedin.com/company/zus-health](https://linkedin.com/company/zus-health) - Funding history, headcount growth, revenue estimate, executive list, talent sources

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