As a Staff Product Engineer at Pair Team, you’ll be a key technical leader driving the evolution of our care delivery platform. You’ll take ownership of complex, cross-functional initiatives that directly impact our patients and clinical partners—designing scalable systems, shaping architectural direction, and mentoring engineers along the way.
In this role, you will:
- Lead the development of end-to-end product features, with a focus on long-term scalability, performance, and impact
- Set technical direction and architectural standards across projects and pods
- Identify and solve high-leverage technical problems, balancing speed with thoughtful design
- Collaborate closely with product, design, clinical, and operations teams to deliver cohesive, patient-centered solutions
- Serve as a technical mentor and multiplier—uplifting the team’s capabilities and contributing to our engineering culture
- Drive alignment between technical execution and business goals, ensuring measurable outcomes
This is a high-impact opportunity for someone excited to blend deep technical leadership with mission-driven product work—building systems that improve access to care for underserved communities.
Who You Are- Leadership & Influence: A recognized leader, respected for technical ability, direction-setting, and ability to navigate ambiguity. Leads cross-team initiatives and influences without authority across engineering, product, operations, and medical.
- Technical Expertise: recognized as an expert in their domain area but able to operate effectively in other domains when needed
- Execution & Ownership: Owns high-impact, cross-system projects. Drives progress across a domain and ensures delivery on both technical and business outcomes.
- Force Multiplier: Uplifts not only engineers but also PMs and designers. Leads by example to raise the bar across disciplines.
- Communication & Alignment: Communicates clearly across technical and non-technical audiences. Aligns stakeholders even when goals and definitions are evolving; creates clarity from chaos.
- Systems Thinking: Designs scalable solutions with a deep understanding of interconnected systems. Anticipates downstream effects and communicates complex dynamics clearly.
- Business Impact: Deeply understands business and operational goals. Connects them to day-to-day technical work, ensuring alignment and measurable outcomes.
- Player & Coach: Seamlessly shifts between strategy and execution — no problem too big or small. Equally effective leading execution (e.g., as a pod lead) or through deep technical contributions.
- Analytical & Data-Driven: Extracts and analyzes data independently. Synthesizes KPIs and qualitative insights to inform decisions and improve products.
- Growth-Oriented: Continuously seeks new challenges and growth. Acts as a multiplier for the team’s impact and helps shape the technical culture.
- Bias for Action: Delivers value iteratively, avoiding over-engineering. Breaks down complex problems into shippable steps and balances planning with execution.
- 5+ years of experience as a high-impact individual contributor, building and scaling user-facing products in a startup or similarly fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to design and deliver complex, full-stack web applications across both frontend and backend systems
- Strong experience with relational database design and data modeling
- Proficiency with modern web frameworks—React and Ruby on Rails experience required
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment (AWS preferred)
- Excited to leverage AI tooling for software development
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, owning technical decisions end-to-end, and aligning solutions with product and operational goals
- Deeply mission-aligned—motivated to build technology that serves individuals facing complex needs such as homelessness, severe mental illness, and substance use disorder
- Lead with integrity: We keep our commitments and take responsibility for our actions. We are dependable and choose authenticity over perfection.
- Embrace challenges: We leave our egos at the door and step forward into discomfort instead of back into safety. We help each other to learn and provide feedback using candor and kindness.
- Break through walls: We go the extra mile for our patients, partners and one another, and we run toward hard things. We are resilient in our push for consistent improvement and challenge the status quo.
- Act beyond yourself: We build each other up and respect boundaries. We seek first to understand and assume positive intent.
- Care comes first: We hold ourselves to the highest standards for our patients. We are relentless in the pursuit of our mission, and ensure that we are taking care of ourselves in order to care for others.
- Competitive salary: $190,000 - $240,000
- Equity compensation package
- Flexible vacation policy – take the time you need to recharge
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k)
- 100% company-sponsored short and long-term disability and life insurance
- Subsidized backup childcare and caregiver supports through Wellthy
- Work from the comfort of your own home with opportunities to meet colleagues in person
- Monthly $100 work from home expense stipend
- We provide the equipment needed for the role
- Opportunity for rapid career progression with plenty of room for personal growth!
Pair Team is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Pair Team, we value diversity and strive to provide an inclusive environment for all applicants and employees. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, marital status, age, disability, political affiliation, military service, genetic information, or any other characteristic covered by federal, state, or local law.
Pair Team participates in E-Verify to verify employment eligibility for new hires.
Any offer of employment at Pair Team is conditioned upon passing a pre-employment background check. Following a conditional job offer, candidates will undergo comprehensive employment background checks, including; criminal history, reference checks, and driving records if a role requires vehicle use.
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Note: Please be aware that while we sincerely appreciate your interest, due to the high volume of requests, we're unable to respond to general position inquiries via email. To apply for a position with us, please submit your application for the role you are interested in. Our team regularly reviews applications and will reach out to candidates whose qualifications align with our current openings listed below. Thank you!
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