Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Collaboration

at Heidi Health

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Backend, Collaboration
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Python, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sydney, Australia

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer executing backend features for AI Care Partner aiding clinical collaboration. Driving feature delivery and mentoring within a hybrid role at an impactful healthtech startup.

Responsibilities

• Lead feature development end-to-end: Own the delivery of collaboration and sharing features—from technical design through to production—that enable clinical teams to work together more effectively.
• Build the permissions layer clinicians depend on: Implement granular access controls, session sharing, and role- or relationship-based capabilities using our Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) infrastructure.
• Ship with pragmatism: Make smart trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality—delivering incremental value to customers while keeping the architecture clean.
• Collaborate across product and engineering: Partner closely with PM, design, and other engineers to translate clinical workflows into technical solutions that actually get used.
• Set the technical direction for your domain: Drive decisions on approach, tooling, and implementation patterns for the collaboration team.
• Mentor and uplevel teammates: Share context, review code, and help less experienced engineers grow through pairing and feedback.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack or backend experience (Python & TypeScript preferred).
• Track record of leading feature delivery independently—scoping, building, and shipping.
• Pragmatic engineering mindset: bias toward done over perfect, iterative over big-bang.
• Experience building user-facing features involving permissions, sharing, or multi-user workflows.
• Effective collaborator who communicates clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and fast-moving priorities in a growth-stage environment.
• Genuine interest in healthcare and improving how clinical teams deliver care.

Benefits

• Flexible work with 3 days a week in the office.
• Additional paid day off for your birthday and wellness days.
• Special corporate rates at Anytime Fitness for Melbourne, Sydney tbc.
• A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum.
• Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team.
• Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company, if Heidi wins, we all win.
• The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia’s leading healthtech startups.
• If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career!