As a Software Engineer at Locata, you'll build systems that solve some of healthcare’s most challenging problems. We're looking for someone who enjoys diving into unfamiliar systems, figuring out how they work, and building elegant solutions around them. You should be excited by ambiguity, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and motivated by the opportunity to own major parts of the product from day one.

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What You'll Do

Build Product

Design, build, and maintain core product functionality across the stack
Own projects from initial concept through deployment and iteration
Work directly with customers, operators, and founders to understand problems and build solutions
Ship quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and reliability

Integrate Complex Systems

Build integrations across EMRs, payer portals, communication platforms, and other healthcare systems
Design resilient systems that can operate reliably despite imperfect external dependencies
Create standardized APIs and data models that simplify complex workflows

Improve Infrastructure

Make architectural decisions that support long-term growth
Improve performance, reliability, observability, and developer tooling
Identify bottlenecks and proactively improve them

System Design & Architecture

Design the architectural for core product features and infrastructure
Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools
Ensure the system architecture can scale efficiently to meet future growth and performance requirements.

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What We’re Looking For

3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including shipping and maintaining production systems
Strong track record building 0→1 products in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Someone who loves taking things apart, questioning assumptions, and attacking vague problems until they become elegant, pragmatic solutions
Strong technical judgment across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and system design
High attention to detail, with good judgment around speed, reliability, and maintainability
Excellent communicator who writes clearly, documents tradeoffs, and brings clarity to technical and product decisions
High-ownership mindset; motivated by accountability, urgency, and building together in person

Nice to Haves

Experience with AWS infrastructure
Experience integrating with legacy or enterprise software systems
Background or interest in healthcare or healthcare technology

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The Team

You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team of builders from Stanford, Harvard, Google, Meta, and AWS. We move fast but care deeply about doing things the right way. Above all, we’re obsessed with delivering value to clinics and reducing bottlenecks to patient care.

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Benefits

Competitive compensation
Medical, dental & vision insurance
Unlimited PTO
Pet friendly office

About the company

We're building the operational layer for healthcare referrals.

Transitions in care are where most patients fall through the cracks, and navigating referrals is a large reason why. Today, getting a patient from primary care to a specialist is still largely manual. Staff fax forms, log into insurance portals, chase down missing information, and spend hours tracking status updates. It’s slow, error-prone, and one of the biggest bottlenecks in patient care.

Locata automates the full referral lifecycle: extracting data from EMRs, submitting to insurance portals, tracking authorizations, handling patient communications, and retrieving consult reports. We ensure patients receive timely care and give providers full visibility into each patient’s journey.

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