Associate Software Engineer

Activate Care • Full-time • Boston, MA, US • 15h ago

Candidates considered must reside in the United States

About Activate Care:

At Activate Care, we’re on a mission to improve health equity and drive improved health outcomes across the country. Our Community Care Record platform enables healthcare and community organizations to coordinate care for populations challenged with health-related social needs. Path Assist is our tech-enabled community health worker program for HRSN utilizing an evidence-based, structured intervention. Our goal is simple: increase health confidence, improve self-efficacy, and reduce inappropriate healthcare spending.

About The Role:

Our software platform provides powerful navigation tools to organizations working with these vulnerable populations, managing their complicated health and social needs across health records systems, referral management systems, billing systems and more.

The Associate Software Engineer who is eager to grow their skills and contribute to the development of our healthcare SaaS platform will need to have strong fundamental foundation in software engineering, exposure to modern frameworks, and a curiosity about emerging AI-assisted development tools. The role will work closely with experienced engineers to build and maintain applications, improve code quality, and learn best practices while contributing to a product that directly impacts vulnerable populations.

Responsibilities:

Implement well-specified features with guidance from senior engineers.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
Contribute to responsive web applications and progressive web apps.
Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and team ceremonies.
Write and maintain automated tests to ensure system reliability.
Collaborate with product and design teams to deliver user-focused solutions.
Document code, specifications, and workflows for clarity and reusability.
Learn and apply prompt engineering, AI-assisted dev tools, and automation frameworks to accelerate productivity.

Requirements

Qualifications & Skills:

Requirements

Minimum of High School Diploma with 4+ years Software Engineering experience, Bachelors Degreeis preferred.
2+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer, healthcare is preferred.
Ability to work effectively in Agile/Scrum teams.
Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Curiosity, willingness to learn, and openness to mentorship.

Core Technical Skills

Exposure to building applications with Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sinatra, Node.js/Express.
Front-end experience with React and vanilla JavaScript.
Ability to create responsive web apps and PWAs using HTML/CSS.
Basic understanding of RESTful APIs and web services.
Familiarity with databases (SQL or NoSQL such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

Productivity & AI-Enhanced Development

Experience using Cursor, MCP agents, LLMs, and Ollama.
Strong understanding of prompt engineering concepts.
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCi) and automation.

Software Engineering Principles

Knowledge of separation of concerns, code hygiene, specification-driven development.
Experience with testing frameworks (Cypress, BDD, automation practices).
Familiarity with Git, branching, and pull request workflows.

Nice To Have:

Experience maintaining Ruby on Rails applications in production.
Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS).
Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Helm)
Understanding of secure coding practices and handling sensitive data (HIPAA awareness).
Prior experience in healthcare or workflow automation systems.

Diversity & Inclusion:

At Activate Care, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military, and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Activate Care believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

The Company will not sponsor applicants for work visas at this time.