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At Coral Care, we believe families should never have to fight for the care their children need. Millions of young children in the U.S. experience developmental delays, yet parents often face long waitlists and complex systems. Our mission is to change that by making high-quality pediatric therapy accessible at home and in the community. We are a platform powering a two-sided marketplace: helping families connect with trusted, local speech, occupational, and physical therapists who accept insurance, and supporting providers in building thriving private practices within their own communities. Since launching in 2023, Coral Care has delivered thousands of therapy sessions and expanded across multiple states. We are a fast-growing, mission-driven team with a culture of compassion, collaboration, and momentum — and we are just getting started.

About Coral Care

Coral Care is building a trusted brand at the intersection of consumer and health. Families come to us when something feels off with their child. Clinicians join us to build meaningful practices without burning out.

We are a Series A company expanding across multiple markets. As we grow, we need stronger technical foundations behind how families get matched, providers get supported, and care actually gets delivered.

This role helps build those foundations.

The Role

We’re looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our engineering team and help build the technical foundation of Coral Care’s next phase of growth. You’ll report directly to our Head of Engineering and work across the entire stack — from the React frontend that families and providers interact with, to the Node.js services that power our marketplace, matching logic, clinical workflows, and AI-powered systems that support care delivery and decision-making.

A core part of this role is owning our API and data layer. Like many fast-moving startups, we’ve built on platforms that got us to where we are — and now we need someone who can work effectively within those systems while designing with the future in mind. That means you need to be pragmatic about shipping on what exists today, while making smart architectural choices that don’t create unnecessary technical debt for tomorrow.

You’ll have real ownership here — over architectural decisions, over how we build software, and over the direction of the product. You’ll work cross-functionally with our operations, clinical, and go-to-market teams on problems that matter to real families and therapists. The surface area is wide and the stakes are tangible.

You should care deeply about your craft, have strong opinions about how great software gets built, and be excited to work on a product that genuinely matters.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement marketplace and matching systems — including AI-driven tools — that connect families with the right providers in their area
• Own and evolve our API and data layer — building on the current platform while architecting for the future
• Build and extend Coral Care’s core platform across the full stack — TypeScript, Node.js, and React
• Develop clinical and operational tooling that supports care delivery, scheduling, and provider management
• Collaborate directly with the Head of Engineering on architectural decisions and technical direction
• Work cross-functionally with operations, clinical leadership, and go-to-market teams to translate business needs into well-built software
• Help ensure our systems meet healthcare privacy and security requirements, including HIPAA compliance
• Contribute to building a team culture rooted in high standards, clear thinking, and mutual respect

What We’re Looking For

You must have:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience — you’ve built, shipped, and maintained production systems at scale
• Fluency in more than one statically typed language — we work primarily in TypeScript, but we value engineers who think beyond a single ecosystem
• Strong opinions about the craft of software — you care about code quality, system design, testing, and the long-term health of what you build. You have a point of view and you can defend it, but you also know when to disagree and commit
• A modern, intentional approach to AI in your workflow — you know how to leverage AI agents and tools for the tasks they’re genuinely good at so you can focus on the judgment, creativity, and problem-solving that require a human mind
• Deep understanding of API design and data access patterns — you’ve built, consumed, and evolved API layers and know how to make sound decisions about data modeling, access patterns, and abstraction boundaries — especially in systems that need to evolve over time

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience building marketplace, matching, or network-effect products — particularly in hyper-local or two-sided contexts
• Data engineering experience — building pipelines, working with analytics infrastructure, or designing systems that support data-driven decisions
• Mobile application development experience – particularly in shared-source frameworks like Flutter or ReactNative.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native solutions — infrastructure as code, containerization, CI/CD in a modern cloud environment
• Familiarity with healthcare technology and the regulatory landscape (HIPAA, PHI handling, etc.)

Why Coral Care

• Mission that matters. One in five children has a developmental delay or disability. The system isn’t built to serve them well. We’re changing that.
• Early and high-impact. You’ll be joining a small, senior engineering team at a company with strong product-market fit and real momentum. What you build will directly shape the product and the company.
• Leaders who understand the problem firsthand. Our CEO founded Coral Care after experiencing the broken pediatric care system as a parent. Our Head of Engineering experienced extended pediatric care directly. This isn’t an abstract problem to us.
• Backed by top investors including AlleyCorp, Reach Capital, and GreyMatter Capital.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $175,000–$200,000, commensurate with experience
• Competitive medical coverage for you and your family
• Meaningful equity ownership in a growing Series A company
• Generous PTO policy plus paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Hybrid work model
• Access to a 401(k) plan
• The opportunity to build durable infrastructure in a mission-driven company

Note this position is located in NYC.

At this time, we are unable to sponsor visas.