Founding Engineer, Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Harbor Health

Company Overview At Harbor Health , we’re transforming healthcare in Texas through collaboration and innovation. We’re seeking passionate individuals to help us create a member-centered experience that connects comprehensive care with a modern payment model.

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic environment where your contributions are valued, please bring your talents to our team!

The Mission

At Harbor Health , we are on a mission to build the future of healthcare, and I’m so happy you’re looking at potentially joining us. We are building the infrastructure for a high-growth benefits company that truly puts members first. Our philosophy is simple and close to our hearts: we provide our members with health, not just clinic or insurance .

You will be helping us build systems that cater for overall consumer health, power clinical outcomes, and the financial foundation of a next-generation "payvider”, with the mandate to build a unicorn.

The Culture (How We Operate) At Harbor Health , our engineering culture is built on technical depth, relentless execution, and profound empathy. We are a deeply collaborative, engineering-led organization where the best idea wins, regardless of title.

• Data Over Dogma: We love to ask, "How do we know that?" We don't make decisions based on the loudest voice in the room or institutional momentum; we act on objectively verifiable data.
• High Velocity, Low Ego: We are building a psychologically safe, supportive environment where rigorous debate is expected and welcomed, but brilliant jerks are not tolerated. We want engineers who are a force of nature, but who measure their success by how much they elevate, mentor, and unblock the rest of the pod.
• Total Context, Constructive Collaboration:We believe in a “one-team” mindset between technology & business functions. Leadership will work with you to foster transparent, respectful, and direct collaboration with our stakeholders. We ensure you have the raw business context and strategic alignment necessary to architect the right solutions and take full, proud ownership of the outcomes.

What You Will Do

• Architect the Foundation: Define and drive the technical vision for our systems, including cloud infrastructure, backend architecture, and dip into full-stack development. You will partner with as well as pioneer secure systems designed for the compliance-heavy healthcare ecosystem.
• Build the Bridges: We need you to design the fault-tolerant distributed systems that connect the disparate parts of the healthcare ecosystem (TPAs, clearinghouses, Healthcare.gov). More importantly, you will build bridges internally. You will serve as a fierce advocate for our benefits operations team - listening to their pain points, partnering with them on solutions, and bringing them directly into the system design process so we can leverage their incre