Software Engineer

The role

You'll build across the whole platform: the patient app, the clinician portal, our internal tooling, the mobile apps and the API behind all of them. You'll report directly to our CTO - a technical co-founder who's still hands-on in the code - which means short feedback loops, real code review, and someone senior in the room when a problem gets hard.

This is a role for an engineer a few years into their career who wants to move fast and grow faster. You'll own your day-to-day work end-to-end and contribute to our largest, most complex projects. You'll make the call yourself on well-scoped problems, and bring the ambiguous ones to the team early - with options and a recommendation, not just a question. As you build context, the scope of what you own grows with it.

What you'll do

• Ship features across the stack. frontend, backend, database and own the day-to-day delivery of your slice of the work
• Contribute to large, complex projects alongside the team, taking clear ownership of the pieces that are yours
• Clarify assumptions and scope up front. Asking the right question before you build is worth more here than fixing it after
• Help keep production healthy - debug real patient-facing issues, respond when things break, and care that patients never feel it
• Build a working understanding of how Abby delivers care, so you know why the thing you're building matters to a patient or a clinician

Your first six months

• 1 month - you know your way around our systems and can debug and fix production issues with light support. Onboarding here takes days, not weeks.
• 3 months - you're shipping features independently and owning a meaningful part of a major project.
• 6 months - you've delivered capability patients and clinicians actually use, and you're someone we can hand a whole feature to and trust the outcome.

How we build

• AI-native. AI tools (Claude Code, primarily) write most of our code. Your leverage is judgment, direction and review - knowing what to ask for, and spotting when the answer looks right but isn't. If you're already building this way, you'll feel at home; if the idea doesn't excite you, this isn't the right role.
• Patients first. The tech comes second to the patient experience. We optimise to the level that makes sense for the problem, not for its own sake.
• In person. We're a small team that moves fastest in the same room. This role is Sydney-based and in the office regularly.

Our stack

React + TypeScript on the front end (patient app and clinician portal), Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL on the back end, AWS infrastructure, and a Swift iOS app. Around that: Datadog, Auth0, Stripe, and integrations across the Australian healthcare ecosystem.

What we're looking for

• A few years shipping production software. Roughly a couple of years, with real users on the other side of your code.
• Comfortable across the stack. You'll be stronger at one thing, that's fine, but you're not put off by others.
• You clarify before you build. You surface assumptions early, ask the question that saves a week of rework, and follow through on what you commit to.
• Quality habits. Attention to detail, accuracy, and pride in work that's finished rather than merely working.
• Coachable and curious. You take feedback as fuel, actively seek it out, and you're honest with yourself about where your gaps are.
• Interested in the business, not just the code. You want to understand Abby's priorities and how your work ladders up to them.
• Comfortable with pace and change. Startup experience is a strong plus; being unfazed when priorities shift is the real requirement.
• Sydney-based and keen to work alongside the team in person.

What you get

• Competitive salary $120 - $140k, depending on experience
• ESOP (eligibility from 6 months)
• A direct line to the CTO - you'll learn faster here in a year than in three somewhere with layers
• Real ownership at a growing healthtech startup, working alongside the founders