Software Engineer
About the role
Locata is building the operational layer for healthcare referrals. The Software Engineer will design, build, and maintain core product functionality across the stack, integrate with healthcare systems, and help scale infrastructure and system design.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Make architectural decisions that support long-term growth
- Improve performance, reliability, observability, and developer tooling
- Identify bottlenecks and proactively improve them
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
- 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
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Pet friendly office
About Locata
AI Referral Automation for Primary Care Clinics
Locata is an AI referral management platform for Primary Care. We deploy AI agents to automate every step of the referral process that back-office staff face daily, from submitting prior authorizations to broadcasting updates and following up with patients. This frees up staff to focus on patient care. Primary care back-offices are severely understaffed and overburdened by administrative work associated with referrals. Additionally, patients suffer navigating the complex referral process, which can have disastrous health effects if they don’t get the care they need. These factors point to a glaring gap in the system—where out of over 100 million specialist referrals issued annually in the US, only half are actually completed. Locata is tackling this problem head-on, saving administrative staff hours each week and ensuring that the referral process goes as smoothly as possible for patients and their providers. Alejandro and Josh met at Stanford where they graduated with BS degrees in Computer Science. Alejandro was a senior software engineer at Meta’s Reality Labs where he led development of several AI features for wearable products and prior to that conducted AI research at Stanford Medicine. Josh graduated with a masters in Computer Science, specializing in AI, before working as a software engineer at Google where he developed AI products that served over 1 billion users. Within two weeks of building our product, we signed a major regional health center and have saved them over 100 hours of work in our first month live.