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Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Lunar· Engineering
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San Francisco$190k - $250kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Staff Software Engineer position at Lunar, a stealth healthcare technology company building a new platform for health systems. Role involves designing a modern cloud-native platform with Elixir, building advanced access control for clinical data, ensuring 24/7 hospital availability, integrating hardware and software, and modernizing hospital workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Modern cloud architecture, built from scratch: design a modern cloud-native platform with Elixir at its core.
  • Develop a radically better access control system for clinical data with fine-grained permissions while enabling population-level insights.
  • Keep hospitals online 24/7: design and ship infrastructure for rolling deployments, failover, and real-time data sync.
  • Bridge the gap between software and hardware: architect an integration engine to connect ventilators, bedside monitors, imaging equipment, lab equipment, etc., in real time.
  • Push hospital workflows into the modern age: optimize data movement between nurses, doctors, and administrators to create fast, intuitive experiences.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 10 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Proficiency with object oriented and functional programming; experience with Phoenix, Elixir, Python, Erlang, Javascript, and related technologies.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and innovative team environment.
  • Exceptional problem-solving skills with a track record of tackling challenging engineering problems.
  • Intellectually curious with a growth mindset and first principles thinking.
  • Familiarity with open-source technology and desire to explore new solutions.
  • Experience building 0-1 with strong product sense.
  • Excellent communication skills to articulate technical decisions, trade-offs, and best practices.

Skills

Required:ElixirPhoenixDistributed systemsCommunication
Nice to have:Open-source technologies
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Lunar

The most sophisticated software system ever built for hospitals

Lunar is a stealth technology company building a new type of software system for hospitals.

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