Junior Software Engineer
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Waymark is a team of healthcare providers, technologists, and builders whose mission is to bring the best healthcare to people with Medicaid benefits. Guided by the communities we serve, we bring support and technology-enabled care to help primary care providers keep Medicaid patients healthy. We are building the tools and designing an approach to enable care to reach the patients who can benefit most.
Our core values embody the essence of what makes Waymark a unique team today, and what we look for, nurture, and sustain as a team. We are bold builders, believing that the greatest challenges in care delivery can be solved when we harness the power of community and technology. We are humble learners, seeking feedback and perspectives different from our own, and welcome challenges to our conclusions. We experiment to improve, actively seeking data to inform decisions and to assess our own performance. We act with focused urgency, our commitment to our mission drives us to tirelessly pursue results.
If this vision resonates with you, we hope you consider bringing your creativity, your energy, your curiosity to Waymark.
About this role
At Waymark, software engineers build the products that enable care delivery teams — community health workers, social workers, pharmacists, and care coordinators — to support people with Medicaid benefits.
As a Junior Software Engineer, you'll be paired with a senior engineer who will mentor you as you build real features and fixes from day one. You'll write code, participate in code reviews, and learn how our systems fit together. We want someone who is curious, asks hard questions, and brings fresh perspectives — we'll invest in your growth as you contribute to meaningful work.
This is a role for someone early in their engineering career who wants to do work that matters.
No prior Elixir experience required — we'll teach it.
What you'll do in your first six months
- Ship features and fixes to our messaging platform, built in Elixir
- Work through bug tickets across our stack (React, TypeScript, Elixir)
- Set up a local development environment that mirrors production
- Participate in sprint planning and refinement, managing your work in Jira
- Contribute to code reviews on GitHub and keep your team informed in standups
- Collaborate with senior engineers, product, and design on upcoming feature planning
- Work with PostgreSQL as part of our production data layer
Qualifications
- Some experience building software — through professional work, internships, bootcamps, or substantial personal projects
- Familiarity with at least one modern web application framework (e.g. React, Next.js, Phoenix, or similar)
- Familiarity with Git and version control workflows
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with functional programming
- Familiarity with testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
- Interest in healthcare technology and improving health outcomes
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, mission-driven startup environment
Hiring Range
US Employees in San Francisco/Bay Area, New York City - $106,000 - $137,000
US Employees in Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC - $98,000 - $126,000
US Employees in Arlington, Denver, San Diego, Sacramento - $94,000 - $121,000
US Employees in Albany, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Central/Southern, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Miami, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Portland, Research Triangle, Salt Lake City, Twin Cities - $85,000 - $110,000
US Employees in Baton Rouge, Birmingham, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Daytona Beach, Indianapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Omaha, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Tampa - $82,000 - $106,000
In addition to salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. Here’s what you can expect:
- Stock Options: Opportunity to invest in the company’s growth.
- Work-from-Home Stipend: A dedicated stipend for your first year to help set up your home office.
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Coverage: Comprehensive plans to keep you and your family healthy.
- Life Insurance: Basic life insurance to give you peace of mind.
- Paid Time Off: 20 vacation days, accrued over the year, plus 11 paid holidays.
- Parental Leave: 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents after six months of employment, and 8 weeks of bonding leave for non-birthing parents.
- Retirement Savings: Access to a 401(k) plan with a company contribution, subject to a vesting schedule.
- Commuter Benefits: Convenient options to support your commute needs.
- Professional Development Stipend: A dedicated stipend supports professional development and growth.
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Waymark
View Company ProfileWaymark (operating under waymarkcare.com, legally Waymark Care, Inc.) is the premier, enterprise-grade technology-enabled Medicaid care management platform, public benefit corporation, and value-based healthcare orchestration powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-velocity community-based intervention, rising-risk stratification, and social determinants of health (SDOH) enablement layer for managed care organizations (MCOs), health plans, and primary care providers. Founded by prominent healthcare technology entrepreneurs and physicians Dr. Rajaie Batniji, Dr. Sanjay Basu, and Afia Asamoah, the platform completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of modern safety-net healthcare delivery—where Medicaid beneficiaries lose critical health momentum, experience fragmented treatment paths, and fall into preventable acute crises because legacy healthcare systems are reactive, inaccessible, and disconnected from non-clinical social needs like food insecurity, unstable housing, and lack of transportation—by deploying a sophisticated, evidence-based care delivery engine. Moving far beyond traditional, passive telehealth applications, corporate case management lines, or standard clinical EHR frameworks, Waymark natively unifies a proprietary machine learning-driven risk analytics platform (Waymark Signal) that preemptively identifies rising-risk enrollees, multi-disciplinary localized mobile squads (including community health workers, licensed behavioral therapists, clinical pharmacists, and care coordinators), automated administrative paperwork and prior-authorization pipelines, and extensive community-resource routing networks into a single high-availability population health workspace. Proving its category-defining impact in peer-reviewed clinical research published across major digital medicine journals, the platform's integrated AI-guided interventions have successfully driven a 22.9% reduction in all-cause acute care events across major statewide cohorts. Backed by over $45 million in elite institutional venture capital—anchored by a foundational funding matrix from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) alongside top-tier healthcare and technology investors—the organization scales its specialized community footprint across major markets including Ohio, Virginia, and Washington. Under the hood, its technology core utilizes sophisticated offline reinforcement learning algorithms, advanced graphical structure learning mechanisms built to target heterogeneous treatment effects, and zero-data-loss security layers designed to streamline administrative intake from 38 minutes to 25 minutes without decreasing patient-facing field velocity. What sets Waymark apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing fragmented, reactive safety-net programs with absolute clinical predictability, scalable value-based risk sharing, and proactive intervention velocity; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive structural data analytics and the daily, real-world human needs of low-income populations, the enterprise remains the definitive cornerstone of modern algorithmic population health management and global Medicaid care transformation.
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