Staff Engineer, Full Stack
About the role
At Butterfly Network, we’re leading a digital revolution in medical imaging, transforming an industry that has long relied on bulky, analog systems. With our proprietary Ultrasound-on-Chip™ technology, we’re democratizing healthcare by shifting ultrasound from the expensive, stationary systems of the past to the connected, mobile, and software-enabled platforms of today. In 2018, we launched the world’s first handheld, whole-body ultrasound, Butterfly iQ – followed by iQ+ in 2020 and iQ3 in 2024, each more powerful than the last. Our innovation doesn’t stop at hardware. Butterfly combines our advanced device with intelligent software, AI, services, and education to drive adoption of affordable, accessible imaging. Our technology is proving to help clinicians, clinics, and hospitals enhance care, cut costs, and expand imaging access. We’ve been recognized by Prix Galien USA, Fierce 50, TIME’s Best Inventions, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, among other awards. We’re a team of bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators ready to shape the future of medical imaging. Let’s build something extraordinary together!
We are seeking an experienced software engineer to build our critical Enterprise Clinical workflows system. The Butterfly Cloud provides a secure and robust connection to user’s health information. We build tools and services that allow doctors and clinicians to make informed, intelligent diagnostic decisions with the help of their fellow peers. In doing so, we manage and maintain our customer’s administration of users and organizations, ensuring feature and entitlement management as well as building scalable, platform enterprise features like global search and audit logging. Join us in solving challenging, mission critical problems that will make our technology accessible to 40 million physicians and billions of people worldwide. As part of our team, your core responsibilities will be to:
Responsibilities
- Solve distributed systems problems, designing for elasticity, reliability, performance and automated validation
- Build modern solutions using the best technologies available, informed by a deep understanding of cloud architecture and how distributed systems operate at scale
- Own business problems, shape ideas into system designs and lead developers through execution
- Mentor and lead other engineers to achieve our goals
- Perform a broad variety of tasks in support of the role and responsibilities
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience solving distributed systems/web development problems
- A track record of mentoring engineers
- Willingness to work in different layers of the stack and unfamiliar problem domains
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Skills
- GraphQL and related frameworks e.g. Relay, Apollo and URQL
- Experience with LLMs and MLOps
- Containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, ECS, EKS
- Web apps with live updates - pub/sub solutions (such as Redis), WebSockets
- Designing and building observability solutions, utilizing modern monitoring, logging, and metrics tools to ensure overall system health
- Frontend experience with React and Typescript
- Opensearch or other Lucene based search engines
- HIPAA, PHI and PII compliance
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, encompassing dental and vision coverage
- Option to buy up for enhanced health insurance coverage
- Annual contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA) for all enrolled employees
- Comprehensive Employee Assistance Program – access to tools and resources to support emotional health and day‑to‑day needs
- 401k plan with company match
- Eligible employees may participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Unlimited Paid Time Off plus 10 Holiday Days per year
- Parental Leave – time to bond with a growing family, plus additional support for primary caregivers
- Equity – every employee is a stakeholder
- Opportunity to build a revolutionary healthcare product and save millions of lives