Full Stack Engineer

Nara is an AI-native benefits administrator (TPA) fixing healthcare benefits by designing and administering personalized, cost-effective health plans for employers, employees, and their families. Our mission is to rebuild health care around people, not the system. We're working toward a future where coverage and care are affordable, accessible, and understandable. To get there, we're rebuilding the system from the ground up, using new data, tools, and technology in service of human judgment, not in place of it. When we succeed, people get the right care, at an optimal price, without the friction.

The Role

You'll build our AI-powered healthcare benefits platform using TypeScript, React, NestJS, NextJS, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Working across our stack, you'll implement member-facing features, internal tools, and AI infrastructure to transform the healthcare experience.

In this role, you'll work in an environment where AI tools are accelerating workflows and changing how value gets created. We're looking for engineers who bring not just technical skills, but the judgment, adaptability, and systems thinking that help teams navigate complexity and deliver impact.

We care more about your learning velocity and ability to adapt than your specific experience with our exact tech stack. If you've built similar systems and can demonstrate how you learn and grow, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain web applications using TypeScript, React, NestJS, NextJS, and PostgreSQL
• Build robust APIs that power our member-facing applications and internal tools
• Evaluate and integrate AI-generated solutions, applying judgment to ensure they meet quality, security, and architectural standards
• Create scalable architecture on AWS that considers broader system implications and team coordination
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with clear reasoning and documentation
• Participate in code reviews with actionable feedback and thoughtful evaluation of tradeoffs
• Work in an agile environment with a focus on iterative development and continuous learning
• Take initiative to identify friction points, suggest improvements, and explore new approaches
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in production environments

Requirements

• Experience building and deploying full-stack applications with modern web technologies
• Familiarity with TypeScript, React, and backend frameworks (NestJS or similar)
• Understanding of database design, query optimization, and data modeling
• Experience with RESTful API design and cloud infrastructure (AWS or comparable platforms)
• Ability to write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Nice to Have

• Experience in healthcare or insurtech
• Knowledge of HIPAA compliance and healthcare data security
• Experience thoughtfully integrating AI/ML tools into production workflows
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Track record of navigating ambiguous requirements and evolving priorities

What We're Looking For

We value how you think and approach problems as much as what you've done.

Ownership Mentality. When you take on something, you own it end-to-end until it's done, not just until it's someone else's turn. If you spot a friction point, you fix it rather than flag it and move on. When a bug surfaces in production, it's yours to trace and fix, not to hand off with a comment and move to the next ticket.

Learning Velocity. You teach yourself what you need to know quickly, digging into documentation and testing rather than waiting to be shown. When we adopt a new framework or AI tool, you're already running experiments with it instead of waiting for a training session.

Systems Awareness. You see how your work connects to everything around it, and you build with the full lifecycle in mind, not just the task in front of you. Before you ship a change, you think through how it affects the deployment pipeline, the data model, and the teammate who touches this code next.

Clarity in Communication. You make complex things simple for whoever is listening, translating technical detail into plain language and vague asks into concrete requirements. Your code review comments explain the reasoning behind a suggestion, not just the suggestion, so the person on the other end can actually act on it.

Bias for Action. You move with urgency on what you control and don't wait for perfect information to make a decision. When an AI-generated solution looks mostly right, you don't rubber-stamp it, you validate it against the edge cases and ship once you trust it, not once someone tells you to.

Teammate Mentality. You show up for the people around you, not just your own workload, and you'd want to be in a foxhole with the people you work with. When you notice a recurring friction point in the codebase or process, you raise it and propose a fix instead of working around it quietly.

• Competitive salary and equity options
• Health insurance with company subsidy
• Unlimited PTO policy
• Equipment budget for your home office and travel needs
• Regular team retreats and offsites

Interview Process

• Application Review
• Initial Call (30 minutes) with the VP of Engineering to understand your background, interests, and how you approach learning and growth
• Take-Home Project to showcase your judgment, communication, and decision-making process
• Technical Interview (60 minutes) with members of the technical leadership team and cross-functional leaders to dig into your take-home project, your reasoning, how you evaluated tradeoffs, and how you approached uncertainty
• Final Interview (60 minutes) with members of the leadership team to discuss your project, explore how you learn and adapt, and see if we're a mutual fit

Nara is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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