Software Engineer L2

About Curative

Curative is building the future of health insurance with a first-of-its-kind employer-based plan designed to remove financial barriers and make care truly accessible: one monthly premium with $0 copays and $0 deductibles*. Backed by our recent $150M in Series B funding and valuation at $1.275B, Curative is scaling rapidly and investing in AI-powered service, deeper member engagement, and a smart network designed for today’s workforce.

Our north star guides everything we do: healthcare only works when people can actually use it. That belief drives every decision we make: from how we design our plan, support our members, to how we collaborate as a team.

If you want to do meaningful work with a team that moves fast, experiments boldly, and cares deeply, Curative is the place to do it. We’re growing fast and looking for teammates who want to help transform health insurance for the better.

Summary

You will be the single technical point of responsibility for this service. You will partner with product and clinical stakeholders to turn workflows into shipped software, set the architectural direction, own production, and represent the platform in cross-team discussions.

How we build

We are looking for the engineer in between: strong enough fundamentals to catch a wrong answer in a few seconds, disciplined enough to review every diff, and ambitious enough to drive several times the output of a traditional IC. Strong systems and architecture thinking is important, as is product taste.

• The codebase. A full-stack Python + TypeScript application with significant domain complexity. You own code review, architectural decisions, and the quality bar. Most commits will be AI-authored, human-directed, human-reviewed. All of them are yours.
• AI leverage. The internal tooling, prompts, skills, and evals that let one engineer operate a service of this scope. You will extend it.
• Production. Cloud infrastructure, deploy pipeline, observability, on-call, incident response, and cost.
• Operational metrics. You watch how the platform performs for its users — not just uptime, but workflow completion rates, navigator efficiency, time-to-resolution, and the other numbers that tell you whether the software is actually helping. You surface what the data shows, propose changes, and close the loop.
• Stakeholder relationships. You are the engineer in the room with care navigators, clinicians, and ops leads. You translate their pain into scope, push back when a request won't solve the real problem, and build trust by shipping reliably.
• The roadmap. Co-owning the product plan with clinical and product stakeholders. Sequencing work, flagging what is infeasible, proposing alternatives — and sometimes arguing for the thing nobody asked for yet because you are close enough to the problem

• Strategy for your surface. You don't just execute a roadmap handed to you — you shape it. You see patterns across clinical feedback, production data, and business goals, and propose what to build next.
• Integrations. A growing set of connections to other internal services and third-party healthcare systems.
• The clinical domain. You will not arrive a healthcare expert, but within 90 days you will understand the workflows well enough that every prompt you write is loaded with the right context.

Foundational skills (non-negotiable)

• 5+ years shipping production software. Enough reps that you recognize bad code before you can articulate why.
• Real fluency in Python and TypeScript. Not "I can read it" — fluent. You will direct work in both every day.
• Strong SQL and relational database fundamentals. You can read a query plan, spot an N+1, and know when a migration is unsafe at scale.
• Comfort with operational data. You have built or maintained dashboards, dug into usage metrics to find problems, and used data to argue for or against a product change.
• Systems thinking. Can sketch a service's architecture on a whiteboard, identify the failure modes, and reason about blast radius.
• Production cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or equivalent). You have been on-call for something real.
• Comfort working directly with non-technical stakeholders. You can run a 30-minute workflow review with a nurse navigator, extract the real requirements, and leave them feeling heard — not bulldozed.
• Sharp written communication. You will spend more time writing prompts, specs, and PR descriptions than writing code.

Note: prior healthcare experience is not required.

• You already use Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent as your primary development tool — not as a side autocomplete.
• You have opinions about how to structure prompts, when to split work into subagents, and how to keep AI output from drifting.
• You review every AI-generated diff. You do not merge on vibes.
• You treat the AI as a junior engineer with infinite throughput: high leverage, zero judgment, and needs supervision.
• You enjoy building tooling that makes AI more effective on your codebase — skills, evals, fixtures, integrations.
• You see AI leverage as what makes it possible for one engineer to own a full product surface and stay close to users — not as a reason to stay heads-down in a terminal.

• A portfolio of AI-assisted work — skills you wrote, agents you built, automations you shipped.
• Experience being the single owner of a non-trivial service in production.

Why this role

If you have been looking for a role where you own the full loop — problem discovery through production — and AI-first isn't a buzzword but the actual way work gets done, this is it.

• Curative Health Plan (100% employer-covered medical premiums for you and 50% coverage for dependents on the base plan.)
• $0 copays and $0 deductibles (with completion of our Baseline Visit )
• Preventive and primary care built in
• Mental health support (Rula, Televero, Two Chairs, Recovery Unplugged)
• One-on-one care navigation
• Chronic condition programs (diabetes, weight, hypertension)
• Maternity and family planning support
• 24/7/365 Curative Telehealth
• Pharmacy benefits
• Comprehensive dental and vision coverage
• Employer-provided life and disability coverage with additional supplemental options
• Flexible spending accounts
• Flexible work options: remote and in-person opportunities
• Generous PTO policy plus 11 paid annual company holidays
• 401K for full-time employees
• Generous Up to 8–12 weeks paid parental leave, based on role eligibility.