Founding Full Stack Engineer
About this role
This founding Full Stack Engineer role at NELP will own architecture and implementation across multiple integrated products that serve complex, multi-hospital customers; you'll build core infra, data models, and AI-driven workflows that turn customer insights into shipped product. The role is senior and hands-on, helping set engineering standards that enable secure, enterprise-grade SaaS at scale.
What you'll do
- Own architecture and implementation across four integrated products.
- Design data models that support multi-hospital and multi-unit structures.
- Build AI workflows for authoring, evidence organization, and document retrieval.
- Implement enterprise infrastructure including SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logging, and HRIS integrations.
- Translate customer calls and domain knowledge into shipped product features.
- Define and set CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, and architectural standards.
- Collaborate with product and non-technical stakeholders to align engineering with clinical and operational needs.
What NELP is looking for
- 5+ years building production SaaS products with end-to-end ownership.
- Strong full-stack experience with TypeScript, React, and server-side JavaScript (Node.js).
- Proven backend design experience for multi-tenant, workflow-heavy applications.
- Experience implementing enterprise auth systems (SSO/SAML) and other integrations (RBAC, audit logging, HRIS).
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted workflows for writing, evidence organization, or document retrieval.
- Demonstrated ability to own architecture and execution in an early-stage environment.
- Strong communicator who can work effectively with non-technical domain experts and customers.
- Experience defining CI/CD, testing strategies, and architectural standards for growing engineering teams.
Company at a glance
NELP is a unified platform for ANCC designations, governance, clinical ladders, and Evidence Based Practice, creating the system of record for nursing excellence to improve patient outcomes and nurse retention across health systems.
Culture & values
You'll sit in customer calls, hear problems firsthand, and turn them into shipped product within days.
You’ll shape the product, the architecture, and the company direction from day one.
Clear communication is valued and the ability to work well with non-technical domain experts is important.
You should empathize with users and avoid overengineering for the sake of it.
It supports remote work in the United States, with a preference for candidates in San Francisco.
The work aims to have real impact by improving nurse retention and patient care across health systems.
The mission is to build a system of record for nursing excellence, making nursing impact visible and measurable.
There is a focus on fast-paced, careful development and enforcing engineering standards, CI/CD, and testing strategy.
Collaborating with customers and across four integrated products to unify programs is part of the work culture.
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