Locata
AI Referral Automation for Primary Care Clinics
Software Engineer
About the role
As a Software Engineer at Locata, you'll build systems that solve some of healthcare’s most challenging problems. We're looking for someone who enjoys diving into unfamiliar systems, figuring out how they work, and building elegant solutions around them. You should be excited by ambiguity, comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and motivated by the opportunity to own major parts of the product from day one.
What You'll Do
Build Product
- Design, build, and maintain core product functionality across the stack
- Own projects from initial concept through deployment and iteration
- Work directly with customers, operators, and founders to understand problems and build solutions
- Ship quickly while maintaining a high bar for quality and reliability
Integrate Complex Systems
- Build integrations across EMRs, payer portals, communication platforms, and other healthcare systems
- Design resilient systems that can operate reliably despite imperfect external dependencies
- Create standardized APIs and data models that simplify complex workflows
Improve Infrastructure
- Make architectural decisions that support long-term growth
- Improve performance, reliability, observability, and developer tooling
- Identify bottlenecks and proactively improve them
System Design & Architecture
- Design the architectural for core product features and infrastructure
- Evaluate and select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and tools
- Ensure the system architecture can scale efficiently to meet future growth and performance requirements.
What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, including shipping and maintaining production systems
- Strong track record building 0→1 products in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Someone who loves taking things apart, questioning assumptions, and attacking vague problems until they become elegant, pragmatic solutions
- Strong technical judgment across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure, and system design
- High attention to detail, with good judgment around speed, reliability, and maintainability
- Excellent communicator who writes clearly, documents tradeoffs, and brings clarity to technical and product decisions
- High-ownership mindset; motivated by accountability, urgency, and building together in person
Nice to Haves
- Experience with AWS infrastructure
- Experience integrating with legacy or enterprise software systems
- Background or interest in healthcare or healthcare technology
The Team
You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team of builders from Stanford, Harvard, Google, Meta, and AWS. We move fast but care deeply about doing things the right way. Above all, we’re obsessed with delivering value to clinics and reducing bottlenecks to patient care.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Pet friendly office
About Locata
We're building the operational layer for healthcare referrals.
Transitions in care are where most patients fall through the cracks, and navigating referrals is a large reason why. Today, getting a patient from primary care to a specialist is still largely manual. Staff fax forms, log into insurance portals, chase down missing information, and spend hours tracking status updates. It’s slow, error-prone, and one of the biggest bottlenecks in patient care.
Locata automates the full referral lifecycle: extracting data from EMRs, submitting to insurance portals, tracking authorizations, handling patient communications, and retrieving consult reports. We ensure patients receive timely care and give providers full visibility into each patient’s journey.
