Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack
Modern Health
$161,000–$217,000
Jul 13, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior full-stack engineering role on a team responsible for member onboarding, care assessments, and care recommendation features within a mental health benefits platform. Day-to-day work spans GraphQL API development in Python (Django, Flask) and front-end work in React and React Native, alongside writing technical specs, leading cross-functional projects, and mentoring other engineers. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable owning large, ambiguous initiatives end-to-end.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $137,000–$217,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 620 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 370–940
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Compensation ranges vary by geographic zone: Zone 1 (SF Bay Area / NYC Metro) and Zone 2 (other CA / Seattle) both show $161K–$217K; Zone 3 shows $14,500–$196K (the $14,500 floor appears to be a typo in the posting); Zone 4 shows $137K–$184K. The min/max reported here reflect the national floor and ceiling across all zones.
The role is explicitly titled 'Staff Software Engineer' and the requirements support that band: org-wide technical leadership, cross-team RFC ownership, mentoring, and roadmap accountability across multiple domains.
Django and Flask are listed together in the stack as the Python web frameworks in use; they are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the same requirement rather than two separate hard gates.
AWS, Redis, Docker, and Redux appear in the 'Our Stack' narrative section rather than under a formal requirements heading and are therefore marked preferred.
Bonus-points items (native mobile, AI/LLM features, real-time messaging, SQL/bash scripting, AWS, health-tech experience) are all marked preferred.
The posting states the role is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii, but is otherwise fully remote within the US.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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