Staff Software Engineer at Wellvana
Nashville, TN
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Jul 5, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior full-stack engineering role focused on building and owning internal web and desktop applications that make a healthcare data platform accessible to clinical operations, analytics, and partner teams. The work spans frontend interfaces, backend APIs, AWS deployment, and CI/CD pipelines, with secondary contributions to data engineering tasks such as pipeline development and dbt models. Best suited to an experienced application engineer comfortable operating as the sole app engineer within a data-engineering-primary team.
Senior level · 8+ years · Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10 people in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7–20
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 $129,394 (middle half $101,208–$143,252).
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 (8)
The title is 'Staff Software Engineer' but the actual scope — sole application engineer on a data-engineering-primary team, 8+ years required, no explicit cross-team technical direction or org-wide authority — aligns more closely with a Senior individual contributor than a true Staff-level role. Seniority is assessed as Senior accordingly.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent experience,' so no hard degree gate is set.
AWS sub-services (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront) are listed explicitly in both the requirements and skills sections and are treated as hard gates alongside the broader AWS cloud deployment requirement.
Docker appears under 'Skills/Competencies/Behaviors' with the word 'Familiarity,' which is softer language, but it sits within the primary skills block rather than a distinct 'Nice to have' section; it is marked required given its placement. This is a judgement call.
Dagster is mentioned only in the responsibilities narrative ('Dagster assets') and not in the requirements or skills sections — treated as preferred context.
Snowflake is explicitly called 'a plus' in the skills section — treated as preferred.
Healthcare or regulated-data environment experience is explicitly called 'a plus' — omitted as it names no specific technology.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
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