Hi 👋 We’re HealthMatch.
We connect patients who need options and clinical trials that need patients - and we’re growing the team that builds the product in the middle.
Clinical trials struggle to find patients. Millions of patients don’t know clinical trials are an option. HealthMatch sits in the middle as the recruitment marketplace connecting them. Giving better access to innovative therapies for patients, and clearer, more predictable recruitment for our customers.
We’ve grown to over 3 million users worldwide and connected them to more than 6,000 clinical trials - and we’re only just getting started. Backed by leading Australian investors (Square Peg, Folklore), we’re now focused on scaling the marketplace and strengthening the core platform that powers it.
Senior / Lead Full-Stack Engineer
(Think very senior IC with plenty of technical leadership, but no direct reports.)
We’re looking for a strong senior engineer who works independently, owns complex features end-to-end, and thinks like a tech lead without the formal title.
Where & How You’ll Work
Based in
Sydney
, with a hybrid WFH/office (near Townhall Station)
A small, senior-leaning team with high trust and low ceremony
Roughly half the team is US-based
, so you’ll need some good async habits and overlapping hours where it matters (all company meetings)
Opportunities to
travel to the US around once a year
for onsite collaboration and planning
Plenty of ownership - your decisions will meaningfully influence our architecture and ways of working
What You’ll Do
Own features from
concept → requirements → implementation → launch
Take broad problems and turn them into clear, scoped, buildable work
Build high-quality
full-stack features
across our platform
Deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and improve production systems
Balance engineering quality with business needs and speed
Work closely with product and operations to shape pragmatic solutions
How You Work
You work with Claude/GPT and use AI to accelerate development
But you check and challenge every decision the model makes
You understand that AI is fast, not always right - and you know when to trust it, when to rewrite it, and when to tell it to try again
You treat AI as leverage, not a substitute for engineering judgment
You’ll Be a Great Fit If You:
Have
senior-level experience
shipping production features end-to-end
Can operate
autonomously
and make pragmatic trade-offs
Understand
infra, deployments, observability, and operational readiness
Think in terms of
edge cases, failure modes, and long-term maintainability
Communicate clearly
and prefer simple, understandable solutions
Enjoy working across disciplines and
care about real patient and business impact
Our Stack
Our codebase is mixed and fairly large, but mostly we use:
Kotlin, GraphQL, REST, React, DBT
, and we deploy to
AWS
.
Why Join HealthMatch?
High autonomy, low process:
More ownership, fewer blockers
Meaningful domain:
Your work helps accelerate access to life-changing treatments
Big impact on a small team:
You’ll shape core systems that are still evolving
Backed and growing:
Strong investors, large user base, ambitious roadmap
We’re at the stage where your decisions will influence our architecture, our velocity, and how the marketplace operates at scale.