Front End Engineer

The Opportunity

Since 2005, MDCalc has been an essential part of clinicians’ practice. Often introduced during medical school or residency, MDCalc has become one of the most trusted and used clinical decision support platforms; used by more than 65% of physicians worldwide. Trust, authority, and accuracy fuel a portfolio of over 800 tools, scores, calculators, and assessments that clinicians of over 50 specialties rely on to help them achieve better outcomes for over 200 patient conditions. This wide use and integration within the clinical workflow has established MDCalc as a preeminent HCP platform and a fixed resource at the point of clinical decision-making.

To continue to further accelerate and steward this growth, we are seeking a Front End Engineer on our expanding tech team. This role will be critical to MDCalc’s expanded success in continuing to support our millions of clinical users worldwide in taking care of hundreds of millions of patients.

The Role

• Build new features and products from scratch

• Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to build high-quality user experiences.

• Collaborate with engineering team members to ensure UI code meets the highest quality standards.

• Establish new and improve on existing standards for component based UI development.

• Ensure feasibility and performance of UI/UX designs using prototyping and proofs of concept.

• Apply creative problem solving to improve existing UI/UX code

Your Background

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

• Strong proficiency using React, Next.js, React-Native and TypeScript to build web and mobile applications.

• Strong proficiency using modern CSS frameworks to build responsive designs and pixel-perfect interfaces.

• Strong proficiency with front-end performance optimization techniques to ensure the best user experience.

• Strong proficiency with Redux for front-end state management.

• Experience using Figma designs as a basis of work for UI implementations.

• Experience integrating UI implementations with RESTful APIs.

• Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines and Git source control.

• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative, proactive approach to problem solving.

• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment with bias towards action and ownership.

• Knowledge of the healthcare industry and previous experience working in health tech is a plus.

What MDCalc offers

• The annual base salary for this role is $150,000 - $175,000. Actual compensation will depend on your skills, experience, and qualifications. This is just one part of our total rewards package, which also includes equity, benefits, and perks. Compensation ranges may be updated over time.

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your dependents

• Company-sponsored short-term insurance

• Fully-paid 8 week parental leave, after 6 months of employment

• Company-sponsored 401k, after 3 months of employment

• Unlimited vacation for salaried roles - we trust you to take the time you need

• Bi-annual company offsites to connect, reflect, and plan together

• Work from home monthly stipend

• Ability to make a true difference in medicine: MDCalc is the most broadly used medical reference by physicians, used by over 65% of US attending doctors weekly

• Hybrid work environment with weekly team lunches at our NYC co-working space

• A culture of fun and motivated team members who believe in a greater mission here at MDCalc