Senior Full Stack Engineer

Job description

**Council Capital is a healthcare-focused private equity firm based in Nashville, Tennessee, managing over $350 million in committed capital.** We invest in lower middle market healthcare companies where we see the potential to scale purpose and performance. Our investments span control and minority positions in businesses with enterprise values between $10 million and $100 million. What sets us apart is the **Council Model**—a proven framework that surrounds founders and leadership teams with a powerful combination of support: our **CEO Council** of seasoned operators, our **Strategic Healthcare Investors** who bring real-world insight and access, and our internal **Value Creation Team**, focused on enabling growth through talent, systems, and strategy. At Council Capital, we’re not just backing companies—we’re helping build enduring businesses that improve lives and shape the future of healthcare. **THE ROLE** This is a senior individual contributor position. You will build services and interfaces on a cloud platform, work closely with product, and take work from request to shipped without needing fully specified requirements handed to you. The team works on a trunk-based flow with short-lived branches and a daily rhythm. This shapes the job more than the stack does. Work is broken into one to two day pieces rather than multi-week builds; code review is constant and reciprocal, and progress is visible every day, even when nothing lands. If you prefer to disappear for three weeks and return with a large branch, this role will not suit you. **WHAT YOU WILL OWN** - Building features end-to-end: REST APIs, single page application work, and the underlying data model - Designing on a cloud platform with containers and stateless services, working through architectural questions with the team - Taking product requests, shaping them into work items, and building them; measured by first-time acceptance and minimal rework, not volume - Reviewing a couple of teammate pull requests each week, and delivering code that follows the team’s existing patterns - Relational database development: schema, queries, and associated performance considerations - Protecting patient data; zero PHI in development environments, with no exceptions or workarounds What good looks like: you contribute most days, ship results two to three times a week, keep branches short-lived, and your work often reaches acceptance the first time. Complex tasks show daily progress, even on days without code commits. **WHO THRIVES HERE** - You are a quick study and have become useful in unfamiliar stacks within weeks, not months - You seek the root cause before building, preferring to ask clarifying questions rather than deliver the wrong solution - You decide autonomously and know when to check in or proceed, generating your own work items with sound judgment - You are comfortable thinking in abstractions, viewing stateless, containerized design on an evolving platform as interesting - You are unwavering on data ethics—nobody needs to remind you about proper production data handling - You accept code review without defensiveness and act on feedback; review here is daily and reciprocal - You adopt the team’s patterns and engage in design discussions early, rather than pushing back in pull requests - You maintain a steady pace over years, preferring consistent output to bursts of heroics followed by burnout **WHAT YOU BRING** - **At least 5 years** of professional software engineering experience in a modern language, building REST APIs and single page applications - Working knowledge of cloud technology, including containers and stateless app development - Relational database development experience with broad depth (not just expertise in one engine) - Experience in a version-controlled development environment **Nice to Have** - Trunk-based development experience - Python, React, and Postgres - Agentic or AI-assisted coding tools - Experience in a high-compliance environment, healthcare or otherwise **Council Capital and our portfolio companies are committed to building high-performing teams by hiring the best talent—period.** We believe in putting the right people in the right seats, regardless of background, and we’re always looking for individuals who bring fresh thinking, grit, and a drive to make a difference. Thank you for considering a role with one of our companies. We’re excited to learn more about you.