Full stack engineer
Visilant
About Visilant
Visilant is a commercial-stage digital health company spun out of the Johns Hopkins University focused on creating and deploying accessible, AI-powered eye screening technologies to eliminate avoidable blindness. More than 1 billion people live with treatable eye diseases, yet care remains out of reach due to a shortage of eye specialists, long travel distances, and high costs, especially for rural and low-income patients.
The Role
We are hiring a full-stack engineer to play a critical role in building and scaling Visilant’s core products. You will focus on crafting intuitive, high-performance user experiences across our mobile and web applications, while also contributing to backend systems and APIs that power them.
This is a highly hands-on role where you will work closely with product, clinical, and engineering teams to design and implement user-facing features that directly impact patient care. You’ll help shape how community health workers, technicians, and clinicians interact with our platform—from image capture in the field to diagnosis and follow-up.
If you care deeply about building elegant, user-centered products in healthcare and want to see your work used in real-world clinical settings globally, this role offers a unique opportunity to do so.
Key Responsibilities
Frontend & Product Development
Build responsive, intuitive user interfaces across mobile and web applications used by health workers and clinicians.
Translate complex clinical workflows into simple, usable product experiences.
Own front-end architecture and contribute to design systems and reusable component libraries.
Collaborate closely with product and design to iterate quickly based on user feedback from real deployments.
Full-Stack Engineering
Develop and integrate backend APIs and services that support frontend applications.
Work across the stack to ensure seamless data flow between mobile apps, cloud infrastructure, and AI services.
Implement dashboards and tools for hospitals to track screening activity, outcomes, and performance.
Healthcare Integrations & Data Systems
Integrate with healthcare systems, including FHIR/EMR platforms.
Ensure secure handling of patient data and compliance with healthcare standards (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR).
Support data synchronization in low-connectivity environments.
Quality & Reliability
Contribute to testing, QA, and release processes for production systems.
Support documentation aligned with healthcare software standards (e.g., ISO 13485, IEC 62304).
Ideal Candidate Profile
Technical Expertise
3–6+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer with a strong front-end focus.
Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, React Native, or similar).
Experience building scalable web applications and working with backend services (e.g., Node.js, Python, or similar).
Strong understanding of API design, asynchronous data flows, and performance optimization.
Healthcare Experience
Experience working in digital health, healthcare systems, or clinical software environments.
Familiarity with healthcare data standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7) or EMR integrations.
Understanding of privacy, security, and regulatory requirements in healthcare applications.
Product Mindset
Strong focus on user experience and usability, especially in complex or resource-constrained environments.
Ability to work closely with non-technical stakeholders, including clinicians and field workers.
Comfortable iterating quickly and balancing speed with quality.
Bonus Qualifications
Experience building mobile applications (especially Android).
Experience designing for low-bandwidth or offline-first environments.
Exposure to AI/ML-powered product features or data-driven applications.
Experience working in global health or emerging market contexts.