Abby is an Australian healthtech startup making it easy to see a doctor online - booking, telehealth consults, prescriptions, results and follow-up care in one place. Thousands of patients already use Abby, and we\'re now building toward owning the clinical experience end-to-end.
We\'re a small team. You\'ll work directly with the founders, our clinicians and our support team - there are no layers in between.
The role
You\'ll build across the whole platform: the patient app, the clinician portal, our internal tooling, the mobile apps and the API behind all of them. You\'ll report directly to our CTO - a technical co-founder who\'s still hands-on in the code - which means short feedback loops, real code review, and someone senior in the room when a problem gets hard.
This is a role for an engineer a few years into their career who wants to move fast and grow faster. You\'ll own your day-to-day work end-to-end and contribute to our largest, most complex projects. You\'ll make the call yourself on well-scoped problems, and bring the ambiguous ones to the team early - with options and a recommendation, not just a question. As you build context, the scope of what you own grows with it.
What you\'ll do
- Ship features across the stack. frontend, backend, database and own the day-to-day delivery of your slice of the work
- Contribute to large, complex projects alongside the team, taking clear ownership of the pieces that are yours
- Clarify assumptions and scope up front. Asking the right question before you build is worth more here than fixing it after
- Help keep production healthy - debug real patient-facing issues, respond when things break, and care that patients never feel it
- Build a working understanding of how Abby delivers care, so you know why the thing you\'re building matters to a patient or a clinician
- 1 month - you know your way around our systems and can debug and fix production issues with light support. Onboarding here takes days, not weeks.
- 3 months - you\'re shipping features independently and owning a meaningful part of a major project.
- 6 months - you\'ve delivered capability patients and clinicians actually use, and you\'re someone we can hand a whole feature to and trust the outcome.
How we build
- AI-native. AI tools (Claude Code, primarily) write most of our code. Your leverage is judgment, direction and review - knowing what to ask for, and spotting when the answer looks right but isn\'t. If you\'re already building this way, you\'ll feel at home; if the idea doesn\'t excite you, this isn\'t the right role.
- Patients first. The tech comes second to the patient experience. We optimise to the level that makes sense for the problem, not for its own sake.
- In person. We\'re a small team that moves fastest in the same room. This role is Sydney-based and in the office regularly.
Our stack
React + TypeScript on the front end (patient app and clinician portal), Node.js + Express + PostgreSQL on the back end, AWS infrastructure, and a Swift iOS app. Around that: Datadog, Auth0, Stripe, and integrations across the Australian healthcare ecosystem.
What we\'re looking for
- A few years shipping production software. Roughly a couple of years, with real users on the other side of your code.
- Comfortable across the stack. You\'ll be stronger at one thing, that\'s fine, but you\'re not put off by others.
- You clarify before you build. You surface assumptions early, ask the question that saves a week of rework, and follow through on what you commit to.
- Quality habits. Attention to detail, accuracy, and pride in work that\'s finished rather than merely working.
- Coachable and curious. You take feedback as fuel, actively seek it out, and you\'re honest with yourself about where your gaps are.
- Interested in the business, not just the code. You want to understand Abby\'s priorities and how your work ladders up to them.
- Comfortable with pace and change. Startup experience is a strong plus; being unfazed when priorities shift is the real requirement.
- Sydney-based and keen to work alongside the team in person.
What you get
- Competitive salary $120 - $140k, depending on experience
- ESOP (eligibility from 6 months)
- A direct line to the CTO - you\'ll learn faster here in a year than in three somewhere with layers
- Real ownership at a growing healthtech startup, working alongside the founders
Software Engineer employer: Abby Health - Quality Care, Online-First
At Abby Health, we pride ourselves on being an innovative employer that fosters a collaborative and dynamic work culture in the heart of Sydney. As a Full-Stack Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to make a tangible impact on healthcare delivery while enjoying professional growth through hands-on experience in a fast-paced startup environment. Our commitment to employee well-being is reflected in our supportive team atmosphere and the chance to work on cutting-edge technology that transforms patient care.
Contact Details:
Abby Health - Quality Care, Online-First Recruitment Team
