Junior Full Stack Engineer

Cortrucent Technologies builds healthcare technology platforms for hospital systems and patients, including applications that handle protected health information under HIPAA. The Junior Full Stack Developer will build, test, and ship Python backend services, JavaScript front-end components, and SQL database changes while applying security, compliance, and quality practices.

What you'll do:

• Build and modify API endpoints and backend service logic in Python
• Write and modify front-end components and screens, including work in large existing files
• Write and tune SQL and author schema changes by hand
• Write tests alongside your code and treat test coverage as part of the work rather than an afterthought
• Reproduce and fix defects reported by clients and internal QA
• Apply role-based authorization correctly on everything you touch — getting this wrong is a security defect, not a style issue
• Handle PHI correctly in code: logging, exception handling, audit trails, file paths, and error messages
• Use AI coding assistants to move faster, then review, correct, and test the output before it reaches a pull request
• Document what you build and write down the sharp edges nobody has captured yet
• You own the output. “The assistant wrote it” is not an explanation in code review
• You verify against our codebase, not against general practice. Our conventions are specific and deliberate, and generated code has to match them
• You protect PHI absolutely. No protected health information, credentials, or client-identifying production data goes into any AI tool outside approved, contractually covered channels. No exceptions, no judgment calls

What they're looking for:

• * 1-3 years professional expereince or equivalent abilities
• * Python proficiency, including experience with a web framework and comfort reading unfamiliar code
• * SQL databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar): joins, aggregation, indexes, transactions, and the ability to write DDL by hand
• * Experience with an ORM, and an understanding of what it's actually doing to the database underneath
• * Modern JavaScript and a component-based front-end framework. Comfort reading a large component and making a surgical change without proposing to rewrite it
• * Working knowledge of HTML and CSS
• * Automated testing experience in at least one language, and a genuine habit of writing tests alongside code
• * Git fluency - branching, merging, resolving conflicts, and participating in pull request review
• * Demonstrated use of AI coding assistants in real projects, with the judgment to recognize when generated code is wrong, insecure, over-engineered, or inconsistent with surrounding conventions
• * Command-line comfort, and the ability to work through an involved local environment setup without losing a week to it
• * Clear written communication — you can describe a bug, a fix, and a tradeoff in plain language, and ask a precise question when stuck
• * Passion for technology & security

Benefits:

• Retirement Savings Plan.
• Paid Time Off.
• Paid Training and Certifications.