About Abby Health

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 rapid 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

Your first six months

- 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 (Sydney)
🏢 Abby Health - Quality Care, Online-First
📍 Sydney