Associate Software Engineer (College Grad 2026)

Solace is a healthcare advocacy marketplace that connects patients and families to experts who help them understand and take charge of their personal health

About the Role

Are you a new grad who wants to build something that matters from day one At Solace you wont be relegated to small bug fixes or endless onboardingyoull ship real features to real users within your first weeks. This isnt a hand-holding job. Youll be challenged daily expected to move fast learn faster and take ownership of your work like a seasoned engineer.

Youll join a spectacularly talented team who will push you to grow but youll also be expected to think independently ask the right questions and own your work from design through deployment. You will commit code daily. You will make mistakes. You will learn from them and get better every single day. If youre the kind of person who wants to be thrown into the deep end and come out stronger keep reading.

You are scrappy resourceful and eager to prove yourself. You dont need all the answersyou need the drive to find them. Youre not afraid of ambiguity or hard problems; in fact they excite you. You take feedback like fuel and youre looking for a place that will invest in making you exceptional not comfortable.

This is an in person role in our Redwood City office 3 days a week.

About Solace

Healthcare in the U.S. is fundamentally broken. The system is so complex that 88% of U.S. adults do not have the health literacy necessary to navigate it without help. Solace cuts through the red tape of healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates and giving them the tools to make better decisionsand get better outcomes.

Were a Series B startup founded in 2022 and backed by Menlo Ventures Inspired Capital Craft Ventures Torch Capital SignalFire and other leading investors. Our fully remote U.S. team is lean mission-driven and growing quickly.

Solace isnt a place to coast. Were here to redefine healthcareand that demands urgency precision and heart. If youre looking to stretch yourself sharpen your edge and do the best work of your life alongside a team that cares deeply youre in the right place. Were intense and we like it that way.

Read more in our Wall Street Journal funding announcement here.

What Youll Do

• Ship production code in your first weekreal features that impact real users.

• Build across the stack from database queries to API endpoints to UI components learning the full lifecycle of software development.

• Take ownership of features end-to-end. Youll be accountable for what you build and youll feel the weight and pride of that responsibility.

• Work directly with senior engineers product managers and designers. Youll have mentorship but youll also be expected to drive your own work forward.

• Debug production issues refactor messy code and improve systemsnot glamorous but essential and youll learn more from this than any bootcamp could teach you.

• Move fast and iterate. We deploy continuously and youll see your code in production within hours not weeks.

• Participate in code reviews architectural discussions and product planning. Your voice matters here even on day one.

What You Bring to the Table

• A bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent practical experience)graduating between December 2025 and June 2026.

• Solid fundamentals in data structures algorithms and software design.

• Experience with at least one modern programming language (TypeScript JavaScript Python Java etc.). Bonus if youve worked with TypeScript React or .

• Projects that show you can build real thingspersonal projects hackathons internships open source contributions. We care about what youve shipped not just what you studied.

• A hunger to learn and an ego small enough to admit when you dont know something.

• Grit. You dont give up when things get hard. You Google you ask questions you figure it out.

• Strong communication skills. You can explain your thinking take feedback without defensiveness and collaborate with people who arent engineers.

• Extreme bias toward action. Youd rather ship something imperfect and iterate than wait for perfect.

What Youll Learn

Youll be working in our modern tech stack and will gain hands-on experience with:

• Typescript across all our applications

• NestJS API with TypeORM

• Postgres and Redis

• React with our custom UI library built on shadcn

• Tailwind CSS

Why Join as a New Grad

Most companies will have you shadow people for six months. Well have you shipping code in weeks. Most companies will give you toy projects. Well give you real problems that matter. Youll grow faster here in one year than you would in three years at a big tech company. It will be hard. You will struggle. And you will come out the other side a dramatically better engineer.

This is not a job for someone looking for work-life balance metrics or a gentle onboarding process. This is for the new grad who wants to prove they can compete with engineers who have years of experience. If thats you we cant wait to meet you.

Applicants must be based in the United States.

Up for the Challenge

We look forward to meeting you.

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