Station Eight Labs

Healthcare

Team experience

Playback Health — care communication platform

Centralized backend and API design for a healthcare communication platform spanning React, Node.js, and Java microservices.

Some entries below are Station Eight Labs client engagements. Others — marked “Team experience” — are projects our founding engineers delivered at previous companies or as independent consultants, shown here as real background, not as Station Eight Labs client relationships.

Client
Playback Health
Role
Architect + Developer · team of 9 · Jan 2021 – Aug 2021

Challenge

Defining clean API boundaries between a React front end, a GraphQL/Express Node.js backend, and existing Java microservices, while wiring in payments and communications providers.

Outcome

A GraphQL Apollo + Express backend in TypeScript, with Stripe/Xendit payments and Twilio/Microsoft Teams communication integrated through Python services.