Clover Health
Public-facing product surfaces for a Medicare Advantage insurer, built on a Django CMS foundation and serving consumer traffic at national scale.
Consumer surfaces for a population that cannot be failed
Clover Health sells Medicare Advantage plans, which means its public surfaces are used overwhelmingly by people over 65, often on older devices and slower connections, frequently making a consequential financial decision about their own healthcare.
That audience makes accessibility and performance load-bearing rather than decorative, and Medicare's annual enrollment period concentrates a disproportionate share of the year's traffic and revenue into a few weeks, so the surfaces have to hold under a predictable but severe seasonal peak.
CMS for the content, React where interaction warranted it
We kept the split deliberate. Editorial and plan content stayed in the CMS where non-engineers could move without a deploy, and React was reserved for the genuinely interactive surfaces rather than applied uniformly.
Structured content in Django CMS so plan and benefit information could be updated by the teams that own it, without engineering in the critical path.
Component work for the flows where interactivity earned its cost, integrated into the existing server-rendered pages rather than replacing them wholesale.
Contrast, target sizing, semantics and keyboard support treated as baseline requirements given who the members are.
Changes shipped through the compliance and review process a health insurer runs, against a mature codebase spanning several generations of tooling.
Features live in front of a national member base
The work shipped into production surfaces serving consumer traffic at national scale. Clover has since grown past 150,000 Medicare Advantage members, with the overwhelming majority on the flagship PPO plan those surfaces support.
Have a system with the same constraints?
Send us the scope and the compliance requirements. We will tell you what the architecture should look like before you commit to anything.