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Founding Engineer: AI Native HealthTech Startup
Kubera Health · New York City
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What we're looking for We need a Founding Software Engineer with 2+ years of full-stack TypeScript experience, preferably in a healthcare or fintech startup. This is a super exciting and mission-driven role at a well funded startup ($6.5M raised), where you can shape engineering and broader culture. What you'll do
- Develop, test, and release new features, shipping production code from day one.
- Work across the full stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, architecture, analytics, and integrations.
- Design and work with data structures, analytics modeling, and parsing complex healthcare datasets to surface actionable insights.
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making to ensure a clean, stable, and maintainable codebase.
- Opportunity to own problems end-to-end and wear multiple hats—whether that's working directly with customers, shaping product roadmaps, or iterating on UX design.
- Work in a hybrid environment in NYC, collaborating closely with the team in person. Requirements
- 2+ years of experience as a full-time full-stack TypeScript software engineer (back-end leaning)
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js
- Experience in healthcare and fintech preferred
- Extremely high competency with AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor)
- Ideally 1+ year at a venture-backed startup (pre Series B)
- Experience turning unstructured, complex datasets into business insights
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, LLMs, and cloud-based data pipelines
- Able to work on-site in a hybrid environment (4 days/wk in NYC, Union Square)
- Authorized to work in the U.S. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary bands: $130-200K (includes mid level and senior bands; candidates with higher YOE may be considered for principal level)
- Competitive equity package
- Fully covered health insurance and competitive stipend to cover dental, co-pays etc (ICHRA)
- 401(k)
- Flexible PTO that we actually take (encouraged minimum of 15 days)
- Lunch provided in office Mon-Thurs
- Commuter benefits, new work equipment and workstation set up, etc. Interview Process
- Interview with Head of Engineering (30 minutes)
- Interview with Founder/CEO (30 minutes)
- Technical interview / practical technical conversation (1 hour) • (Optional) Onsite & lunch with team (~2 hours)