Founding Engineer
Location: San Francisco
Compensation: $100200k annually
Who are we
We are an earlystage startup dedicated to transforming psychiatric care through AIdriven automation and realtime data processing. Our mission is to build cuttingedge solutions that streamline provider workflows enhance patient outcomes and bring efficiency to every aspect of mental healthcare.
We are looking for a highimpact backend engineer to design and scale our AIpowered healthcare platform. You will build eventdriven architectures integrate LLMpowered automation and shape the future of AI in healthcare alongside a toptier founding team.
Whats in it for you
- Own the architecture of a nextgen AIdriven healthcare system.
- Work directly with the founding team to shape the companys technical direction.
- Build realtime eventdriven systems that power AI automation across scheduling billing and patient interactions.
- Scale a secure HIPAAcompliant backend that supports thousands of patients.
- Be at the forefront of AI in healthcare working with LLMs and realtime data pipelines.
What will you do
- Architect and implement a highly scalable eventdriven backend using Node.js TypeScript PostgreSQL AWS Kafka RabbitMQ.
- Build realtime AIpowered workflows to optimize scheduling intake and provider efficiency.
- Design robust event pipelines to capture and structure operational data (e.g. call transcripts scheduling metadata).
- Ensure high availability reliability and security handling sensitive PHI data while maintaining seamless performance.
- Collaborate with AI and frontend teams to build an integrated LLMpowered care delivery system.
What will you need
- 5 years of experience in backend engineering.
- Expertise in eventdriven architectures (Kafka RabbitMQ event sourcing message queues or stateful data architectures).
- Experience with realtime data processing (webhooks event sourcing AIdriven automation).
- Deep understanding of security & compliance in regulated environments HIPAA is a huge plus.
- Strong ability to work in earlystage startups owning largescale architecture decisions.
- Comfortable working with LLMsyou dont need deep AI expertise but you should be excited to build AIfirst systems.
Preferred:
- Founding team or earlystage startup experience (YC preferred).
- Fast career progression (e.g. rapid promotions at FAANG or highgrowth startups).
- Strong GitHub portfolio personal projects or opensource contributions.
- Academic excellence (MIT Harvard or toptier CS/engineering background preferred).
Founding Engineer
Location: San Francisco
Compensation: $100200k annually
Whats in it for you
- Own the architecture of a nextgen AIdriven healthcare system.
- Work directly with the founding team to shape the companys technical direction.
- Build realtime eventdriven systems that power AI automation across scheduling billing and patient interactions.
- Scale a secure HIPAAcompliant backend that supports thousands of patients.
- Be at the forefront of AI in healthcare working with LLMs and realtime data pipelines.