Founding Product Engineer
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New York City, NY - USA
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Job Summary
hatch I.T. is partnering with Kinstead to find a Founding Product Engineer. See details below:
About The Role
Were hiring a founding product engineer to own the user-facing experience of their platform.
Youll work closely with the CTO founders designers and clinical stakeholders to turn complex clinical and operational workflows into software that feels simple reliable and intuitive. This isnt a role where product requirements are handed to you in finished form. Youll help discover the right solution alongside clinicians and designers make thoughtful product and technical tradeoffs and build features from idea to production.
Youll own the frontend but not in isolation. Youll influence API design data models and overall architecture to make the entire product feel cohesive. We expect engineers to think beyond components and pages thinking about how the entire product should behave.
This role is a great fit if you enjoy turning messy real-world workflows into polished software making product decisions and building alongside customers. It is probably not the right role if you prefer narrowly scoped implementation work or highly specified roadmaps.
About the Company
Kinstead is building the AI-native operating system for independent healthcare enabling nurse practitioners to launch and run their own clinics. They replace the fragmented manual infrastructure behind healthcare with a single intelligent system so clinicians can spend their time on care not creates a new model of care one where clinicians practice on their terms and patients get consistent community-rooted care. Theyre backed by Wisdom Ventures and founders and executives from Pomelo Care Flatiron Health Roivant and PathAI on their mission to deliver better care.
- Own major clinician-facing workflows from whiteboard to production including implementation testing rollout and iteration
- Help define product behavior alongside designers founders and clinicians rather than waiting for finished specifications
- Drive frontend architecture and technical direction across the provider and patient applications
- Work side-by-side with our product designer to iterate quickly from rough concepts to polished production experiences.
- Work comfortably across the frontend/backend boundary influencing APIs data models and system behavior where it improves the product
- Debug complex production issues that span browsers APIs third-party integrations and infrastructure
- Help shape our engineering culture through thoughtful code reviews technical discussions and pragmatic decision making
- Demonstrated experience leading significant technical initiatives or owning major product areas
- Strong experience with React and
- Experience owning user-facing features from concept through production
- Comfortable collaborating across the frontend/backend boundary including working with APIs and debugging backend behavior when needed
- Experience collaborating directly with designers customers or domain experts to shape product direction
- Strong product intuition engineering judgment and debugging skills
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment
- Comfortable using AI development tools while maintaining ownership of the systems you build
- Ability to commute to Kinsteads Columbus Circle office 3x per week
- Experience with healthcare FHIR or other regulated software
- Experience as an early or founding engineer at a startup
- Experience building products used throughout the workday where usability and workflow matter as much as correctness
- Experience working closely with designers to evolve a design system over time
TypeScript shadcn/ui Python (Django async-first) PostgreSQL and integrations using Twilio AWS GCP OpenAI and Medplum.
Kinsteads services run on Vercel AWS and Kubernetes and we rely on Terraform for IaC and Datadog for APM and infrastructure monitoring. We work in a monorepo and maintain automated testing and deployment pipelines using Github Actions.
Were building something ambitious and we care deeply about how we show up while we do it.
We stay close to clinicians
We spend time with the people we serve in their practices and in their communities. The best ideas come from understanding their reality and building alongside them.
We take responsibility and move things forward
If something matters we dont wait for perfect clarity. We step in make progress and figure it out together.
We turn what works into something that lasts
We solve problems in real time then step back and build the systems that make it easier for the next clinician.
We use AI thoughtfully
We look for ways to reduce manual work so clinicians can focus on care. If something feels repetitive we treat it as an opportunity to improve how we operate.
We care about building something meaningful
Were here to help clinicians create independent community-rooted practices. That responsibility shapes how we make decisions and how we grow.
We are kind direct and low ego
We support each other give honest feedback and focus on getting to the right answer. We take the work seriously but not ourselves.
- Competitive salary and generous early-stage equity (4-year grant)
- Health vision and dental benefits
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Prime office in Columbus Circle with weekly team lunches
- Fun team events and offsites
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
hatch I.T. is a specialized technology recruiting firm supporting emerging tech startups that need to grow their engineering, data, and product teams.
