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Founding Engineer

Understood Care, New York, New York

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Posted pay

$120K–$200K

a year

Location: New York, New York
Work type: Not given
Level: Not given
Experience: 2+ years
Skills in the job text: TypeScript
Next.js
Posted: Sep 17, 2024
Last check: 4 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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Have prior experience founding a company or building products at early stages
Have built production LLM-powered applications
Are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people
Keep up with the latest developments in ML/AI

Next.JS, TypeScript, Tailwind, LLMs

We’re growing rapidly each month and are hiring a founding engineer to build features and automation to meet customer demand. Our vision is for all of this paperwork to be entirely automated by computers and to become the de facto network infrastructure between providers and payers.

As the founding engineer, you’ll have a hand in all of our systems: customer-facing web app, AI automation, and internal tooling/infrastructure. You’ll also have a significant voice in deciding engineering strategy, best practices, and culture for the whole company going forward.

The core work will include

Product features to help customers visualize and manage their enrollments
Experimentation with cutting edge AI techniques to build automation for browser/PDF-based workflows while maintaining high accuracy
Build internal tooling and evals to monitor and collect feedback for AI systems
Working directly with the founders to shape the product direction and engineering strategy

We would love to meet if you

Are independent and resourceful with 2+ years of experience building real-world applications, with a very high bar for quality
Can rapidly go from 0 to 1 in building web applications
Want to work at an early startup, staying close to customers to iterate fast and solve their problems
Are excited about how AI can transform an inefficient manual process

About Understood Care

Every healthcare provider in the US must be enrolled with payer networks (e.g. commercial insurance, Medicaid, etc.) to bill for services. However, the payer enrollment process is fragmented and time-consuming: each payer in every state has a unique process. This process is currently entirely manual and the complexity often leads to errors, causing months of delays and lost billings for providers.

Ply Health standardizes and automates payer enrollment. Providers fill out a single form and our AI-powered connectors submit the correct forms and manage the cases until completion. In half a year, we’ve done over 3,000 enrollments for our customers and helped some of our customers halve their enrollment timelines, earning them hundreds of thousands of dollars more in revenue per provider.

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This base pay is below the median for software engineering jobs in New York with no level in the job title.

Median: $200K a year
Other jobs in the group: 1,193

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