The roleWe are hiring for a founding backend software engineer to build the systems that power Hera's care platform with rigor, reliability, and long-term scalability. This role is for an engineer who cares deeply about sound systems design, high-quality architecture, and getting the details right in an environment where trust, data sensitivity, and operational correctness matter.
What you'll do- Design and build core backend systems. You will architect and implement the infrastructure, services, and internal platform capabilities that underpin Hera's product and operations.
- Build for reliability and correctness. You will create systems that are fault-tolerant, idempotent, and thoughtfully designed to handle sensitive workflows safely.
- Own critical data and infrastructure decisions. You will help shape how Hera handles complex workflows involving medical, billing, operational, and user data across the platform.
- Develop robust APIs and service architecture. You will build well-crafted consumer-grade APIs and contribute to a scalable, maintainable systems foundation.
- Raise the bar on engineering rigor. You will bring strong opinions around unit testing, system performance, design quality, and technical standards across the backend.
Who you are- Strong backend and infrastructure fundamentals. You have experience designing systems with sound architecture, strong performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Attention to detail. You care deeply about correctness, resilience, and the details that matter when building systems that touch sensitive or high-stakes workflows.
- Relevant systems experience. Experience with cloud infrastructure, multiple database types, consumer-scale APIs, SDKs, and service-oriented architecture is highly relevant.
- Security and compliance awareness. Experience working with permissions, role-based access controls, security-sensitive flows, compliance-minded systems, or other trust-critical infrastructure is a major plus.
- Ownership and autonomy. You are self-directed, opinionated in a healthy way, and excited to take responsibility for major technical decisions as an early engineer.
- Technical fluency. AWS or similar cloud experience, SQL and non-SQL database experience, and strong comfort with modern backend development practices are highly relevant for this role.
What we value- Worthy of our parents: We don't leave the 20% behind, because that applies to someone's mother. Quality isn't a constraint we tolerate on the path to growth. Quality is the strategy.
- Collaboration must be an accelerant. Not everything will be collaborated on and that's fine. We assume good intent always and push the ball forward.
- Celebrate human. Humans are at the heart of everything we do: every product decision, every Hero we choose to hire, every person we bring onto the team. For us, empathy is fuel to move with urgency because we know every single day matters for those we serve. We look for missionaries not mercenaries.
- Enjoy the uphill. Wrestling problems this hard, in an industry this broken, is a privilege most people never get. We're excited for the summit but the joy is in the climb: figuring out how to take down the beast, one foot in front of the other. If the hard part isn't what's pulling you, this might be the wrong climb.
- Attack. Nothing is created in this world without an extraordinary amount of effort. In order to will the change we want to see in the world, we attack problems and play offense. We're here to win to ensure our customers get the world they deserve.
CompensationWe pay at the top of market with founding-level equity. People who deliver outsized outcomes should be rewarded with outsized upside.
