Join our Founding Team to impact real lives

We are looking for ambitious and relentless engineers to join us on this mission. Whereas at other companies you may be working on the next widget, analytics suite, dev tooling, or b2b revolution, what we are trying to do is as tangible as it gets. We serve the everyday people in society that are most sorely in need of help and who have been least addressed by the technological revolution and developer brainpower of the past decades. We want to bring the highest quality builders to bear on this.

When you solve a hard problem, you will know that you've empowered some of the most selfless members of our society to tangibly impact the lives of some of those most in need. You will also be rewarded with harder problems.

Our promise is we will stretch your limits, and trust you to own unreasonably substantial outcomes.

The role

We are hiring for a founding software engineer to help build Hera end to end, spanning the backend systems and frontend experiences that power our care platform. This is a founding role for an engineer who cares deeply about sound systems design, product quality, thoughtful user experience, 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, APIs, and internal platform capabilities that underpin Hera's product and operations.
• Own and build core frontend product experiences. You will design and implement key workflows across Hera's product and help shape how the platform feels and functions day to day.
• Build for reliability and correctness. You will create systems that are fault-tolerant, idempotent, and thoughtfully designed to handle sensitive workflows safely.
• Translate craft and taste into product quality. You will bring a strong point of view on interaction design, UI polish, and overall product quality, and hold a high standard for what ships.
• Work closely with users. You will stay grounded in the lived reality of Heroes, families, and internal users, and use those insights to build with context rather than in a vacuum.
• 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.
• Help set engineering standards. You will contribute to code quality, system cleanliness, testing, performance, service architecture, and a thoughtful engineering culture as an early member of the team.
• Operate with high autonomy. You will identify opportunities, move quickly, and take ownership without needing heavy direction or hand-holding.

What we are looking for

• Strong backend, infrastructure, and frontend fundamentals. You have experience designing sound systems and building high-quality product experiences with strong performance, maintainability, and attention to detail.
• Design-minded product strength. You have a clear appreciation for product craft, interaction design, UI polish, and user experience.
• Taste and creativity. You have experience building products that feel intentional and polished, and you care deeply about how software looks and feels.
• User proximity. You are excited by direct engagement with users and want to build informed by real-world behavior and needs.
• 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 and product decisions as an early engineer.
• Relevant technical fluency. TypeScript, React, Next.js, AWS or similar cloud infrastructure, SQL and non-SQL databases, consumer-scale APIs, SDKs, service-oriented architecture, and comfort with modern AI-native workflows are all highly relevant.

Compensation

We pay at the top of market with founding-level equity. People who deliver outsized outcomes should be rewarded with outsized upside.