Founding Product Engineer - HealthTech

Open Select

$200K — $300K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years as a full-stack or product engineer in high-growth startups
  • Proven track record in building and shipping 0 to 1 products
  • CS degree from a top university or equivalent experience
  • Expertise in Figma, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS, Python, Go, Postgres
  • Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with a detail-oriented mindset

Responsibilities

  • Build and launch innovative healthcare products from prototype to production
  • Own features from inception to deployment, shaping the technical vision and user experience
  • Apply leading-edge AI solutions to challenge problems and enhance patient outcomes
  • Work independently to solve problems quickly and with precision
  • Focus on the craft of engineering while maintaining a strong user impact

Benefits

  • Opportunity to help reinvent US healthcare with a focus on patient outcomes
  • Significant equity stake as part of the compensation package
  • Technical autonomy in a high-ownership work environment
  • Collaborate with experienced founders in a supportive and ambitious team
  • Access to funding that ensures job stability and opportunities for continuous learning
Full Job Description
Founding Product Engineer

Location: On-site, New York, NY

Salary: $200k - $300k + 1-1.5% equity

Industry: Healthcare, Software Development

What You'll Drive

Join a mission-driven founding team reimagining healthcare from the ground up. Backed by leading VCs and strong founder-market fit, you'll architect and build intuitive, high-quality products, owning features end-to-end and shaping both technical vision and user experience. As an early engineer, you'll blend design and engineering, apply the latest AI to real-world challenges, and have direct, high-impact influence on product direction and patient outcomes.

What You'll Focus On
  • Build intuitive, high-quality healthcare products from prototype to production, blending design and engineering.
  • Own features end-to-end - shaping technical vision, user experience, and product direction.
  • Apply cutting-edge AI to solve complex challenges and improve patient outcomes.
  • Move quickly, solve problems independently, and obsess over craft and user impact.

Who You Are
  • 4+ years as a full-stack or product engineer in high-growth, venture-backed startups
  • Proven track record building and shipping meaningful 01 products
  • CS degree from a top 40 university (or equivalent experience)
  • Highly skilled across the stack: Figma, TypeScript, React, HTML/CSS, Python, Go, Postgres, etc.
  • Detail-oriented, passionate about user experience, and a strong communicator and collaborator

Why You'll Thrive Here
  • Join at inception to help reinvent US healthcare, working on a product that directly improves patient outcomes.
  • Meaningful equity, technical autonomy, and a high-ownership environment where your decisions matter.
  • Work alongside founders with deep healthcare and engineering backgrounds, backed by leading VCs (Sunflower Capital, BoxGroup).
  • Funding for 1+ years, continuous learning, and a collaborative, ambitious team that values your ideas.

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