Y Combinator

Founding Software Engineer

Y Combinator • $140K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience building products from the ground up at early-stage startups
  • Ability to prioritize and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • User-centric approach to product development
  • Passionate about improving health outcomes in the healthcare space

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop foundational software architecture
  • Drive platform development across front-end and back-end
  • Collaborate with the founding team and customers to define product roadmap
  • Conduct user interviews and implement feedback for product improvement
  • Take ownership of a tech stack segment, ensuring simplicity and scalability

Benefits

  • Generous equity package
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with FSA & HSA options
  • Access to healthcare resources like One Medical and Peloton
  • Short & long-term disability insurance and life insurance
  • Unlimited PTO policy
  • Engaging team activities and retreats
Full Job Description
The Role

We are looking for a mission-driven, full-stack software engineer with 4+ years of professional experience to join Loula as a full-time founding software engineer. This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about their work making a positive impact and who's excited about having autonomy and ownership at an early-stage startup. You'll be joining a small team of founding engineers, where you'll not only drive the product forward but also help shape Loula's culture and future.

What You'll Do
  • Implement software architecture: Design and develop the foundational architecture of Loula's software systems.
  • Lead product development: Drive the development of Loula's platform, including front-end and back-end components.
  • Define the product roadmap: Collaborate closely with the founding team and Loula customers to draft, develop, and refine a robust product roadmap.
  • Talk to customers: Conduct user interviews, shadow users, and implement feedback to continuously improve the product.
  • Technical Leadership: Take ownership of a portion of the tech stack and ensure the systems are simple, extensible, and scalable.


You are
  • An experienced full-stack software engineer who's built products from the ground up. Bonus points if you've worked in startups, worked on early-stage products through launch, led a technical team, and/or worked in digital health before.
  • Energized by a user-centric product development approach. You love talking to customers to understand their needs, how they think, and how they use the product to inform the the product roadmap.
  • Independent and proactive. You are able to work independently and without explicit direction to make well-informed decisions and deploy key projects without sacrificing quality.
  • Mission driven. Working with health insurance isn't the most glamorous path, but you are deeply driven by our mission to improve health outcomes for new families by empowering the professionals who care for them. You bring an ownership mentality, collaborative approach, and positivity and optimism to the work.


Your Experience

You have 4+ years of software engineering experience , building scalable systems from the ground up. Ideally you've built in the healthcare space before, but we're open to adjacent backgrounds if you're genuinely excited about the space. Specifically, you've:
  • Built products from the ground up at early-stage startups or you've been a member of an early founding team at a startup.
  • Prioritized, scoped, and planned new products and features in collaboration with product management, user research, and design teams.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with sales, operations, and customer success teams to build internal tools and make product improvements.


Tech Stack
  • Frontend: React, Vercel
  • Backend: Typescript, NestJS, Drizzle ORM
  • CI/CD: Docker/Dockerhub, Github actions
  • Database: Postgres
  • Hosting provider: AWS, Aptible
  • Internal tooling: Retool


💟 Benefits
  • $140k+ annual salary
  • Generous equity package
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage - FSA & HSA options
  • Access to One Medical, Talkiatry, Peloton, Kindbody, and more
  • Short & Long term disability insurance, Life insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Team fun! Dinners, activities, retreats


Location

California or New York preferred but remote is welcome.

About Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a venture capital firm that provides seed funding, mentorship, and resources to early-stage startups. The company was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Morris, and has since funded over 2,000 startups, including Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe. Y Combinator's mission is to help startups succeed by providing them with the tools and resources they need to grow and scale their businesses.
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