About Our Client: Mission Driven + Backed by Top Investors and Advisors
Our client, Pairtu, is a newly funded, stealth company on a mission to transform healthcare navigation in the U.S. They’re a mission-focused company dedicated to creating a better life for every American.
- The Founder: 2x founder with a passion for healthcare. Ex-Facebook, ex-product growth at VivaReal ($600m exit), YC alum, and Harvard biology grad.
- How They Operate: We believe in conscious leadership, getting stuff done (GSD), and being results-focused while iterating and shipping as fast as possible.
- Investors / Advisors: Well-funded and lean with top angels and advisors.
Their Vision:
Empower every American with a patient navigator to handle their healthcare needs. We’re building an AI-powered platform for care navigators/patient advocates in a massively underserved market, addressing the 90% of Americans who struggle with healthcare literacy.
Their team seeks exceptional individuals driven to make a meaningful impact. This role is not for those prioritizing comfort or pay; Pairtu is seeking people who are passionate, high-performing, and inspired to excel daily. They are going to avoid corporate excess, stay lean, and maintain a singular focus on creating a beneficial product that aligns with their mission.
The Role:
Pairtu is looking for a Founding Engineer who’ll build and architect our platform from day 1 — a technical leader who has a deep computer science and software engineering background. You have spent time building and scaling software at tech-focused companies, where you are seen as the go-to technical leader by your peers. You enjoy being product-minded, building and shipping best-in-class software that solves important problems for your customers. Strong software-oriented background/acumen, preferably with specific SaaS experience
- Demonstrated technical leadership experience (ideally in healthcare)
- Experience hiring and building world-class technology teams
- Experience with building and launching high-quality products from ideation to iteration. Having product sense and thinking about trade-offs, user needs, and business outcomes is critical.
What you'll do:
- Lead company's technical roadmap, helping prioritize features and develop launch timeframes that will set the business up for success.
- Approximately 80%+ of your time will be spent SHIPPING aka coding and launching features and services for company’s website, patient app, stack backend, and 3rd-party integrations.
- Clear understanding of what needs to be built vs outsourced.
- Plan, architect, write, test, and comment their code well
- Eliminate ambiguity to ensure that agency decisions are balancing expediency with quality, minimizing technical debt while building a quality product.
- Support partner ecosystem technical due diligence while ensuring the Voice of the customer.
What you'll need:
- 4+ years of experience of full-stack web development with Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, Elixir/Phoenix or similar. Additionally: min 2+ years with Javascript / React / HTML / CSS or equivalent front-end technologies
- Experience in a startup or high growth environment or a start-up mindset in a larger organization.
- You know how to ask the right questions and can take vague product requirements to build something that will delight our users.
- You can make tradeoffs and feel confident making decisions to balance speed, quality, and the needs of the business.
- You know best practices when it comes to security.
- Know some devops ( AWS, GCP) or used Platform-as-a-service provider (Aptible, Fly.io)
- Experience with building and using RESTful APIs, understanding of data schema design, and understanding performance pitfalls. Experience with Relational Databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL or equivalent).
- Experience with Agile development and comfortable decomposing complex problem statements.
- Nice to haves: healthcare experience
What you'll bring to the table:
- You are excited about keeping things simple.
- Want and desire to design and architect something from scratch.
- You are a structured thinker; you have a method to analyze a problem and solve it in a way so others can see how you think and follow your train of thought clearly.
- You are consumer/ oriented; you focus solutions around real user/consumer needs, not around technical novelty.
- You have a strong communication style with both technical and non-technical team members.
Who you are:
- Action Oriented. You readily take action on new opportunities with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm. You display a can-do attitude, and step up to handle tough issues.
- Manages Ambiguity. You deal comfortably with the uncertainty of change, and are calm and productive, even when things are up in the air.
- Drives Results. You persist in accomplishing objectives and exceeding goals despite obstacles and setbacks, while also helping others to achieve results.
Our Culture + Company values:
We have a distributed culture, mainly working out of the Americas timezone. We strive to be diverse in thinking, in hiring, and in how we tackle problems. Operating excellently for our clients is our number one priority and building great products is critical.
- Human connection: We’re bringing healthy human relating into the world as a healing modality, and we prioritize healthy relating within our team and in everything we do.
- Playful creativity: We bring levity, fun, and playfulness to our work.
- Excellence: in executing, thinking, writing, and communicating.
- Stop the ego: hard conversations and ripping the bandaid earlier than later. Uplift each other.
- Outwork smartly, competitive for our customers: Impact is driven that's measured on driving benefit to the end customer.
- Conscious Leadership Values: 15 commitment to conscious leadership
Compensation:
- Competitive salary and equity for early stage and based on experience.
- Every offer will have 3 options: High equity, mid equity, low equity