Founding Backend Engineer

Recruiting From Scratch; New York (NY); Remote; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Founding Platform Engineer to lead the design and development of impactful software solutions. This role involves building robust infrastructures for health insurance systems, optimizing payment processes, and enhancing patient savings technology. Join a passionate team dedicated to transforming healthcare for small and medium-sized businesses, where your contributions directly influence success. With a focus on autonomy and ownership, this position offers a unique opportunity to shape product strategy in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. If you're driven by challenging problems and want to make a difference, this is the role for you.

Benefits

100%-paid health insurance benefits

Free lunches in the office

Fun company retreats

Commuter benefits

Equity and employee revenue share

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as a full-stack or backend engineer.
• Experience in building software from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software that impacts clients and improves operations.
• Develop high-performance server architecture for health insurance quoting.

Skills

Python

Postgres

Typescript

React

AWS Services

Job description

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.

https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/

About Us

We’re transforming health insurance for small and medium-sized businesses across the U.S. Our mission is to make healthcare more affordable by driving innovation at every level of health plan design. We are bringing affordable, high-quality, long-term oriented, and ethical health insurance to employers.

2024 marked our breakthrough year: we hit profitability, found strong market fit, and brought affordable healthcare to more than 200 businesses and their employees.

We’re a small but mighty team bringing wide-ranging expertise:

• Developing mission-critical software at Palantir

• Scaling a Y Combinator startup from the very first hire to Series A (50+ employees)

• Creating actuarial models used by major health insurers

• Leading patient operations teams at a high-growth health plan startup

Role

As the Founding Platform Engineer, you’ll design and build software that impacts our clients and improves internal operations.

Some projects you'll be driving:

• Quoting API Infrastructure: Build and scale the high-performance server architecture powering our health insurance quoting system. Design robust infrastructure that processes millions of daily data points while delivering fast, reliable quotes to customers.

• Financial Intelligence Engine: Build a sophisticated system that accurately identifies the sources of hundreds of thousands in weekly premium payments—solving what traditional ACH rails can't. Your technology will automatically engage late payers and streamline complex payment reconciliation, turning a manual headache into an automated strength.

• Patient Savings Technology: Engineer automated systems that identify cost-saving opportunities for patients and deliver timely, educational outreach—with documented savings often reaching tens of thousands of dollars per patient

• Broker Engagement Platform: Develop LLM-powered systems that generate personalized broker communications, including orchestration tools and campaign infrastructure that drive conversion.

Qualifications

• Experience building products: You have at least 2+ years of experience working as a full-stack or backend engineer, and you have experience in building software from the ground up (i.e., actively involved in making architectural decisions, planning, scoping, etc.)

• Modeling operational workflows: You have previously modeled operational workflows and translated them into software.

• Be efficient: You show an interest in using the best tool for the job. Our current favorites are Python, Postgres, Typescript, React, and other AWS services for our infrastructure.

• Ownership & Prioritization: You don't just want to knock out tasks but want to shape our holistic product strategy by making sound feature decisions and prioritizations. You're thinking beyond the immediate engineering challenges in how your work links with our mission.

• Autonomy: You like to work with a high degree of autonomy. You know how to break a complex problem down into tasks and how to prioritize what needs to be done first.

• Passion: You enjoy working on challenging problems and go above and beyond (we work hard). You care about your work and enjoy being intellectually challenged. You want to solve problems in health care and insurance.

• The Extra: We love people who have worked at a startup / previously ran a startup, or want to found one in the future!

What we offer

• A fast-paced environment with steep learning opportunity

• A collaborative team that's greatly motivated by our mission and the problems we work on

• The direct impact of your work on the business - our broker facing software is key to our success, and we win or lose with the quality of our product

• Ownership in the form of equity and employee revenue share

• ... and the usual tech startup benefits - 100%-paid health insurance benefits, free lunches in the office, fun company retreats, commuter benefits, etc.

Compensation:

Base: $160-220k base + equity.

Benefits: 100%-paid health insurance benefits, free lunches in the office, fun company retreats, commuter benefits, etc.

https://www.recruitingfromscratch.com/