Founding Product Engineer

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

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Founding Product Engineer to design and build impactful software solutions. This role offers the chance to work on a variety of projects including a quoting platform and analytics tools, all while driving innovation in healthcare. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in full-stack development and a passion for solving complex problems. Join a collaborative team dedicated to making healthcare more affordable and experience the direct impact of your work on the business. This is a unique opportunity to shape product strategy and enjoy a fast-paced environment with significant learning potential.

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 engineer.
• Experience in building web applications and modeling workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build software that impacts clients and improves internal operations.
• Work on quoting platform, broker analytics tools, and automation systems.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Web application development

Operational workflow modeling

Typescript

React

React Native

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 Product Engineer, you’ll design and build software that impacts our clients and improves internal operations. You’ll work on our quoting platform, broker analytics tools, integrations with partners, and automation systems for claims and policy administration.

This role requires more than technical skills — we’re looking for a software engineer with a product-focused mindset who understands user needs and delivers solutions that enhance both client experience and operational efficiency.

Qualifications:

• Experience building products: You have at least 2+ years of experience working as a full-stack engineer, and you have experience in building well-designed web applications 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 Typescript, React, React Native, 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/