Founding Product Engineer - HealthTech

Open Select; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Technical autonomy

Collaborative team environment

Job summary

A healthcare technology company is looking for a Founding Product Engineer to join their mission-driven team in New York. This role involves architecting and building intuitive healthcare products, owning features end-to-end, and applying cutting-edge AI to improve patient outcomes. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of experience in engineering, a CS degree, and is skilled across the stack including Figma, TypeScript, and React. The role offers meaningful equity and a collaborative environment where your contributions significantly impact healthcare.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a full-stack or product engineer in startups.
• Proven track record of building and shipping products.
• Detail-oriented and passionate about user experience.

Responsibilities

• Build high-quality healthcare products from prototype to production.
• Own features end-to-end and shape technical vision.
• Apply AI to solve complex challenges in healthcare.

Skills

Full-stack development

Product engineering

Figma

TypeScript

React

HTML/CSS

Python

Go

Postgres

User experience

Education

CS degree from a top 40 university

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 0→1 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.

Open to US Citizens, Green Card holders, and TN Visa holders only.