Founding Software Engineer — Equity & Impact in Healthcare

Hera; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding equity

Job summary

Hera is building a new healthcare role ecosystem in New York City, seeking a founding software engineer to shape end-to-end platform—from backend systems to frontend experiences. You’ll work directly with our founding team in person in NYC on a mission to serve families with trusted, expert care.

You’ll solve hard problems with strong ownership, build with care for data sensitivity and compliance, and contribute to a culture that rewards initiative and high-impact outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience designing sound systems and delivering high-quality product experiences.
• Strong product craft, interaction design, UI polish, and user experience.
• Care about how software looks and feels and how users engage with it.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core backend systems to underpin Hera’s product and operations.
• Own and build core frontend product experiences across Hera’s platform.
• Build for reliability and correctness with fault-tolerant, secure workflows.
• Translate craft and taste into product quality and strong ship standards.
• Work closely with users—Heroes, families, and internal users—for context.
• Own critical data and infrastructure decisions across medical, billing, and user data.
• Help set engineering standards and foster an autonomous, high-trust culture.
• Operate with high autonomy, moving quickly and taking responsibility.

Skills

Backend fundamentals

Frontend fundamentals

Security awareness

Ownership & autonomy

User proximity

Design-minded product

Technical fluency

Job description

Hera is building a new healthcare role ecosystem in New York City, seeking a founding software engineer to shape end-to-end platform—from backend systems to frontend experiences. You’ll work directly with our founding team in person in NYC on a mission to serve families with trusted, expert care.

You’ll solve hard problems with strong ownership, build with care for data sensitivity and compliance, and contribute to a culture that rewards initiative and high-impact outcomes.