Software Engineer at Recruiting from Scratch in New York, New York, Onsite

Job description

• Join an extremely early-stage engineering team where individual contributions directly affect company growth.
• Own entire product surfaces rather than narrowly scoped engineering tasks.
• Work directly with the CTO on architecture, product direction, and execution.
• Operate as your own PM, designer, and engineer.
• Build an AI-native product addressing major challenges in outpatient healthcare.
• Work on technical problems at the intersection of AI, software engineering, and healthcare delivery.
• Build systems from 0-to-1 and see features move rapidly from idea to production.
• Work in an environment where engineering is a primary driver of business growth.
• Gain unusually broad product and technical ownership early in your career.
• Use modern AI tools to dramatically increase engineering velocity.
• Join a small, high-ownership team where there is significant room for growth and responsibility.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Product Engineering
• Own features and product surfaces from initial problem definition through design, implementation, deployment, and iteration.
• Act as your own product manager by identifying requirements, defining solutions, and determining priorities.
• Make UX and product decisions alongside technical architecture decisions.
• Build, ship, and iterate on production features quickly based on customer and business needs.
• Take ownership of entire areas of the product rather than working on narrowly scoped tickets.
• Balance product quality, engineering speed, and customer impact in a fast-moving environment.
• Backend Engineering & AI Systems
• Build and scale core backend systems powering an AI-enabled healthcare platform.
• Develop production software using Python and modern backend engineering practices.
• Work on AI/ML-powered product capabilities and integrate intelligent systems into healthcare workflows.
• Design APIs, services, data models, and system architectures for a rapidly growing platform.
• Build reliable systems capable of supporting increasing customer and patient demand.
• Work across application and infrastructure layers as needed to deliver complete product functionality.
• 0-to-1 Product Development
• Take ambiguous problems and turn them into concrete technical and product solutions.
• Work closely with the CTO to architect and deliver new product capabilities.
• Rapidly prototype, test, learn, and iterate on new ideas.
• Build features that may require technical research and experimentation before becoming production-ready.
• Identify opportunities to use AI tools and automation to increase engineering velocity.
• Continuously improve existing systems as customer requirements and product needs evolve.
• Product Ownership & Business Impact
• Work directly with leadership to prioritize engineering efforts against business goals.
• Understand customer needs and translate them into practical product solutions.
• Make independent decisions about technical implementation, product scope, and tradeoffs.
• Own outcomes rather than simply completing assigned engineering tasks.
• Help determine what should be built next based on customer demand and business impact.
• Contribute to the evolution of the engineering organization as the company scales.

Requirements

• 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals despite relatively early career stage.
• Experience building and shipping production software.
• Strong backend engineering experience.
• Experience working in a startup, early-stage company, or highly autonomous engineering environment is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership beyond assigned tickets.
• Experience working on ambiguous technical problems.
• Evidence of rapid career growth, increasing scope, or exceptional ownership.
• Comfortable working directly with senior technical leadership.
• Experience working in 0-to-1 or rapidly evolving product environments is a strong plus.
• Strong Python experience.
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals.
• Experience designing and building APIs and backend services.
• Strong understanding of system design fundamentals.
• Experience working with databases and data models.
• Experience building and maintaining production software.
• Familiarity with AI/ML systems or AI-powered applications.
• Ability to understand and contribute to technical architecture decisions.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable using modern AI development tools to increase engineering productivity.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.
• Experience owning features from idea through production.
• Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into technical solutions.
• Strong product sense and willingness to make product decisions.
• Comfortable operating without a dedicated product manager for every feature.
• Ability to balance engineering quality with speed and business priorities.
• Experience working directly with users, customers, or internal stakeholders is preferred.
• Strong understanding of how technical decisions affect product outcomes.
• Comfortable working across multiple layers of the stack when necessary.
• Experience building products in environments where rapid iteration is important.
• Soft Skills
• Extremely high ownership and initiative.
• Comfortable operating independently with minimal management.
• Strong curiosity and willingness to learn.
• Fast learner who can quickly understand unfamiliar systems.
• Strong communication skills.
• Comfortable working directly with the CTO and senior leadership.
• Product-minded and business-oriented.
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
• Strong prioritization skills.
• High execution speed.
• Comfortable taking responsibility for both successes and failures.
• Willing to challenge assumptions and propose better solutions.
• Thrives in small, high-performance teams.

Skills

Required

• Strong Python experience
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals

Benefits

• $180,000 – $220,000 base salary.
• Performance-based bonus.
• 0.75%–1.25% equity.
• OTE of approximately $250,000 – $335,000.
• Potential total compensation of $350K+ for exceptional performance.
• Full-time position.
• Fully on-site work environment in Manhattan, New York.
• Opportunity to join as one of the earliest engineers on the team.
• Significant product and technical ownership.
• Direct collaboration with the CTO.