Founding Sr Backend Engineer

Company: Neon Health is a mission-driven company dedicated to making life-saving drugs more accessible. We are building a transformative healthcare enterprise, on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow, focused on serving the largest healthcare organizations. Our AI-powered platform automates critical patient access workflows, including benefit verification, prior authorization, financial assistance, patient onboarding, care coordination, and adherence support. This leads to onboarding patients to therapies 2X faster and at an 80% lower cost. We are profitable, growing rapidly, and securing 7+ figure contracts with enterprise healthcare customers. Our team comprises exited founders, YC & MIT alumni, and former engineers from Tesla and Google. Neon Health is backed by elite Silicon Valley VCs (investors in DoorDash, Lyft, Mammoth Biosciences) and strategic healthcare investors with deep industry connections. Neon Health emphasizes enterprise-grade compliance, security (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2), and reliability, integrating with existing EHR, CCaaS & backend systems. Their AI agents handle phone calls with human-like conversation, aiming to automate up to 99% of calls and improve HEDIS scores.

Role: We are seeking a Founding Sr Backend Engineer to join our A-player team. This is an opportunity to do the best work of your career, significantly impacting patient lives by getting life-saving drugs to those who need them. You will be working at the cutting edge intersection of agentic AI and healthcare transformation. As a Founding Sr Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and scaling the backend systems that power our AI-driven healthcare platform. This includes building robust and efficient APIs, working with large datasets, ensuring system reliability, and contributing to the architectural decisions that will shape the future of our technology. You will play a pivotal role in developing our agentic AI capabilities.

Ideal Candidate: The ideal candidate is a highly skilled backend engineer with significant experience in building complex, scalable systems. You should be passionate about leveraging technology, particularly AI, to solve real-world problems in healthcare. Experience with AI/ML systems, cloud platforms, and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset are highly desirable. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to contribute to a founding team's success.

Impact: If you want to work on a team of A-player athletes, doing the best work of your career, and helping get life-saving drugs to the people who need them, this role offers an outsized impact and opportunity. Work at the intersection of agentic AI, healthcare transformation, and life-changing patient outcomes.