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Healthcare/Insurance Startup Founding Software Engineer

Policybot New York, NY

New York, NY

1mo ago Closed

$130k - $160k/yr Full time Backend Developer API APIs

This position is no longer accepting applications (closed Jun 23, 2026).

Job Description

Policybot is seeking a founding software engineer to design and build the data platform for healthcare payer policy data. You will own end-to-end ingestion, AI powered processing, and core platform development. The role is based in New York City with in office attendance three days per week.

Responsibilities

Design ingestion pipelines to transform unstructured payer policies into structured, queryable objects
Define evolving data schemas that maintain downstream compatibility while upholding data quality
Apply AI to scale the data ingestion workflow across hundreds of health insurers
Develop pipelines that provide auditability, traceability, and explainability
Build and refine LLM powered data pipelines to extract and structure data elements from raw text for more usable policy data
Create systems for evaluating and benchmarking LLM driven features, including evaluation harnesses, QA workflows, and human validation loops
Enhance search capabilities by implementing retrieval augmented generation pipelines over healthcare policy documents; explore embeddings, vector databases, and fine tuning strategies
Rapidly prototype, determine what works, transition successful approaches to production, and discard the rest
Navigate ambiguous problems by asking clarifying questions until the underlying goal is understood
Prioritize data quality and usability over flashy features, making pragmatic tradeoffs
Demonstrate end to end product ownership, ensuring new technology is integrated into the company and product beyond code deployment
Leverage AI to scale work and improve overall organizational efficiency

Requirements

Minimum 5 years of experience building data heavy backend systems
Proven track record with data pipelines and data driven software products
Strong proficiency with Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, and modern cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Experience building AI native products including LLMs, RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, hallucination mitigation, data labeling, evaluations, and monitoring
Product oriented with the ability to weigh technical changes against business value
Fluency in designing and evolving data models, schemas, and APIs for long term maintainability
Proven ability to transform ambiguous problems into defined requirements, map ideal architecture, and execute end to end
Experience designing and building backend infrastructure for scalability
Ability to operate, manage, plan, and run projects independently
Thrives in a fast paced, ambiguous environment

Technologies

Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
AWS
Snowflake
Terraform
TypeScript
React
FastAPI

Benefits

Founding equity
Medical coverage
401K
Learning stipend
Unlimited PTO

Bonus Points

Exposure to healthcare, payer or health tech data
Prior startup, research team, or high paced environment experience
Willingness to rapidly learn new tools, frameworks, and AI systems
Frontend development experience with TypeScript/React
Experience building high throughput applications on FastAPI
Experience working with data warehouses such as Snowflake
Exposure to Infrastructure as Code and container orchestration

Why Join Policybot

Join a small, ambitious team where you will influence architecture, culture, and velocity from day one. You will work directly with the founders to tackle challenging data problems in healthcare, experiment with cutting edge AI tools, and own systems that form the backbone of a new data infrastructure category in healthcare.

Application Question(s)

This role requires on site attendance. Are you within commuting distance of New York City?

Job Type

Full-time

Salary

USD 130,000 - 160,000 per year

Location

Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10001

Experience

Professional engineering: 3 years (Required)
Professional Python programming: 2 years (Required)

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