Backend Engineer, HealthLeap AI

$200-275k

AWS

Python

Java

Kafka

Postgres

REST API

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3 days a week in office

AI screening platform supporting clinicians

Open for applications

AI screening platform supporting clinicians

1-20 employees

HealthcareB2BNutritionSaaSMedTech

Open for applications

$200-275k

AWS

Python

Java

Kafka

Postgres

REST API

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

3 days a week in office

1-20 employees

HealthcareB2BNutritionSaaSMedTech

Company mission

Proactive data-driven insights to enable clinicians to focus on what matters most.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

5+ years backend engineering experience
Deep experience with distributed systems and highly concurrent workloads
Solid with databases, data pipelines, ETL processing
Comfortable with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code
You figure things out - even when documentation doesn't exist
You've operated production systems, not just built them

Desirable

Experience with healthcare data standards (FHIR, HL7v2)
Background in LLM infrastructure or applied AI systems
Familiarity with Terraform, security, compliance

What the job involves

You've built systems that handle real scale - not toy projects, real data, real users, real uptime requirements
You've debugged distributed systems at 2am
You've dealt with messy third-party APIs that had no documentation
You're the person who figures things out when the docs don't help
Build data pipelines that process millions of patient records daily
Parse 50,000+ clinical notes per patient using LLMs - without hallucinating
Integrate with hospital EHR systems (Epic, Cerner) - notoriously difficult, poorly documented
Own infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes - deploy it, monitor it, fix it when it breaks
Design systems for high concurrency and reliability - clinicians depend on this every morning
Make hospital implementations easier to spin up and scale

Application process

Intro call - Get to know each other
Technical - 1-2 interviews on system design (architecture, not coding)
Onsite - Coding, case study, team meet
Decision - Same week as onsite

Our take

Founded after witnessing the tragic effects of untreated malnutrition in hospitals, HealthLeap AI aims to develop AI-assisted tools for healthcare professionals to better address hospital malnutrition. One such tool is the app NutriLeap, used by dieticians to enhance their assessment of a patient’s nutritional needs.

Typically, this work is done by hand but HealthLeap provides productivity-based solutions for often understaffed dietetics, enabling them to deliver efficient and bespoke treatment to patients. With the pandemic accelerating healthcare professionals’ use of digital tools, HealthLeap is positioned to capture a significant market share with its software.

With seed funding awarded in 2022, HealthLeap is now working to provide discharged patients with adequate aftercare, informing them of any changing nutritional needs, key to reducing hospital readmissions. Currently focused on the US market, HealthLeap's goal is to eradicate hospital malnutrition globally.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (1 round)

Jan 2022

$1.1m

SEED

Total funding: $1.1m

Company benefits

Compensation: Market-leading salaries - we want the best
Equity: Meaningful ownership in an early-stage company
Healthcare: 100% of premiums covered for employees
Unlimited PTO: Unlimited, with recommended minimum of 20 days
401(k): We match 4% - your future matters
Equipment: Laptop + budget to set up your home office

Company HQ

West Oakland, Oakland, CA

Leadership

Jemima Meyer

(Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer)

Prior to co-founding HealthLeap in 2022, Jemima was a Community Service Dietitian in the South African National Defence Force. She also spent 3 years as a Freelance Journalist at Media24 where she wrote pieces about Africa, social issues, and protest movements.

Josiah Meyer

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Josiah started professionally as a Strategy Consultant for Boston Consulting Group before joining Invictus Capital as their first Product Manager. He spent two months prior to founding HealthLeap as Head of Product at Yellow Card App.

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