Front End Engineer, Hopscotch Health
Healthcare for rural communities
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Healthcare for rural communities
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform lives in rural communities through accessible and proactive value-based care.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will blend technical execution, effective cross-functional collaboration, and an ownership mindset to excel in our fast-paced, dynamic environment
- 3–5 years of professional front end engineering experience using JavaScript/TypeScript, React (or similar) and component-based UI development, ideally with Healthcare experience
- Experience supporting a hybrid model of in-house development and vended solutions
- Experience with state management, API integration, and rendering data-rich interfaces
- Experience working with backend systems or data tools to shape or transform data (ex. SQL, Python, dbt, or similar)
- Familiarity with working with healthcare data sources, different interfaces and clinical workflow software including EHR, population health tools, patient portals, and clinical decision support technology
- Familiarity with front end testing frameworks
- Experience in a start-up or high-growth environment, ideally in healthcare
- A results-driven mindset, focusing time and resources against the most impactful priorities
- A concise and articulate communication style, breaking complex concepts down both verbally and in writing
- Customer-focused with a passion for serving patients and providers who make healthcare possible
- Agile, yet thoughtful, and can work effectively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Constantly seeking ways to simplify and improve current processes, bringing a positive attitude to challenges
- Accountable, holding yourself and others to a high standard and seeking to support and develop others
- Willing to roll up your sleeves to support the work required and collaborate effectively with people of all backgrounds
- Reliable, driving towards clarity and delivering on your commitments
- Energized by building relationships and finding creative solutions to arrive at mutually beneficial outcomes
- Comfortable with ambiguity and bring a structured, proactive approach to getting things done
What the job involves
- Hopscotch Primary Care is looking for a skilled Front End Engineer to support our Engineering and Product teams at a pivotal moment in our growth
- Our data-driven care model relies on a strong technical foundation to power our clinical operations, analytics, and patient engagement
- This role will play a critical role in building a best-in-class product ecosystem that scales as we grow across new markets
- In our highly collaborative team, you will work closely with Product, Operations, Growth and Clinical teams to execute our technology roadmap
- Develop and maintain applications, ensuring high performance, scalability, and accessibility
- Design and implement ‘last-mile’ data pipelines to enrich or re-shape backend data for optimal use in applications
- Collaborate with design and product teams to translate wireframes and prototypes into high-quality code
- Build, evolve and maintain our design system and component library in partnership with product
- Support code reviews, testing, and documentation to ensure high standards across the tech stack
- Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks or UX issues
- Contribute to front end technical strategy, system architecture, and internal documentation for long-term scalability
- Develop a deep understanding of the current architecture and technology roadmap
- Build relationships with cross-functional partners and effectively communicate about priorities and work product
Our take
Hopscotch Health is a MedTech startup setting its sights on addressing the healthcare needs of rural communities. Alarming statistics from the CDC highlight that individuals in these regions face a significantly higher risk of succumbing to heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and strokes.
While the concept of value-based healthcare, a model where healthcare providers are compensated based on patient health outcomes rather than sheer sales and services, is gaining traction and efficacy in urban areas, rural communities continue to lag behind, mirroring the disparities seen in traditional healthcare frameworks.
Despite being in early development, Hopscotch Health's trajectory largely hinges on its ability to establish valuable partnerships with payers, healthcare providers, practitioners, and the communities themselves. Nevertheless, there is ample room for optimism, given the substantial potential within an underserved market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company HQ
West Loop Gate, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Tim Gronniger
(CEO)Previously spent 7 years at Caravan Health, as a Senior VP, President, then CEO. Prior to that, they were a Chief Value-Based Solutions Officer at Signify Health, a Principal at Piney Brand Strategies. and a Deputy Chief of Staff at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. They also served as a Senior Adviser for Health Care Policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council and as Professional Staff as the US House of Representatives.
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