Software Engineer, Clover Health
Office of the CEO
$180-235k
More information about location
Medicare provider
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Medicare provider
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-235k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve the quality of life of our members and physicians by reducing doctor-insurer friction and increasing visibility into the health of each patient, leading to improved care.
Role
Who you are
- If you’ve seen the failings of the healthcare industry from the outside and want to apply your engineering skills to fixing one of the world’s most fascinating flawed systems, this is your chance to make a difference
- No prior healthcare experience is required. Apply and learn how you can build the technical systems that change the healthcare system in a way that really matters
- You have experience building and shipping systems: web, data, mobile, machine learning, desktop apps, systems engineering, you name it
- You’ve spent several years with data systems, and have a good working knowledge of relational database design, data modeling, data warehousing, and data processing
- You are highly practical. The most important thing is that it works for the business. The technology is exciting, but the outcomes are even more exciting
- You love to build. You take joy in seeing something come to life, grow, and succeed
- You are humble and collegial: strong opinions, weakly held. You like to work with other engineers, you love to share and learn
- You adapt easily to context shifts and interruptions. While our themes are strong, we often need to pitch in across many areas
- You’ve tinkered with, or built, systems that use generative AI, and are excited to explore how to apply it constructively toward business outcomes
What the job involves
- We’re hiring several earnest, high-agency engineers into the technical staff of the Office of the CEO—a small, interdisciplinary team of analysts, engineers, and strategists—to drive Clover’s most critical technology initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes
- Our CEO is an engineer, and we believe that engineering principles can drive the change our company and industry needs
- This is a rare role designed for someone who thrives at the intersection of product, applied generative AI, data, and software engineering, and who understands that there are no perfect solutions, only trade-offs. You’ll work with AI and healthcare data in close contact with our CEO to build systems that matter and help shape decisions across the healthcare ecosystem
- Build from zero-to-one: Prove concepts to show what is possible. Collaboratively design and build whole new systems, sometimes using existing components, sometimes from scratch
- Ship the full stack: Deliver technology that spans infrastructure, data, generative AI, conventional machine learning, backend systems, and many different kinds of user interfaces
- Lay foundations: Many of the early concepts we explore will grow to be long-term systems. Make decisions to stand the test of time
- Learn from the past: Our technology goes back about 10 years, and we have learned and tried a lot. Learn the mistakes that new healthtech startups make without the deep technical debt of much older companies
- Learn from each other: Be part of a small, elite, engaged, collegial, and supportive team that helps each other make the best decisions we can
- Tinker. Experiment. Understand why things work, and make them better
- Success in this role looks like:
- First 90 days: Quickly grasp Clover's existing technology and data systems. Understand your building blocks and use them to deliver several small, high-value projects hand-picked by the CEO
- First 6 months: Settle into a longer-term area of ownership, picking one of several potential roadmaps to drive. Begin execution and land some of your first major milestones
- First year: Deliver scalable solutions in your area of focus. Your well-architected systems will allow additional members of the technical staff to join and productively scale outcomes
Our take
Clover Health is a medical insurance company operating as a Preferred Provider Orgaization for Medicare Advantage, the Medicare plan for elderly American citizens. It aims to reduce the doctor-insurer friction to increase visibility into the health of patients.
Through its approach, Clover's physicians are able to focus on people, rather than paperwork. It has a patient-centered analytics and dedicated care management team, and thus is able to rapidly identify potential healthcare risks to provide preventative care. This helps to provide a more sophisticated level of care than existing providers, even if its market share is relatively slim compared to competitors like UnitedHealthcare and Humana.
Over the years it has performed well in a rapidly growing market, but in 2021 ran into issues with profitability in the market due to inefficient costings, an issue it is steadily nipping in the bud in 2023. However, the number of elderly Americans has doubled over the past 25 years, and the market is expected to do the same between now and 2025. This upward trend brings hope of revitalising the growth and strong financial performance Clover has seen in recent years, especially as it focuses more on profitability through 2023.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2019
$500m
SERIES E
May 2017
$130m
SERIES D
Total funding: $925m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave and a life insurance policy
- Commuter benefit program
- 2 paid volunteer days for an organization of your choice
- 401(k) contributions
- Home office reimbursement for full-time employees
- 18 paid vacation days, 9 paid sick days, 10 company holidays, and a floating holiday
- Medical, dental, and vision plans; healthcare and dependent care FSA as well as a health and wellness benefit
Company HQ
Downtown, Nashville, TN
Leadership
Vivek Garipalli
(CEO & Board Member)They started out in Healthcare Investment Banking with Credit Suisse before joining the Blackstone Group. They also worked in Private Equity at J.P. Morgan, and co-founded Ensemble Health Partners and CarePoint Health System.
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