Junior Software Engineer, Waymark
$82-137k
Salary dependent on location. Plus stock options.
Community-based care for people receiving Medicaid
Be an early applicant
Community-based care for people receiving Medicaid
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$82-137k
Salary dependent on location. Plus stock options.
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help people enrolled in Medicaid programs find their way to better health through evidence-based community care.
Role
Who you are
- Some experience building software — through professional work, internships, bootcamps, or substantial personal projects
- Familiarity with at least one modern web application framework (e.g. React, Next.js, Phoenix, or similar)
- Familiarity with Git and version control workflows
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- No prior Elixir experience required — we'll teach it
- If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every preferred qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!
Desirable
- Experience with functional programming
- Familiarity with testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
- Interest in healthcare technology and improving health outcomes
- Comfort working in a fast-paced, mission-driven startup environment
What the job involves
- At Waymark, software engineers build the products that enable care delivery teams — community health workers, social workers, pharmacists, and care coordinators — to support people with Medicaid benefits
- As a Junior Software Engineer, you'll be paired with a senior engineer who will mentor you as you build real features and fixes from day one
- You'll write code, participate in code reviews, and learn how our systems fit together
- We want someone who is curious, asks hard questions, and brings fresh perspectives — we'll invest in your growth as you contribute to meaningful work
- This is a role for someone early in their engineering career who wants to do work that matters
- Ship features and fixes to our messaging platform, built in Elixir
- Work through bug tickets across our stack (React, TypeScript, Elixir)
- Set up a local development environment that mirrors production
- Participate in sprint planning and refinement, managing your work in Jira
- Contribute to code reviews on GitHub and keep your team informed in standups
- Collaborate with senior engineers, product, and design on upcoming feature planning
- Work with PostgreSQL as part of our production data layer
Application process
- Offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Employment history and advance degree verification (when applicable) are included as part of the standard background check process
Our take
Over 80M people in the US receive healthcare coverage from Medicaid (a number that continues to grow), yet care is delivered through a highly fragmented network of independent primary care providers (PCPs). These providers often lack the infrastructure and coordination needed to effectively manage complex, high-need populations.
Waymark is addressing this gap by building a tech-enabled care model that combines data infrastructure with embedded clinical support. Rather than acting purely as a software layer, the company partners with health plans and PCPs to both coordinate and deliver care, deploying teams that include community health workers, pharmacists, care coordinators, and behavioral health specialists. Allowing Waymark not just to facilitate communication (e.g.. between doctors and pharmacist managing a diabetic patient's medications), but to actively support ongoing care.
A core part of Waymark's approach is using predicative analytics to identify "rising-risk" patients, those who are not yet high-cost but are likely to become so without intervention. By intervening earlier, the company aims to prevent avoidable hospitalizations and improve long-term outcomes, effectively expanding provider capacity for underserved populations.
Having now moved beyond early pilots, Waymark is scaling through value-based partnerships with Medicaid managed care organizations, working across tens of thousands of patients. While challenges remain in translating proven models to national scale, growing alignment among payers, providers, and policymakers around improving Medicaid outcomes provides strong tailwinds for continued adoption.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2023
$22m
EARLY VC
Jan 2022
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $67m
Company HQ
Lower Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rajaie Batniji
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Waymark, Rajaie co-founded Collective Health where he served as the Chief Health Officer for nearly 8 years. He also spent nearly 5 years as a Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Afia Asamoah
(Co-Founder, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary & Head of Strategic Alliances)Prior to co-founding Waymark, Afia was the Head of Legal at Google Health. She also spent nearly 4 years at Verily in various roles, including Senior Counsel.
Sanjay Basu
(Co-Founder, CMO & CTO)Sanjay is also an Internal Medicine Physician at the Integrated Care Center at HealthRIGHT 360, a role he has held since 2019. Previously, he was a Director of Research at the Center for Primary Care at Harvard University and a VP of Research and Population Health at Collective Health.
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