Early Career Software Engineer, Citizen Health
$130-180k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Health data access & sharing platform
Job no longer available
Health data access & sharing platform
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
$130-180k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1-20 employees
Company mission
To improve the lives of 400+ million people navigating rate and complex conditions.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a builder and problem-solver who thrives in fast-paced, innovative environments
- You’ve worked on consumer or data-rich products, enjoy end-to-end ownership, and collaborate closely with teammates to ship real value
- You’re comfortable diving into your strengths (frontend, backend, or full-stack) and curious about how AI can improve the experiences we deliver for patients, providers, researchers, and internal teams
- 0-3 years of professional software engineering experience with a track record of launching user-facing features or services
- Strength in one or more of the following:
- Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript with a modern framework (e.g., React/Vue), semantic HTML/CSS, accessibility, and performance for data-heavy UIs
- Product Engineering: Strong product sense and UX instincts; you use user needs, data, and experiments to guide decisions and iterate quickly
- Working knowledge of performance, scalability, and security fundamentals appropriate to your layer (e.g., web perf, API efficiency, data modeling, auth)
- Experience with testing (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, PyTest) and comfort with code reviews and iterative development
Desirable
- Experience with frontend state management (e.g., Redux, MobX, Recoil) or a backend framework (e.g., Express, FastAPI, Spring, Fiber)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern build tooling
- Proficiency with databases (SQL or NoSQL) and writing simple queries to inform product decisions
- Experience with analytics/experimentation and/or accessibility best practices
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers, and observability is a plus
What the job involves
- We're seeking a full-stack Software Engineer to work on the development of our patient, partner, and company web applications
- This role is crucial in creating intuitive, efficient, and responsive user interfaces that will directly impact our users' experience and our platform's success
- As a key part of our engineering team, you will build high-performance, scalable, and accessible user interfaces that use AI to serve diverse user groups including rare disease patients, healthcare providers, researchers, and our internal teams
- You will join a team that highly leverages the latest AI coding assistants (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to implement features at very high velocity
- Your work will be at the heart of our mission, translating complex health data and research findings into user-friendly interfaces that empower patients, facilitate groundbreaking research, and streamline our internal operations
Our take
Citizen Health is an AI-powered platform that gives individuals with rare and complex diseases access to their health data. By centralising records like clinical data, genetic information and patient-reported outcomes, it helps patients make informed decisions, share insights with caregivers and connect with others facing similar conditions.
The platform also accelerates medical research by providing researchers with critical patient data, speeding up drug development and clinical trials. By empowering patients to share their experiences, Citizen Health helps advance personalized care and faster therapies for rare diseases.
Only founded in 2023, the company is already making waves, with financial backing from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and, in 2025, from 8VC. With substantial investment behind it, Citizen Health aims to expand its platform, innovate further and accelerate research to improve the overall treatment of rare diseases.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2025
$30m
SERIES A
Nov 2024
$14.5m
SEED
Total funding: $44.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Company off-sites
- Work-from-anywhere 30 days of the year
- Unlimited PTO
- Potential for equity
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Farid Vij
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the President and General Manager of Patient Network and Data at Invitae. Prior to that, they co-founded Ciitizen where they served as the Chief Operating Officer.
Nasha Fitter
(Co-Founder & CBO)Co-founder and CEO at FOXG1Research. Previously VP at Invitae and Ciitizen. Also was founder and CEO of Schoolie (acquired by GreatSchools) and spent 6 years at Microsoft in a number of education related roles.
Daniel Wang
(CTO)Previously the Director of AI, ML and Pricing Engineering at Uber Freight. They also worked at Amazon as an Alexa Speech Recognition Model Engineer and co-founded Factory Method where they served as the CEO.
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