Software Engineer, Forward
Backend Infrastructure
$100-200k
+ Equity
Membership-based preventative health care service
Job no longer available
Membership-based preventative health care service
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$100-200k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make high quality healthcare available to a billion people across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Impact - You’re deeply mission-driven and you think there’s more to life than software that enables puppy ears to be superimposed on photos. Although we concede those are cute
- Distributed Systems - You have experience building and operating highly scalable infrastructure in the cloud
- Data Engineering - You have firsthand experience with cloud storage (eg. S3, HDFS), job scheduling (Airflow, et al), message queues and streams (eg. Kafka, Kinesis, RabbitMQ), and distributed computation (Hadoop, Spark, etc) for Analytics and Machine Learning use cases
- Product passion - You care about the bits you ship ending up in users’ hands, and work backwards from user needs to come up with solutions to problems
- Entrepreneurship - You’re a self-starter who loves to own things end-to-end. You don’t ask for permission - you’re too busy making things happen
- Team player - You know how to make those around you better and feed off their energy. You take care of your teammates
- You have a BS or MS in computer science or a related technical field
- 2+ years production scale experience
What the job involves
- Tackle problems on the boundary of software, hardware, and the real world
- Build the engine that serves data at scale to product teams, data scientists, and ML engineers across the company
- Collaborate with domain experts in fields like AI and NLP. Our engineers made major contributions to projects such as Amazon Go and TensorFlow
- Work with top-flight software and hardware engineering talent from places like Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Palantir, and NASA JPL
- Own entire projects while working alongside cross-functional teams of doctors, designers, and operators
- Your work will directly contribute to saving and improving people’s lives. For real. :)
Our take
Many believe the global healthcare system is inadequate, expensive and in need of a new approach. It's not only important to provide reactive care, but also to prevent catastrophes from happening.
Forward is a medical startup that prioritizes preventative care and focuses on improving how healthcare works in order to lower costs. It relies on technology and AI to consolidate patients' medical records and monitor health risks. Patients pay a monthly fee for membership and can monitor their preventative care plan on the Forward app.
The healthcare industry is estimated to be worth over $10 trillion. The company plans to build the first billion-person healthcare system on top of its platform, changing it from a service to a product. Disrupting the industry is one thing, but reinventing the healthcare system with such an ambitious mission is a huge challenge, even if it does have more than $325 million in funding from investment firms and celebrities alike.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Intelligent people
"I've been beyond impressed with the intelligence of the teams I work with at Forward. Differing opinions are encouraged and spirited debates..."
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$225m
SERIES D
Total funding: $325m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- We believe we do our best work when we're collaborating in-person, sharing ideas, and working together to think outside of the box. We are all aligned on what we're trying to build and believe in the impact we're trying to make.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Adrian Aoun
(CEO)Studied Philosophy, Computer Science and Computer Engineering at USC. Started out as a Program Manager at Microsoft, and co-founded Google-acquired Wavii. Served as a White House advisor in 2015, and founded Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company. Worked in Google's AI division, and then became Director of Special Projects for the CEO.
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