Staff Product Engineer, H1
$155-180k
+ Stock options
Platform connecting healthcare professionals
Be an early applicant
Platform connecting healthcare professionals
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$155-180k
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
H1's mission is to create a healthier future by delivering a platform that connects stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem and encourages purposeful relationships.
Role
Who you are
- As a Staff Engineer, you are a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and takes ownership across systems and projects. You bring deep expertise in API design, data engineering, and distributed systems, along with the ability to influence technical direction and drive alignment across teams
- You excel at balancing hands-on development with technical leadership and are comfortable owning initiatives from concept through production and iteration
- You write clean, maintainable, and scalable code, and set a high bar for engineering quality
- You have strong experience diagnosing complex system and data issues and driving improvements
- You have deep experience designing and evolving RESTful APIs, including versioning, pagination, and backward-compatible changes
- You are comfortable authoring technical design documents and aligning cross-functional stakeholders
- You effectively influence architecture decisions and collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams
- Strong coding skills in Python or NodeJS for high-availability API development
- Experience designing and operating data systems and pipelines at scale
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL
- Experience with Git, JIRA, and CI/CD platforms (e.g., CircleCI)
- Proven experience designing and evolving external-facing APIs, including versioning, pagination, and deprecation strategies
- Experience with ElasticSearch, ETL/API design, healthcare data domains, or customer-facing data delivery systems is a plus
What the job involves
- Product Engineering plays a pivotal role in developing and delivering our consumer-facing applications. Our team processes data from upstream sources, constructs robust data pipelines to ensure information remains current, and transforms this data for downstream use, providing our users with actionable, exportable insights
- Our applications serve as gateways to our extensive knowledge base, which includes millions of healthcare professional profiles and their affiliations
- The Product Engineering Digital Health team is responsible for building and scaling the systems that power our Find Care user platform, which consists of multiple interconnected systems including Find Care API and Find Care Flat File Delivery, as well as new systems under development such as Find Care UI and Network Universe
- These systems enable customers to search, access, and integrate healthcare data — including provider networks, insurance relationships, and price transparency data — into their workflows
- As we continue to expand into new markets, launch new API versions, and deepen the breadth of data we collect, it is essential that our team grows and scales accordingly to meet these increasing demands
- As a Staff Product Engineer and API Lead on the Digital Health team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and evolving the APIs and systems that power the Find Care platform
- You will own the technical direction of our customer-facing APIs — driving architecture decisions, defining standards, and leading initiatives such as API versioning, schema evolution, and deprecation strategies
- Own the full lifecycle of API design and development — from problem definition and schema modeling through implementation, versioned rollout, and deprecation planning
- Lead API evolution efforts to reduce redundancy, optimize payload size, and improve usability (e.g., sub-resources, summary objects, cleaner response structures)
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into clear technical specifications and well-scoped Jira tickets, while remaining hands-on in the codebase
- Own and evolve data pipelines and transformation workflows that support API and flat file delivery across the platform
- Define and implement scalable integration patterns (APIs and file-based delivery) to support internal and external data exchange
- Drive system performance and scalability improvements as data volume and product complexity grow
- Lead troubleshooting of complex system and data issues, establishing best practices across reliability, observability, testing, and data quality
- Ensure data security, integrity, and compliance with governance and regulatory standards
- Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the team
- Leverage AI-first development practices (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to improve speed and quality of engineering output
Application process
- Anticipated role close date: 06/15/2026
Our take
Contrary to an increased emphasis on data privacy globally, within the healthcare industry governments are pushing for more data transparency. Additionally, the increasing costs and difficulty of drug discovery requires healthcare organizations and pharmaceutical companies to be able to quickly connect to professionals and thought leaders with specific credentials or research history. H1 addresses these needs by allowing life sciences companies, hospitals, and healthcare systems to locate the professionals they need.
H1 is the world’s largest healthcare database. It acts a bit like LinkedIn for healthcare professionals, and has already built a network of more than 9 million users. It has also built a corporate client base of 250 enterprises which is able to access its data which spans more than 250 million patients and over 10 billion health care claims.
The company graduated from Y Combinator's accelerator program in January 2020 and capped off a successful year by closing a Series B funding round that December. In 2021, H1 worked to further expand the company into Europe and Asia. Following a successful 2022 Series C round the company is focusing on building out its data network and hiring additional talent.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$23m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $187.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible work hours
- Commuter benefits
- Stock options
- Computer setup
- Work from home opportunities
- Health & life insurance
- Retirement options
- Unlimited PTO
- Flex Give & Flex Spend
- Impactful BRGs
Company HQ
Flatiron District, New York, NY
Leadership
Ariel Katz
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded acquired online database, ResearchConnection, before co-founding H1.
Ian Sax
(Co-Founder)Ian has been building businesses for over two decades. He began his start up career at The Carson Group, where he built the firm's global people, institution, and shareholder platform.
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