Full Stack Software Engineer, Vanna Health

$150-210k

JavaScript
Python
Senior level
Remote in US
Vanna Health

Serious mental illness healthcare services

Open for applications

Vanna Health

Serious mental illness healthcare services

21-100 employees

HealthcareB2BMental healthSocial Impact

Open for applications

$150-210k

JavaScript
Python
Senior level
Remote in US

21-100 employees

HealthcareB2BMental healthSocial Impact

Company mission

To help people living with serious mental illness thrive by strengthening the community ecosystem around them.

Role

Who you are

  • Track record of execution. You have 5+ years of engineering experience, including several years of building and shipping features for world-class product experiences
  • Expertise in Typescript. Static typing, interfaces, and generics don’t scare you
  • Experience in modern Frontend JS Frameworks. You’ve worked on several codebases using a modern JS Framework (React, Vue, Svelt, etc)
  • Technical Flexibility. You understand that technologies are about trade-offs, and you’re not dogmatic about your approach to choosing them
  • Self-starter. You understand that small companies require working in ambiguous environments. You gather requirements, work with appropriate stakeholders, and can craft a plan to finish projects on your own

Desirable

  • Startup experience. You’ve worked on small teams at small companies before
  • Healthcare experience. You’re familiar with HIPAA, HL7, FHIR, EHRs, etc

What the job involves

  • As a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer at Vanna Health, you’ll work on our cross-functional technology team
  • The team is small but mighty, made up of a product manager, a product designer, engineering manager, and several other full-stack engineers
  • We value autonomy and work-life balance and prioritize code quality, automated testing and the developer experience
  • We balance these with our focus on output and shipping features
  • Your work will include both frontend and backend development and you’ll touch nearly all parts of the code at Vanna
  • The technology team is responsible for the development of Vanna Connect, our internal product that our Care Team uses to improve the health and well-being of individuals with SMI
  • Doing so will require a thoughtful balance of technology and human touch, and will require interactions with our clinical and care teams

Our take

There are 14 million Americans living with serious mental illness, the vast majority of whom never receive any kind of psychosocial rehabilitation. This is a silent human crisis, with sufferers having life expectancies decades shorter than the average and a greatly elevated risk of poverty, homelessness and incarceration.

Vanna Health exists to help support people suffering from serious mental illness by strengthening the community support structures around them. A for-profit company, it works by providing values to its partner insurers, agencies and hospitals, bundling clinical treatment plans and community offerings in a way that greatly reduces the cost of care while delivering outcomes that far outperform the rather dire status quo in US mental health care.

Vanna Health raised significant funding in late 2022, enabling it to officially launch its services in the United States. It will be investing heavily in building new health care partnerships, expanding its clinical teams and developing its tech stack. In the longer term it could well develop into a significant part of the mental health care landscape in the US medical system.

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Insights

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back within 2 weeks

Company

Funding (1 round)

Dec 2022

$29m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $29m

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Before co-founding Vanna Health co-founded Brightline, OODA Health, Castlight Health and RealyHealth.

Brian Meewes

(President)

Was previously COO & CFO at OODA Health. Before that was Head of Growth, Operations and Finance at Alto Pharmacy, and Head of Finance for Symphony Commerce.

Tom Insel, MD

(Executive Chairman)

Is also Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Is on several not-for-profit and for-profit boards, and is a Scientfic Advisor to numerous firms including Alto Neurosci and Cerebral.

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