Full Stack Software Engineer, AKASA
$180-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle
Open for applications
AI-powered automation for the healthcare revenue cycle
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable human health by building the future of healthcare with AI.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8 years of work experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript (full-stack comfort)
- Comfortable writing and reading a lot of code, and strong habits around testing and automation
- Experience with or eagerness to use Claude Code as a collaborator for software development — you’re comfortable with AI-assisted workflows and want to push them forward
- Startup experience and a proven track record of building projects 0→1 (and iterating quickly)
- Production experience with Postgres (data modeling, migrations, performance)
- Comfortable with Docker and modern deployment workflows
- Comfort working independently and owning user feedback end-to-end
- Excellent written communication
Desirable
- Bias toward action over perfection; self-directed but highly collaborative
- Previous experience building or shipping an agent/advisor product or other agentic systems
- Familiarity with Kubernetes
- Clinical or health-data domain experience (helpful for working with evidence sources)
- Experience building or maintaining in-browser integrations
What the job involves
- You’ll join a small, product-focused team to evolve Advisor into a single, general, agentic product that revenue cycle teams love. This is a 0→1 / 1→N role: you’ll move fast, iterate with real users, and own features end-to-end from design through testing and deployment
- Own feature development for Advisor: design, implement, test and deploy production features (Python backend + modern JS/TS frontend)
- Collaborate with product, clinical SMEs, and revenue cycle teams to iterate quickly and validate hypotheses
- Use Claude Code as a development collaborator: prompt it, review and edit its output, and integrate its work into the codebase and CI pipelines
- Design and implement integrations to external APIs for evidence/medical data, ensuring correctness and auditability
- Maintain a strong testing culture: unit, integration and E2E tests; continuous delivery via Docker and Kubernetes
- Be a pragmatic engineer – ship fast, iterate from real user feedback, and improve systems for scale and reliability
- Communicate clearly in writing: design proposals, PR descriptions, and conversations with revenue cycle teams and collaborators
- Short-term impact (first 30–90 days)
- You’ll ship concrete, high-impact work quickly:
- Evolve Advisor from a UI-centric product to a more agentic architecture
- Implement external APIs to enhance Advisor’s knowledge base
- Explore additional surface areas for the product
Our take
The US healthcare system is both financially and operationally complex. It is estimated to cost patients and providers $500 billion annually in medical billing and insurance administrative expenses. AKASA, formerly Alpha Health, addresses this issue with its Unified Automation technology
The technology is designed to streamline revenue cycle operations by combining human expertise with AI-driven automation. It deploys machine-learning tools supported by revenue cycle specialists who can handle more complex cases and refine the algorithms.
This blend of human and machine intelligence is a stand-out approach, which could well serve as a blueprint for other sectors. Meanwhile, AKASA will continue to help reshape the healthcare industry by solving its complex operational challenges.
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Insights
-17% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$120m
SERIES C
Mar 2021
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $205m
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parent leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(K) plan
Company HQ
The East Side, South San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Malinka Walaliyadde
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Counsyl and Corning Life Sciences. They have an Engineering degree from Cornell University.
Varun Ganapathi
(Co-Founder & CTO)They have successfully started two AI companies prior to AKASA. One was acquired by Google and the other by Udacity.
Andy Atwal
(Co-Founder & VP of Engineering)Prior to AKASA, they were the founding Software Engineer at Counsyl, a health technology company offering DNA screenings for various diseases.
Ben Beadle-Ryby
(Co-Founder)Previously, they were a Partner at the Advisory Board Company, where they oversaw revenue cycle consulting and technology.
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