Senior Backend Engineer, Ro
$167.5-204.5k
+ Equity
Telehealth primary care platform
Open for applications
Telehealth primary care platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$167.5-204.5k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help patients achieve health goals by delivering the most convenient and effective care possible.
Role
Who you are
- Experience designing and building scalable web applications and distributed systems
- Proficiency with Python
- 5-7 years of software engineering experience
- Strong sense of ownership with the ability / desire to own technical roadmaps and refine ambiguous problems
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners to create the best possible products
Desirable
- Service design and architecture experience, defining patterns and best practices for others to follow
- Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services
- Proficiency with FastAPI (or similar frameworks) and Postgres (or similar relational databases)
- Experience with message/topic based platforms and/or event-driven architectures
- Experience with FHIR
What the job involves
- As a backend engineer at Ro, you'll work on an end-to-end platform that includes patient intake, commerce, telemedicine, at-home testing, health data management, and a pharmacy network that ships to all 50 states
- You’ll design and build new applications and platform capabilities while evolving Ro’s technical architecture in order to scale patient-centric healthcare to millions of patients
- You will help lead the team’s technical roadmap and be expected to own initiatives from ideation to design, implementation and maintenance
- You’ll partner closely with product, design, and data teams and have the opportunity to collaborate with security, pharmacy, clinical, and legal experts
- Design and build distributed services with high test coverage, performance, availability and observability that power Ro’s end-to-end healthcare platform
- Actively contribute to building the team’s architectural vision and technical roadmap
- Collaborate on code reviews and technical design documents to ensure code quality and distribute knowledge
- Work closely with product, design, data and other stakeholders to help us build the best possible experiences for our providers, pharmacists, and patients
Our take
Ro is a healthcare startup that connects patients directly to physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. The founders of Ro established the company because they felt that health insurance wasn’t working as it should, as the pooled cost of expensive treatments means that the price of individual doctor visits is inflated.
Ro’s primary care platform powers a personalized, end-to-end healthcare experience from diagnosis, to delivery of medication, to ongoing care. Instead of having to travel to a doctor’s office, Ro customers can access a video conference with a physician on-demand, from the comfort of their own home.
In order to tap into the global medical market, which is worth over $4 trillion, Ro raised $150 million at a valuation of $7 billion in 2022. It has expanded to more health areas, such as skincare and mental health, and launched an online pharmacy. Despite this, a substantial number of layoffs in spring 2022 indicated that Ro's accelerated growth had caused problems with its internal organization. Having now narrowed its focus and spending more on less, Ro has streamlined its operations and looks to continue on a steady upward trajectory.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$150m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$500m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.0bn
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision membership
- Equity for all team members
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave, and flexible work arrangement
- Well-stocked office with snacks and bi-weekly free lunches
- Gym, learning, and development stipends
Company values
- Fight for patients: Always start with what patients want. Your curiosity drives you to understand their motivation and the goals they are trying to achieve. Work backwards from there. Fight for the healthcare they deserve and move mountains to make it happen
- Think big: Challenge the status quo. You're here to revolutionize healthcare for patients. Dream big. Come up with bad meeting ideas. We love them. Let's invent together
- Inch by inch: Improve every day - yourself, your team and your work. Constantly raise the bar. Focus on the inputs of the patient experience and, over a long enough time horizon, those small improvements compound and you will change the world
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Zachariah Reitano
(Co-Founder)Previously a Teacher at General Assembly and co-founder of Shout Inc., in 2013. They are now an Entrepreneur in Residence at Prehype.
Saman Rahmanian
(Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer)Previously a Senior Art Director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky and founder of Tischen in 2010. They were also a Partner at Prehype and founder of Managed by Q.
Rob Schutz
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Founder of Snagged.com. Experienced as a Senior Consultant at CGI specializing in healthcare, they also served as Director of US Marketing and USer Acqusition at kgb and as VP of Growth at BARK.
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