The next generation care enablement platform
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Do you wish your work had greater tangible impact? š
At Anima, we're building the next generation care enablement platform for healthcare teams. You'll be building a product that saves lives; multiple Clinical Engineers (ex-MDs and fullstack Software Engineers) quit lucrative medicine jobs to join Anima for that very reason!
Our mission is to deliver precision medicine to everyone in the world, within 24 hours. We know exactly how to get there and weāre moving ferociously with focus.
Our ambition is to be the OS for all of healthcare and life sciences, through a proprietary active learning, crowdsourcing training architecture - we call it Anima 2.0. We already have one of the biggest, highest quality labelled datasets in the world.
We're profitable, growing at 100% MoM, and went from $0 ARR to $4m ARR in 19 months from launch (Apr '22). That's pretty unprecedented in SaaS, never mind healthcare!
We were one of the hottest companies of YCās W21 batch: we raised over $2.5m before Demo Day within 4 days, led by Hummingbird (consistently top 1% of global returns), giving us a runway of 4+ years. We have now closed an over subscribed Series A round.
We have a pretty unique hacker culture at Anima with a flat hierarchy: almost everyone is technical and can code. A 'knights of the round table' structure and thinking from first principles is core to our culture, and is how we've made such rapid progress. It's reflected in how we operate:
Join Anima, and you'll solve super interesting technical problems that will save lives.
Hi - I'm Shun, an MD and CEO of Anima. Thanks for checking out our job ad! Weāre tackling a problem that has affected everyone in some way.
Since our launch and first pilot in March 2022, we're now used in dozens of clinics across the country, serving 100,000s of patients. Weāve been growing more than 80% MoM in terms of users and revenue. Weāre default alive, and currently have over a decade of runway - though we expect to be strongly cashflow positive by the end of 2023.
Users love our product. The biggest testament to this is that most of our growth comes from virality and referrals with $0 spent on marketing, despite being B2B/enterprise. We have never churned a clinic.
We are pretty unique among health techs: we have both medical and engineering domain expertise. I wrote the Anima 1.0 backend in Node, 80% of which is still used. I also built Annie 1.0, a tuned LLM coupled with a policy engine, that can output structured medical summaries, potential differential diagnoses and management plans. As a doctor and former HM Treasury health policy advisor managing Ā£4bn budgets in UK health spending, Iām a technical, product-focused CEO with full stack domain knowledge and personal experience of the problem weāre solving.
Anima has a unique hacker culture: Everyone is technical with almost complete autonomy akin to āKnights of the Round Tableā.
Over 80% of the product team are ex-technical founders, former CTOs. We also have many technical domain experts (āfullstack Clinical Engineersā, ex-MDs) who are their own users.
Everyone in product is technical at Anima and can write production code. This makes for a truly flat hierarchy. Thereās no separate founder, product or customer team - there is very little communication loss because we all deeply understand the problem, engineering, grading for potential features, and trade-offs. Deep domain knowledge & a tight feedback loop between product dev and user pain is how launched in the highly complex health space, growing from 0 to over 100,000 MAUs in months.
When everyone is technical and make great decisions, itās much easier to stay on the same page & execute rapidly. This means we have a super short latency from ideation to real usage.
Here are 3 concrete examples with specs and timelines (Iād be delighted to demo any of these to you):
If high growth delta and joining an elite scrappy crew is your priority, youāre gonna love it here.
Does this sound like you?
We donāt enforce any particular experience level, but youāll need to demonstrate most of the above through past projects and/or our assessment process. As an early QA hire, you will play a crucial role in shaping our quality assurance processes and ensuring our product meets the highest standards. If you are excited about reshaping health-tech and enhancing user experiences, this role could be for you!
Our Current Stack & What to Expect from the Role
We are tech-agnostic and collectively choose the best tools for the job. Weāre constantly looking to maximize our productivity and minimize what we call ādiscounted dev time costā for shipping features. We have two separate fully functional web apps in production: one for clinical users and one for patients. Our stack is currently entirely in JS/TS: Angular + Capacitor + Electron, React (internal tools), Amplitude (analytics), and a fully serverless backend in AWS (Cognito, Appsync GraphQL, Lambda, DynamoDB). We have good functional & unit test coverage and CI/CD.
Our stack is in a great place already: highly scalable, cost-effective, good test coverage, easily maintained, secure, and performant with minimal to zero Ops. The product and codebase are stable and loved by our users. We write, test, deploy & ship new features rapidly. We will soon have canary blue-green deployment.
Strategically, we prioritize strong frontend-backend decoupling through GraphQL and strong modularization of frontend and backend into hierarchical pure modules, with high abstraction internal services and helpers, allowing ephemeral lances (similar to āsquadsā) to work on functional modules without needing to understand or be overly concerned about other parts of the codebase.
This is a permanent role: things get even more exciting down the line!
Anima builds Care Enablement for care teams. You'll be building a product that saves lives and multiple Clinical Engineers (ex-MDs and fullstack SWEs) quit lucrative medicine jobs to join Anima for that very reason! Our ambition is to be the OS for all of healthcare and life sciences, through a proprietary active learning, crowdsourcing training architecture - we call it Anima 2.0. We already have one of the biggest, highest quality labelled datasets in the world.
We're profitable, growing at 300-400% MoM, and went from $0 ARR to $1m ARR in 6 months from launch (Apr '22). That's pretty unprecedented in SaaS, nevermind healthcare! We have a pretty unique hacker culture at Anima: almost everyone is technical and can code. A 'knights of the round table' structure and thinking from first principles is core to our culture, and is how we've made such rapid progress. It's reflected in how we operate:
There's no separate product & engineering teams - instead, we have Clinical Engineers who are both their own customers (MDs) and are strong fullstack engs, collaborating with pure software engineers. Due to the quality of our team, there's a heavy focus on coaching and teaching, with minimal to no line management.
We're relentlessly resourceful - in 14 months, we've built an extremely loved enterprise app (NPS = 87) that users have said 'seems too good to be true'. Anima can take an information complete medical history as good or better than a typical human doctor, and automates patient comms and clinical notes.
Anima is a safe haven for free thinkers and we've been careful to build a culture where everyone feels comfortable being their complete self, without ever needing to self-censor. Our hiring acceptance rate is around 0.5-0.8%, which is lower than YC. You're joining hyper elite special forces, and your crewmates will never let you down or waste your time.
We hire candidates from all over the world. We have remote hubs in EU West and NA, and plans to seed some in person teams in those areas too in the next 12 months (in addition to our fully remote teams).
We have a good time :) we've had team lunches in Duck&Waffle, Breakfast Club, dumplings in Chinatown, had private screenings in our own cinema, booked out the Sky Pool etc. We'll be doing at least 2x international team meets, with the next one in a beautiful chateau in Southern France.