Clearest Health
Rebuilding trust in American health insurance.
Founding Engineer
About the role
We are looking to grow our engineering team. This role will report directly to the CEO.
We are in an unsexy $300 B market that desperately needs better incentive alignment, which can only be achieved through better technology. Your work will directly impact the health and savings of 60% of the American population. We have a five-year tech roadmap, a strong sales motion, and significant funding.
Expect your friends to ask why you are working so hard and then ask if they can work with you.
Role Requirements
- At least 2 year of professional software experience.
- Full-stack experience.
Culture-fit Requirements
- Customer-obsessed
- Opinionated but convincible
- Has great taste
- Wicked fast iterations
- High trust, high loyalty
- Cares deeply about changing healthcare and insurance
Role Guidelines
- Measure twice, cut once. Design features by presenting multiple options for review prior to implementation. You show good judgment when making technical trade-offs.
- High ownership. You can operate independently and own features end to end with minimal guidance.
- Comfortable with moving fast, taking shortcuts as directed and technical guidance.
- Super user of Cursor & Chrome Dev Tools.
- Background in life sciences, UX or product design is a plus.
- Help manage & grow an on/offshore team.
- Design and build products from repo creation
- Extreme knowledge and expertise in building data-intensive applications
Technical Stack
- Frontend: React, React Router, Tailwind.css and Mantine.
- Backend: Node.js + Typescript Hono Lambda. Heavy IO operations will be written in Go.
- Infrastructure:
- Auth: Clerk (we will roll our own using Auth.js eventually)
- Hosting: AWS, Cloudflare Pages
- Compute: AWS Lambda, ECS Fargate (for long running jobs)
- Storage: S3, DynamoDB, PostgresSQL
- Analytics: CloudWatch, Metabase
About the interview
- Portfolio Submission: Please share any notable GitHub projects and technical content you’ve authored.
- Coding Challenge: Attached is a technical coding challenge, which includes specific grading criteria. Please review the README carefully: Coding Challenge - GitHub Repository. Please timbox this to 1 day tops.
- Final Round Selection: We will review submissions and invite select candidates for a final behavioral and technical interview via Zoom.
- Trial Period: Two weeks at a minimum of 40 hours per week.
- Full-Time Offer: Upon successful completion, a full-time position with a competitive salary will be offered.
About Clearest Health
We are rebuilding the core infrastructure behind corporate health insurance, everything from care navigation, analytics, claims, and more. Fully cloud-native and AI-first. We are eager to directly impact the health and savings of 60% of the American population.
