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Senior Software Engineer

Background

Yuzu Health is a startup health insurance TPA. We manage and help to design the health insurance plans that businesses offer their employees. Read more about what a TPA does here. We differentiate by helping new types of health insurance plans come to life by facilitating new ways to pay for and access healthcare covered by insurance.

At a basic level, health insurance is simple: give people certainty over how much they will pay for needed medical expenses. Health insurance has become too complicated, and needs people who care deeply about digging through the complexity of the system to reveal the simple and noble nature lying beneath.

We view ourselves as a fintech company — creating and managing incentive structures and social contracts that pay strangers to take care of each other.

Role

  • This is an abstraction design role. You will be a software engineer and code full time.

  • You will primarily be responsible for managing migrations, refactoring code, enforcing conventions, deleting redundancy, and abstracting functionality.

  • You will ingest complex, feature-rich code and turn it into clean modules that destroy entropy and keep the rest of the team agile on the frontlines.

  • You understand that robustness is a side-effect of simplicity.

  • Your job will change completely every 3-6 months as you design abstractions to solve recurring problems

  • In person NYC 5 days a week non-negotiable.

  • Basic stack: NestJS, SvelteKit, Typescript, Prisma, AWS.

  • Meta stack: Stedi, Stripe

Qualifications

  • You have to be obsessed with simplicity and have the courage to make big decisions.

  • You have to like challenges. This is hard. We handle hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments per month for thousands of members and dozens of employers. We have to coordinate complex payment flows, handle innovative and new payment models, and keep fiduciary accounts reconciled.

  • You have to be an ethical and compassionate person.

  • You have to want to win.

  • You have to care about the team.

  • You have to have experience writing software on a winning team.

  • Experience in fintech is a plus, but not required.

Anti-Qualifications

  • You liked working in Big Tech.

  • You like meetings.

  • You like to make decisions by committee.

Our Commitment to You

  • You will have significant ownership. Both equity and autonomy.

  • We will invest in your learning and forgive your mistakes along the way.

  • We will trust you and tell you everything you want to know about the business.

Process

If we interview you, you can expect the following process

  • Initial 30-45 minute conversation with either Ryan, Russell, or Pam

  • A take-home assignment designed to be similar to on-the-job work

  • A 45 minute fit interview with either Ryan, Russell, or Pam

  • An onsite superday

  • We may speak with 1-2 references you provide

Additional Reading

To apply — email jobs@yuzu.health