Founding Software Engineer (Backend, Remote)

Depending on the role, you will:

• Design and build the development and production platforms that power our new products, enabling reliability and security at scale
• Own the development of new user-facing generative AI features and product experiences end-to-end
• Partner with researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers to bring new features and research capabilities to the world
• Accelerate engineering productivity by empowering your fellow engineers with excellent tooling and systems
• Help create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group think
• Like all other teams, we are responsible for the reliability of the systems we build. This includes an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents as needed

You might thrive in this role, if you:

• Have 5+ years of engineering experience in various tech environments, including product-driven companies.
• Have experience with TypeScript/React on the frontend, Python on the backend, adaptability, and a drive to learn new technologies.
• Are comfortable taking ownership in an ambitious, fast-paced and diverse startup environment.
• Possess significant experience in designing, building, and scaling production systems to deliver new product capabilities and manage increasing demand.
• Are committed to creating outstanding user experiences and take pride in developing solutions that meet customer needs.
• You are excited about and stay up-to-date with rapidly advancing changes in AI and LLM technology.
• Demonstrate humility, a collaborative spirit, and a willingness to support your colleagues to ensure team success.
• Take ownership of challenges from start to finish, and are proactive in learning new skills as needed.
• Build tools to accelerate your own (and your teammates’) workflows, but only when off-the-shelf solutions won’t do.
• Have experience in startup environments, either as a founder or an early-stage engineer (bonus points, not required).
• Are familiar with healthcare, EHR, HIPAA & other healthcare regulatory structures (bonus points, not required).

Tech Stack

• LLMs: OpenAI & similar
• Backend: Python, Django, Postgres
• Frontend: React, Typescript
• Infrastructure: GCP, Docker

Compensation, Benefits and Perks

• Flexible work hours & generous PTO
• High autonomy and support from a collaborative team
• New Macbook Pro
• Work from home stipend
• Personal development stipend

Why join Glass?

• You dream of improving healthcare with us for both patients and physicians.
• You want to join a company that’s always been focused on improving patient care. Since 2022, Glass has already helped physicians-in-training and physicians with better tools including our DDx, Clinical Plan and Glass Notebooks. We have just launched our game-changing AI CDS to provide doctors with real-time suggestions and insights.
• You’re passionate to serve our growing, immensely loving and respectful community, including 150+ physicians & physicians-in-training.
• Be on the bleeding-edge of AI. We strive to be the best-in-class AI CDS, and we’ll be harnessing and developing novel approaches along the way.
• We are at an inflection point on our startup journey. We’ve raised 6.5M (including 5M seed round) from:
• Top-tier investors, such as YCombinator and Initialized
• Our first health system partner, Kaiser Permanente Mid Atlantic
• Top healthcare CEOs, including Tom Lee of One Medical, Heather Hasson & Trina Spear of FIGS, Connor Landgraf of Eko Health, Othman Lararki of Color Genomics, and Dan Siroker of Rewind and Optimizely. We will raise our Series A this year.

Interview process

• Initial background/light technical interview (45 mins)
• Live coding challenge (1 hr)
• Final interview: System design problem + realistic work simulation challenge (live; ~1.5-2 hr)