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Phoebe

Disability and elder care coordination platform

Forward Deployed Engineer

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/20/2026
No salary listed
Junior
New York, NY, USA
In Person
Software EngineeringAI Application Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 2 years of experience shipping real products.
  • Ability to work across the stack.
  • Experience working with large language models in production, or willingness to work with them.
  • Ability to stay current with AI development workflows and use coding agents to automate engineering, observability, and the development workflow.
  • Interest in the full product development loop, from understanding a problem through building, observing use, and iterating.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity.
Responsibilities
  • Interact directly with customers and deliver end-to-end solutions, from understanding pain points through designing and implementing solutions.
  • Work closely with sales and go-to-market teams to close deals and activate customers.
  • Drive product feedback directly into the product roadmap.
  • Join customer calls and learn how homecare scheduling works.
  • Own active customer relationships after the first month.
  • Diagnose and resolve customer issues directly, build quick fixes to unblock go-lives, and deliver small customizations for agencies.
  • Identify recurring patterns across customers and work with the team to generalize them into product improvements.
Desired Qualifications
  • Genuine enjoyment of speaking with customers.

About the company

Phoebe provides a care coordination platform that helps families find, manage, and pay for disability and elder care services. The digital platform connects families with a network of vetted therapists, caregivers, and other specialists, and combines communication, scheduling, and payment tools in one place to streamline care coordination. Unlike others that only offer provider listings or payments separately, Phoebe centralizes care management so families can handle scheduling, messaging, and billing from a single interface. The company aims to reduce the fragmentation and administrative burden families face when securing support services, by offering a organized, end-to-end solution for care for loved ones.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$9.5M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

N/A

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What believers are saying

  • Phoebe says it filled 75% of shifts under 15 minutes by October 2026.
  • It acquired Alden in 2026, adding customers, product depth, and market credibility.
  • Hiring across engineering, sales, and customer success shows active commercialization momentum in New York.

What critics are saying

  • Acuity and HHAeXchange already own scheduling; Phoebe risks becoming a feature.
  • Seed funding limits runway if agency sales and implementations drag beyond 2026.
  • One failed automation causing missed shifts can kill trust, churn customers, and stall adoption.

What makes Phoebe unique

  • Phoebe automates 24/7 scheduling across EHR, email, and calls, not just software.
  • January 2026 seed and Alden acquisition signal a consolidation strategy in care coordination.
  • It targets agency back-office workflows, where missed shifts directly destroy revenue and service quality.

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Benefits

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Growth & Insights

Headcount

6 month growth

50%

1 year growth

50%

2 year growth

87%