Founding Software Engineer
Kubera Health
Founding Software Engineer
Kubera Health
Healthcare contract and cost management SaaS
We need a Founding Software Engineer with 2+ years of full-stack TypeScript experience, preferably in a healthcare or fintech startup. This is a super exciting and mission-driven role at a well funded startup ($6.5M raised), where you can shape engineering and broader culture.
Develop, test, and release new features, shipping production code from day one.
Work across the full stack: backend, frontend, infrastructure, architecture, analytics, and integrations.
Design and work with data structures, analytics modeling, and parsing complex healthcare datasets to surface actionable insights.
Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making to ensure a clean, stable, and maintainable codebase.
Opportunity to own problems end-to-end and wear multiple hats—whether that's working directly with customers, shaping product roadmaps, or iterating on UX design.
Work in a hybrid environment in NYC, collaborating closely with the team in person.
2+ years of experience as a full-time full-stack TypeScript software engineer (back-end leaning)
Experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js
Experience in healthcare and fintech preferred
Extremely high competency with AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor)
Ideally 1+ year at a venture-backed startup (pre Series B)
Experience turning unstructured, complex datasets into business insights
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, LLMs, and cloud-based data pipelines
Able to work on-site in a hybrid environment (4 days/wk in NYC, Union Square)
Authorized to work in the U.S.
Salary bands: $130-200K (includes mid level and senior bands; candidates with higher YOE may be considered for principal level)
Competitive equity package
Fully covered health insurance and competitive stipend to cover dental, co-pays etc (ICHRA)
401(k)
Flexible PTO that we actually take (encouraged minimum of 15 days)
Lunch provided in office Mon-Thurs
Commuter benefits, new work equipment and workstation set up, etc.
Interview with Head of Engineering (30 minutes)
Interview with Founder/CEO (30 minutes)
Technical interview / practical technical conversation (1 hour)
(Optional) Onsite & lunch with team (~2 hours)
Healthcare contract and cost management SaaS
Kubera Health provides a SaaS platform for healthcare contract and cost management that serves payers and providers in managed care and revenue cycle. It centralizes contracts and related payments from scattered sources into dashboards and uses analytics to optimize terms and spending. The system ingests data from PDFs, emails, and other sources, delivering end-to-end visibility, claims-based intelligence, and scenario modeling to forecast how different contract terms will perform. Its goal is to reduce administrative workload, improve reimbursement accuracy, and help healthcare organizations move toward value-based or risk-based payment models.
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