Full-Time
Backend Engineer 2
Financial Incentives
Posted on 9/26/2025
Garner Health
201-500 employees
Identifies in-network providers via big data
Compensation Overview
$135k - $165k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Remote in USA
Remote
Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States.
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- 3+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
- Proficiency in Python is required
- Experience building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
- A strong understanding of the AWS menu of services
- Hands-on experience with SQL
- Experience deploying, supporting, and operating applications running on Kubernetes
- Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices
- Authorization to work lawfully in the United States of America as Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
- Build and maintain the back-end services that power Garner’s core business
- Participate in an on-call rotation by responding to system outages and support escalations from internal stakeholders
- Collaborate across disciplines to provide timely and accurate technical designs, work estimates, and answers to technical questions
- Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
- Design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
- Ideate on new features and work with data to find new insights
- Research and work with the latest tools and technologies
- Collaborate using our tech stack
- A willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
- Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment
- A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system
Garner Health uses big data from the largest U.S. claims database to help people find in-network providers who diagnose accurately and deliver better patient outcomes, while offering reimbursement of out-of-pocket costs. Its app plus Concierge service guides individuals and families to top providers that are in-network, available, and nearby. For corporate clients, Garner provides a non-disruptive solution that uses data-driven insights to enrich benefits and reduce costs without changing plans or networks, delivering value-based care. The company generates revenue from its consumer app and Concierge service as well as its corporate solutions. Overall, Garner aims to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs for individuals and organizations by turning extensive medical-record data into actionable provider recommendations and cost-saving reimbursement programs.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$179.3M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2019
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Serves 2.5 million members across 700 clients with 130% YoY revenue growth.
- Employers achieve 12% healthcare spending reduction in first year of use.
- Raised $118M Series D at $1.35B valuation led by Kleiner Perkins in February 2026.
What critics are saying
- Optum deprioritizes Garner recommendations for internal tools within 12-24 months.
- Aetna, Cigna, Anthem internalize provider rankings, eroding data licensing in 12-24 months.
- Adverse selection inflates costs as sicker patients join, cutting ROI in 6-18 months.
What makes Garner Health unique
- Garner analyzes 60 billion records from 320 million patients across 82 specialties.
- App and Concierge identify in-network top 20% doctors with 75% lower complications.
- Reimburses out-of-pocket costs for top providers, saving employees 80% per visit.
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↑ 0%Garner Health raises $118M at a $1.35B valuation. The doctor quality analytics company's total funding to date is around $200 million. By Jessica Hagen | February 12, 2026 | 12:02 PM Garner Health, which offers analytics to evaluate and rank in-network physicians based on quality and outcomes, received $118 million in Series D funding, bringing its total raise to approximately $200 million and its valuation to $1.35 billion. Kleiner Perkins led the round, with participation from Redpoint, Maverick, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Mercy, Plus Capital and other existing investors. WHAT IT DOES The company works with employers to help their employees find high-performing in-network doctors using analytics and cost analysis. It also works with health plans to deliver provider rankings, directories, and benefit design based on data. The New York-based company says its medical claims dataset includes more than 60 billion medical records from 320 million patients, which includes data from health plans and hospitals. Garner Health will use the funds to expand and enhance its platform and grow its workforce. "The single most important health decision we make is which individual doctor we see when we need care," Nick Reber, founder and CEO of Garner Health, said in a statement. "Our data shows that the top-performing doctors have 75% lower rates of complications and mortality than their peers. By identifying these providers and creating the financial incentives for patients to see them, we aren't just saving money - we're fundamentally re-engineering the healthcare marketplace to reward quality," he continued. MARKET SNAPSHOT In 2021, the company announced it secured a strategic investment from Optum Ventures, the venture arm of Optum and part of UnitedHealth Group, though the amount of the funding was not disclosed. That same year, Garner Health received $45 million in Series B funding, bringing its raise to $65 million. It also secured $12.5 million in Series A funding in 2021, and a year before raised $4.5 million in a seed round.
Garner Health has raised $118 million in a Series D round led by Kleiner Perkins, reaching a $1.35 billion valuation. The funding brings total capital raised to approximately $200 million, with participation from Redpoint, Maverick, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and other existing investors. The New York-based company uses a dataset covering 320 million patient records to identify high-performing doctors and incentivises patients to use them by covering out-of-pocket costs. Garner's platform shows top-performing doctors have 75% lower complication and mortality rates than peers. The company now serves over 2.5 million members across 700 clients and has grown revenue by more than 130% year-over-year. Employers using Garner see an average 12% reduction in healthcare spending in the first year, whilst employees pay 80% less out-of-pocket when seeing recommended providers.
The AlleyWatch startup daily funding report: 2/10/2026. The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 2/10/2026 featuring funding details for Runway, Garner Health, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Runway - $315M Series E. GENERATIVE AI Runway, a generative AI platform for creating and editing videos, images, and multimedia content using text-to-video and related AI models, has raised $315M in Series E funding led by General Atlantic. Founded by Alejandro Ortiz, Anastasis Germanidis, and Cristobal Barrera in 2018, Runway has now raised a total of $859.5M in reported equity funding. REACH NYC TECH LEADERS AlleyWatch is NYC's leading source of tech and startup news, reaching the city's most active founders, investors, and tech leaders. Advertise today Garner Health - $118M Series D. HEALTHCARE Garner Health, a healthcare benefit platform for finding high-quality in-network doctors, has raised $118M in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins. Founded by Nick Reber in 2019, Garner Health has now raised a total of $219.3M in reported equity funding. You are seconds away from signing up for the hottest list in NYC tech! Somethings - $19.2M Series A. MENTAL HEALTH Somethings, a digital peer-mentorship service connecting teenagers with trained Certified Peer Specialist mentors for social and emotional support, has raised $19.2M in Series A funding led by Catalio Capital Management. Founded by Patrick Gilligan in 2022, Somethings has now raised a total of $28.6M in reported equity funding.
NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Garner Health Technology, Inc. today announced that its doctor search tool has been recognized with an honorable mention in Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. This annual Fast Company award celebrates "the sustainable designs, innovative products, bold social initiatives, and other creative projects that are changing the way we work, live, and interact.The world-changing benefits of Garner's doctor search tool are particularly important for functionally uninsured employees who are burdened with deductibles so high they cannot afford to pay for medical care. Garner's applications help improve health outcomes and lower costs for both employees and employers by transforming new healthcare transparency data and other data sources into the largest healthcare database in the nation.This year's World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 45 winners, 216 finalists and more than 300 honorable mentions,with health, climate, energy and AI among the most popular categories. A panel of Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 2,200 entries across urban design, education, nature, politics, technology, corporate social responsibility and more. Several new categories were added this year, including rapid response, crypto and blockchain, agriculture and workplace
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