Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across North America, South America, and Europe to help them hire.
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About Us
We're transforming health insurance for small and medium-sized businesses across the U.S. Our mission is to make healthcare more affordable by driving innovation at every level of health plan design. We are bringing affordable, high-quality, long-term oriented, and ethical health insurance to employers.
2024 marked our breakthrough year: we hit profitability, found strong market fit, and brought affordable healthcare to more than 200 businesses and their employees.
We're a small but mighty team bringing wide-ranging expertise:
Developing mission-critical software at PalantirScaling a Y Combinator startup from the very first hire to Series A (50+ employees)Creating actuarial models used by major health insurersLeading patient operations teams at a high-growth health plan startupAbout the Role
As the Founding Software Engineer | Data Platform, Machine Learning, you will:
Build tools that enhance the productivity and data capabilities of our Data ScientistsArchitect and develop high-performance, scalable backend services powering our AI and ML systems.Scope and spearhead AI and LLM augmentation projects across our product ecosystem.Some of the projects you'll drive:
Quoting API Infrastructure: Build and scale the infrastructure that powers our health insurance quoting API, enabling real-time ML inference on trillions of claims records while seamlessly incorporating millions of new data points daily to continuously improve quote accuracy and speed.Automated Document Parsing: Own our data infrastructure for extracting structured content from large-scale document ingestion pipelines using LLMs and other technologies.What We Value:
Autonomy and Curiosity: You're eager to learn, can work independently, and thrive when given the freedom to solve problems your way.Judgment and Adaptability: You're skilled at prioritizing projects and making sound decisions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.Collaboration: You communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teammates, always keeping the end-user in mind.Ownership: You're ready to own projects end-to-end, from designing architecture to writing clean, maintainable code.Requirements
3+ years of experience as a backend engineer, data engineer, or software engineer with exposure to data pipelines and large-scale infrastructure.Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and scalable system design.Demonstrated ability to design secure, robust, and scalable infrastructure for data and backend systems.Hands-on experience with big data tools (e.g., Spark) and pipeline orchestration platforms (e.g., Dagster, Airflow, Prefect).Proficiency in a backend programming language like Python and solid SQL skills for querying and database design.Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and their data services.Why Join Us?
Be part of a team building industry-changing technology that directly impacts our clients and millions of people.Work alongside a talented team that thrives on innovation, transparency, and collaboration.Join a team that pushes each other to excel, supports one another through challenges, and builds each other up to achieve our best work together.Enjoy competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus a generous vacation policy—work hard, recharge when needed, and come back ready to make an impact.Compensation:
Base: $160-220k base + equity.
Benefits: 100%-paid health insurance benefits, free lunches in the office, fun company retreats, commuter benefits, etc.
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