Senior Backend Engineer, Founding Team
KuzushiAbout the role
We are looking for strong Backend Engineer to help us ship our healthcare product at JoinAva.com. You’ll be working on large scale data processing system, designing scalable schemas, and shipping AI products that touches thousands of clinicians every single day.
About Kuzushi
Our Secret Ingredient: We are extremely hands-on with our customers. We take the extra mile in everything we do - from distribution to building products.
Kuzushi is building “Palantir” for the Frontline Economy, making running a frontline business as easy as selling in Shopify. Whereas Palantir builds the digital clone for governments, Kuzushi builds the digital clone for healthcare back office.
Ava is the first product under Kuzushi’s umbrella - a trojan horse to owning Data Integration and Employee Attention.
Kuzushi has amassed a star-studded team consisting of 2nd time founders who scaled marketplaces to 9-figure GMV, build consumer apps reaching half a million users, and early engineers at Ramp. Fresh off a $4M Seed led by TQ Ventures - this is a rare opportunity to join a rocketship team and company.
Ava has 10,000+ clinicians using their platform, with 10x growth over next 3 months.
See our thesis at: https://kuzushi.io
About the Role
Kuzushi is reaching a critical growth inflection points. We’re getting ready to 10x our growth over the next three months. You will be tasked with helping us manage that growth - from ensuring our product is enterprise ready, to maintaining low latency, to accelerating our developer velocity through DevEx infrastructure.
We are on a mission to accelerate labor abundance in the Bedrock Economy, and we will do that by building the best engineering team.
What You'll Do
Build!
Collaborate on our technical vision. Lead discussions and implementation of multiple complex projects
Continuously improve our engineering processes, tools, and systems that allow us to scale the code base, productivity, and the team
Recruit, interview and develop your own interview questions, while fostering the culture of excellence, velocity and humility
Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers and interns
What You Need
Have at least 2 years of professional software engineering experience (particularly in an backend engineer or role) or equivalent.
Can ship code very quickly (as a startup we like to move very fast)
Have experience with the following skills / stack
Typescript
Express / NestJS / or Hasura
PostgreSQL
Python
AWS
Nice to Haves
ML / Big Data / AI Research or Work Experience
Familiar with Events Driven Architecture
Have been a startup founder or an early-stage engineer
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