Senior / Staff Founding Engineer
About the role
Senior/Staff founding engineer role at Rovi Health, an AI-powered care concierge and virtual clinic for employer health plans. You will own end-to-end product surfaces, architecture, and systems, with direct access to founders and a chance to shape engineering culture in a YC-backed startup.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end product surfaces: problem discovery, architecture, coding, shipping, and measurement of impact.
- Own the platform architecture linking text-based member interactions, clinician workflows, AI agents, and employer dashboards.
- Build early intervention systems using claims data, clinical records, and live patient interactions to trigger cost-saving, quality-improving actions.
- Design and scale the virtual clinic infrastructure, with AI-driven intake/triage and human clinician collaboration.
- Make architecture decisions to support rapid growth while maintaining real-time responsiveness.
Qualifications
- 8+ years building software
- Deep experience with Python, React, and TypeScript
- Owned products end to end from user conversations to shipped product and impact measurement
- Built and run production systems with high stakes (healthcare or fintech a plus)
- Shipped AI/ML in production (agent systems, LLM orchestration, data-heavy pipelines)
- Prefer ownership mindset and willingness to navigate ambiguity over strictly defined lanes
Skills
Benefits
- $250K–$320K base + 0.75%–1.5% equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Daily meals in the office
- Wellness stipend

About Rovi Health
Text-based healthcare that slashes employer health spend
We deliver high-quality, affordable healthcare to employees through text. Employers cut 10–20% of healthcare spend. Employees get concierge care they love. Our AI-enabled virtual care treats common conditions over text or video. For in-person care, our AI agents search across all in-network providers using millions of price and quality data points, recommend the best options, then coordinate scheduling. Employees get rewarded for choosing high-value care through copay reimbursements. We've already contracted to roll out to thousands of employees across multiple employers for the 2025-2026 plan year. We're on a mission to build member-aligned, AI-native health insurance, starting with cost containment.
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