Founding Engineer: AI Native HealthTech Startup at Kubera Health

What we're looking for

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.

What you'll do

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

• 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 Process

1. Interview with Head of Engineering (30 minutes)

2. Interview with Founder/CEO (30 minutes)

3. Technical interview / practical technical conversation (1 hour)

4. (Optional) Onsite & lunch with team (~2 hours)