Founding Backend Engineer

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🕒 August 13, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $170k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Neon | AI-powered patient access

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Healthcare Insurance • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Neon is an AI-powered patient access solution that automates critical workflows in the healthcare industry. By utilizing advanced AI technology, Neon eliminates manual work related to benefit verification, prior authorization, financial assistance, patient onboarding, and care coordination. This leads to accelerated therapy initiation, significant cost reductions, and improved patient satisfaction. Trusted by healthcare leaders, Neon's solutions are designed to enhance operational efficiency and ensure patients receive timely access to necessary treatments.

📋 Description

• Join the team making life-saving drugs accessible • The crisis: Sarah delayed cancer treatment for weeks facing $30,000 monthly costs. Marcus's autoimmune condition worsened while battling insurance denials. • Over 50% of critical prescriptions are abandoned due to: • Cost barriers: Patients with high copays are 5x more likely to abandon treatment • Insurance maze: Complex prior authorizations block access • Logistical challenges: Coordinating medical visits for treatments • Our solution: Neon's technology eliminates these obstacles by automating patient access workflows for pharma companies: —automating authorizations, streamlining benefits verification, and unlocking financial assistance. • Join our mission: We want to live in a world where every patient can navigate the healthcare system with ease, especially when it matters most. Help us ensure that access to medicine is determined by clinical need—not bureaucracy or financial constraint. When Neon succeeds, patients access life-saving treatments without bankrupting their families, while we build an AI automation powerhouse serving healthcare's biggest enterprises. • Join Neon is building the automation platform for healthcare enterprises. • We're backed by top Silicon Valley investors. • We're profitable and growing fast with 7+ figure customer contracts.

🎯 Requirements

• Proficiency with Node, Typescript, and Python. • Good understanding of system design concepts - distributed systems, reliability/performance tradeoffs • Experience in API design, implementation, and documentation • Experience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Github Copilot, Claude, etc) • Experience working with CI/CD systems and good DevOps skills a nice to have • Excellent documentation and testing habits • Proficiency with version control (Git) • 10x mindset - you’ll be among the first engineering hires! • You are a fun human! • Good time management and planning skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Frighteningly ambitious: We’re not just idealists. We’re seasoned builders. On a mission to build a $200B+ company—on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow—serving the largest healthcare enterprises. • Experienced founding team: Built by exited founders, YC & MIT alum, ex-Tesla, ex-Google engineers. • Hypergrowth with stability: We went from initial idea to 7+ figure customer contracts in just 4 months—in an industry where sales cycles typically take 12-18 months. We are profitable and relentlessly focused on execution. • Powerhouse backing: We’re funded by elite Silicon Valley VCs who''ve backed unicorns like DoorDash, Lyft, and Mammoth Biosciences. And strategic healthcare investors with deep industry connections. • Outsized impact & opportunity: Work at the intersection of agentic AI, healthcare transformation, and life-changing patient outcomes. • Career acceleration: Join early and grow rapidly with us as we scale toward category dominance in healthcare automation.