What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer position at Nurra Health?
About us
Nurra Health is building the missing layer between patients and the US healthcare system.
We connect people who have complex health conditions with a health advocate – an actual human – who fights for them and acts as their champion in the healthcare system. Using both patient data and the latest medical research, we develop care plans, arrange care logistics, act as thought partners, and help people book and prepare for appointments. Behind the scenes, we supercharge our human advocates with cutting-edge agent systems using the latest AI capabilities, allowing them to effectively support people wherever they might be in their journey.
Job description
Nurra Health is hiring a Founding Engineer to help build and scale the multi-agent systems at the heart of NurraAI.
As a mission-driven and people-focused company, we believe that how you approach your work is as important as the skills you bring to the team. As an engineer, you are excited to improve the lives and health of thousands of patients. You have deep backend knowledge and consider yourself a systems thinker who strives to understand the “why” behind every decision. You thrive in environments where you have the autonomy and support to explore solutions that span the technical and business dimensions. And you are eager to make a dent on a meaningful problem and help shape the direction of our product and tech in a cutting-edge field.
We are a hybrid company. We value in-person interactions, and have a local presence in San Francisco and New York City. We also meet in-person as a company once a quarter. Our ideal candidate is located in either city, and excited to work in person somewhat regularly.
Skills and experience
- Established record of building and scaling complex backend systems
- Proficient in Python (we build with Django)
- Experience building / tinkering with LLM APIs, agentic systems, graphs, and tools (we use OpenAI and the LangGraph library)
- Empathy and strong communication skills
- Ability to learn and adapt quickly
- Nice to have : Frontend or UI experience (we use TailwindCSS, AlpineJS, and HTMX)
- Nice to have : Infrastructure experience (we deploy on GCP using Terraform)
