Neon
healthcare
StaffSoftwareEngineer
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“Staff Software Engineer at Neon. Skills: Node, Typescript, Python, system design, distributed systems, API design. Automating patient access workflows for pharma companies. Automating authorizations”
What You'll Achieve.
Build a $200B+ company; Patients access life-saving treatments without bankrupting their families; Build an AI automation powerhouse serving healthcare's biggest enterprises; Dramatically improving the healthcare system—and patients’ lives; Achieve goals together that would be impossible alone; Make a big dent in the universe; Sprint to capture the market; Feel a sense of ownership for your work; Make an outsized contribution towards increasing the value of that equity; Bringing state-of-the-art AI systems to pharma; Bringing life-saving medications to the patients who need them
Industry & Context.
Pattern match on past problems; Automating patient access workflows for pharma companies; Automating authorizations; Streamlining benefits verification; Unlocking financial assistance
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis, Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4-7 years of experience (or equivalent) as a software engineer, Experience working on projects touching many parts of a large codebase, Ability to work with the rest of the team to define priorities, suggest good solutions, and excel at implementation, Ability to pick up concepts quickly, pattern match on past problems, Obsessed with speed and quality, and help embed that quality into the rest of the team, Self-directed, and do not need help organizing / prioritizing your time, Experience leading engineering projects from start to finish, Must have experience working on projects touching many parts of a large codebase, Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
Nice to Have
Experience in distributed architectures, Experience working with CI/CD systems and good DevOps skills, Worked on projects touching many parts of a large codebase, Project lead at a scaling startup experience, Generalist experience across many areas of eng, Self-deployed K8s clusters, Micro-services experience
What You'll Do.
Automating patient access workflows for pharma companies
Automating authorizations
Streamlining benefits verification
Unlocking financial assistance
Keeps stakeholders informed
Determines key milestones
Provides updates and check-ins to relevant teams and partners
Suggest good solutions
Excel at implementation
Pick up concepts quickly
Pattern match on past problems
Obsessed with speed and quality
Embed quality into the rest of the team
Organizing / prioritizing time
Led engineering projects from start to finish
Build a feature in a past role
Sprint to capture the market
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with the rest of the team to define priorities; Suggest good solutions; Excel at implementation; Support and challenge each other to be our best selves; Achieve goals together that would be impossible alone
Communication Scope
Keeps stakeholders informed; Provides updates and check-ins to relevant teams and partners
Process & Methodology
Leads project teams, Provides direction, Determines key milestones, Provides updates and check-ins to relevant teams and partners, Define priorities, Self-directed, and do not need help organizing / prioritizing your time, Led engineering projects from start to finish
Full Job 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. WHY JOIN NEON? - 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 outco
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