Opkit
Software Engineer (Contract)
Opkit, New York, New York, us, 10261
Come revolutionize healthcare payments as a Software Engineer at Opkit, a Y Combinator startup!
About Us & VisionOpkit is an automated health insurance verification startup. Our software helps healthcare providers efficiently collect, verify and track their patients' insurance. If you've ever been confused about whether you are in-network w/ your doctor, or how much a doctor's visit is going to cost - that is what we are solving. Our vision is to become "Stripe for healthcare" - the default processor for all payments involving US health insurance.
Opkit was founded in June 2021 by Sherwood Callaway and Justin Ko, both early engineers from Brex, the $12b financial technology startup.
About the RoleAs our Founding Engineer, you will play a key role in building out Opkit's next-generation healthcare payments product, own critical decisions about our long-term technology stack, recruit and train our first engineers, and establish our engineering culture.
Your responsibilities would include:
Designing and implementing new product features end-to-end
Testing new features and deploying them to production
Maintaining and improving our cloud infrastructure
Triaging issues that arise in production
Solving complex technical problems that will unlock massive customer value
Collaborating closely with co-founders (both technical) to understand business requirements
Recruiting and training new engineers
Establishing our engineering culture and working norms
Some technical projects you would tackle:
Re-architecting the Opkit platform for scale
Managing a fleet of microservices
Integrating with insurance companies
Designing, implementing and operating a customer-facing API
Designing, implementing and operating a system that extracts information from insurance card photos
TechFrontend
React
Typescript
Emotion (Styled Components)
Apollo
Backend
Node
Express
Typescript
GraphQL
OpenAPI
TypeORM
OpenAPI
PostgreSQL
Infrastructure
AWS
Docker
Cloudformation/Terraform
Buildkite
Datadog
Retool
About Us & VisionOpkit is an automated health insurance verification startup. Our software helps healthcare providers efficiently collect, verify and track their patients' insurance. If you've ever been confused about whether you are in-network w/ your doctor, or how much a doctor's visit is going to cost - that is what we are solving. Our vision is to become "Stripe for healthcare" - the default processor for all payments involving US health insurance.
Opkit was founded in June 2021 by Sherwood Callaway and Justin Ko, both early engineers from Brex, the $12b financial technology startup.
About the RoleAs our Founding Engineer, you will play a key role in building out Opkit's next-generation healthcare payments product, own critical decisions about our long-term technology stack, recruit and train our first engineers, and establish our engineering culture.
Your responsibilities would include:
Designing and implementing new product features end-to-end
Testing new features and deploying them to production
Maintaining and improving our cloud infrastructure
Triaging issues that arise in production
Solving complex technical problems that will unlock massive customer value
Collaborating closely with co-founders (both technical) to understand business requirements
Recruiting and training new engineers
Establishing our engineering culture and working norms
Some technical projects you would tackle:
Re-architecting the Opkit platform for scale
Managing a fleet of microservices
Integrating with insurance companies
Designing, implementing and operating a customer-facing API
Designing, implementing and operating a system that extracts information from insurance card photos
TechFrontend
React
Typescript
Emotion (Styled Components)
Apollo
Backend
Node
Express
Typescript
GraphQL
OpenAPI
TypeORM
OpenAPI
PostgreSQL
Infrastructure
AWS
Docker
Cloudformation/Terraform
Buildkite
Datadog
Retool