Founding Engineer
- Salary
- $210,000 - $260,000 annually
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · New York
- Visa
- Not offered
Open. First seen 29 October 2026.
About the role
About the Role
Join an early-stage healthtech team as a backend-leaning Founding Engineer, owning the core platform and its architecture. Your work will support reliable medication pricing, claims processing, and payments where accuracy and uptime directly affect patients and pharmacies.
What You'll Do
- Own backend APIs, database design, permissions, privacy boundaries, backups, staging, observability, and deployments.
- Build and operate a real-time drug pricing system that gathers prices from multiple sources and routes claims to cost-effective options.
- Manage eligibility and claims flows through an adjudication engine, and build an in-house engine validated against replayed real claims.
- Own payment infrastructure between brokers and pharmacies, with stringent reliability requirements.
- Make foundational architecture and schema decisions as the platform scales.
What We're Looking For
- Three to eight years of backend or full-stack engineering experience, with strong backend, architecture, and database schema design skills.
- Experience building and operating production systems where errors or downtime have direct financial or operational consequences, such as payments, ledgers, trading, or critical infrastructure.
- Proficiency with Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, row-level security, GCP, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, React, and TypeScript.
- Experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor.
- Comfort operating as a sole engineer at an early-stage startup, making scaling decisions, and constructively challenging technical direction.
- Startup experience alongside experience in larger technology organizations is valued. Experience outside healthcare, health benefits, and pharmacy is required.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $210,000 to $260,000 annually. Equity is not specified. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in New York, New York, United States.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
FastAPI · GCP · PostgreSQL · SQL
Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 126 open postings.
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.
The team: Client Roles
This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (70 of 125), TypeScript (45 of 125), LLM (44 of 125), React (37 of 125), Machine Learning (35 of 125), AWS (26 of 125), JavaScript (24 of 125)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Lead Software Engineer, Platform posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, AI Agents posted Oct 29
- Backend Infrastructure Engineer, Anti-Bot posted Oct 29
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Oct 29
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 29
- Senior Control Electronics Engineer posted Oct 29
- Principal Analog/Mixed Signal Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Fullstack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Frontend Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding ML Researcher posted Oct 29
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, Compiler posted Oct 29
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- AI Scheduler posted Oct 29
- Product Manager, Supply Chain posted Oct 29
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Mid-Senior Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Manager, Product Growth posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, iOS posted Oct 29
- Electrical & Computer Engineer posted Oct 29
- Full Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Backend Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Operate posted Oct 29
- Founding AI Agent Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, Full Stack posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems posted Oct 29
- Founding Full-Stack Engineer posted Oct 29
- Mid/Senior Full Stack AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- Engineering Lead posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Product Manager posted Oct 29
- Director of Engineering posted Oct 29
- Founding Senior Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Robotics Software Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Research Engineer, Robot Learning posted Oct 29
- Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Platform Security Engineer posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, Mid-Level to Staff+ posted Oct 29
- Senior Security Engineer posted Oct 29
- Head of Software Architecture, Embodied AI Platform posted Oct 29
- AI Solutions Consultant posted Oct 29
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Oct 29
- Lead AI Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied ML posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied Researcher posted Oct 29
- Agent Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Product Engineer, AI posted Oct 29
- Senior Product Manager, Staffing and AI Agents posted Oct 29
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Senior Software Engineer, Backend posted Oct 29
- Sales Engineer posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer, Applied AI posted Oct 29
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Member of Technical Staff, ML Systems posted Oct 29
- Product Lead posted Oct 29
- Software Engineer, C++ Systems posted Oct 29
- Founding Engineer posted Oct 29
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 29
- Staff Product Manager posted Oct 29
- Lead Product Engineer posted Oct 29
- Machine Learning Engineer posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Solutions Engineer, Digital Native and Mid-Market posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Product Manager posted Oct 28
- Mechanical Design Engineer posted Oct 28
- Member of Technical Staff, Agent Platform posted Oct 28
- Senior Security Engineer posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 28
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Tactical Edge posted Oct 28
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer, RL Environments posted Oct 28
- Founding Backend & Infrastructure Engineer posted Oct 28
- Solutions Engineer posted Oct 28
- Product Engineer, Scraping posted Oct 28
- Senior Software Engineer, Customer Studio Backend posted Oct 28
- Founding Reinforcement Learning Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Quantitative Developer posted Oct 28
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior Engineering Manager posted Oct 28
- Full-Stack Software Engineer posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer, Security posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 28
- Software Engineer, Edge AI Systems posted Oct 28
- Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems (Core) posted Oct 28
- Agent Deployment Engineer posted Oct 28
- Engineering Manager, Agents posted Oct 28
- Security Lead posted Oct 28
- Founding Fullstack Engineer posted Oct 28
- Lead Platform Engineer posted Oct 28
- Senior/Staff Product Engineer, Applied AI posted Oct 28
- Applied AI Engineer posted Oct 28
- Founding Member of Technical Staff, Markets posted Oct 28
- Senior / Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 28
- Founding Product Designer posted Oct 28
- Data Engineer, Data Product posted Oct 27
- Member of Technical Staff, Full Stack posted Oct 27
- Electrical Engineer posted Oct 27
- Founding PLM Solutions Engineer posted Oct 27
- Principal Software Engineer, Perception posted Oct 27
- Senior Software Engineer, Design posted Oct 27
- Founding Software Engineer posted Oct 27
- Forward Deployed Engineer posted Oct 27
- Software Engineer posted Oct 27
- Technical Product Manager posted Oct 27
- Design Engineer posted Oct 27
- Chief Product Officer posted Oct 27
- Research Crawling Engineer posted Oct 27
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure posted Oct 27
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer posted Oct 27
- Software Engineer, AI Agents posted Oct 24
From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.
Posting history
Reposted 2 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in New York was taken down and the role was posted again.
- 29 October 2026 – open (this posting)
- 29 October 2026 – open
- 29 October 2026 – open
- 28 October 2026 – closed 29 October 2026
- 28 October 2026 – closed 29 October 2026
- 25 October 2026 – closed 26 October 2026
- 25 October 2026 – closed 26 October 2026
- 25 October 2026 – closed 27 October 2026
Salary context
49 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 156,000 to USD 250,000 a year.
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