Company Overview
At Oncare, we are building an AI clinical operations platform for oncology. Our mission is to use technology to help improve cancer patient's access to care and reduce the administrative burden that nurses face when navigating patients through their care journey.
Position Overview
Oncare is seeking a founding engineer to join us as the fourth member of our team. As a foundational member of our team, you will work directly with the CTO to develop the next generation of our product and build out our oncology platform offering. You will play a key leadership role in setting our product direction, defining our engineering culture, and scaling the team as we grow and will be compensated with a substantial equity stake in a fast-growing company.
Responsibilities
- 🎨 Front End Engineering: Lead front-end development for our nurse-facing web app and platform offerings (with a focus on development of intuitive, simple workflows) in partnership with our UX designer
- ⚒️ Back End Engineering
- 🧩 Integration & Data Engineering: Support integration with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Create and refine data pipelines to process and analyze data from the EHR to inform our machine learning models.
- 💨 Algorithm Development: Support the development of our core machine learning algorithms
- ☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure: Build and manage our AWS cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, security (HIPAA and SOC 2), and high availability, with a focus on optimizing performance and costs as the platform grows
Tech Stack
We use the MERN stack (React + Typescript, Node JS, Express JS, Mongo DB), AWS, and Python
Qualifications
- Passion for healthcare, especially working with providers & health systems
- Ability to take ownership and work through ambiguity to independently drive projects to completion
- Willingness to embrace new and widely varying challenges in a dynamic startup setting. Interest working at an early-stage startup and experience wearing multiple hats
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to challenges
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with a growing engineering team
- Experience in full-stack development, including proficiency in JavaScript (Node.js), React, and Python
Bonus Points
- Experience building web apps with MERN stack
- Experience working with AWS (Lambda, CloudFront, S3)
- Built data pipelines to process and analyze noisy / sparse (healthcare) datasets
- Security engineering experience (setting up and managing HIPAA- and SOC 2-compliant cloud environments)
- ++ for EHR integration and health systems implementation experience (experience with healthcare data, including familiarity with SMART on FHIR)
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary and equity package, we offer:
Location
Philadelphia / Remote
Culture & Values:
- 🛠️ Creativity: We love bold ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. As one of the founding team members, you will ideate and map out the products you help build. If you enjoy experimenting and finding unconventional solutions, you'll fit right in!
- 🔎 Intellectual Curiosity: We're all about asking the tough questions and diving deep to figure things out. If you're someone who's always learning and eager to explore, you'll thrive here.
- 🤝🏽 Teamwork: We're in this together. Collaboration and supporting each other are in our DNA. If you're someone who enjoys rolling up your sleeves and working as part of a tight-knit team, you'll feel at home.
- 🚀 Passion for Healthcare: We are driven by a shared vision: to revolutionize the care experience for oncology patients and their provider teams. We have witnessed firsthand the distress and anxiety that cancer patients endure due to disjointed, uncoordinated care. Recognizing these systemic inefficiencies, we believe there is an urgent need for transformation---not just for patients but also for the nurses and physicians who face unprecedented burnout due to these overwhelming challenges. Toward this goal, we aspire to a future where oncology providers can truly focus on patient-centric care delivery rather than constantly fighting an uphill battle against onerous, automatable, care logistics. We are looking for teammates who are as passionate about solving these challenges as we are!
Why Join Us?
- 🏥 Impact: Be a key player in transforming cancer care and making a tangible difference in oncology patient's and provider's experience.
- 🧑🏽💼 Ownership and Equity: Take full ownership of technical decisions and shape the future of our platform, roadmap, and team. Own significant equity and call shots in a rapidly scaling startup.
- 📈 Growth: Join a rapidly growing company where you will have the opportunity to both gain depth through learning the entire stack from building product to setting up production ready infra, & breadth across the organization learning more about sales, healthcare strategy, etc.