Software Engineer (The Human Diagnosis Project, San Francisco)

Salary Competitive

The Human Diagnosis Project (Human Dx) is tackling the planetary-scale problem of access to affordable healthcare for all by building the world’s medical intelligence system.


The largest open medical project, Human Dx unites the nation's top medical institutions (including the American Medical Association and the National Association of Community Health Centers), academic research partners (including Harvard, Hopkins, MIT, Berkeley, and UCSF), and financial supporters (including the MacArthur Foundation, the Moore Foundation, Andreessen Horowitz, and Y Combinator).

Human Dx is looking to expand their team with exceptional people who possess a strong sense of social mission. The team includes alumni of leading organizations (e.g., the World Health Organization, the White House, Facebook, McKinsey, and Blackstone) and universities (e.g., Oxford, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley).


Role description

As part of their Engineering team, you will help build the fundamental technologies that enable the Human Diagnosis Project. We’re looking for product engineers who both love working on the nuanced UI details that lead to delight as well as diving into the hard technical challenges involved in building better systems of abstraction for scalability, testability, and modularity. This role requires good product intuition as well as deep engineering expertise.


What you will be doing at Human Dx:

  • Conceptualizing and architecting effective, robust, and delightful interfaces that enable patients to get the best answers from doctors

  • Designing solutions using predictive systems to allow physicians to more effectively encode and structure their medical insight as they collaborate to help their patients

  • Architecting systems to enable real-time collective intelligence between physicians, keeping usability, performance, and security considerations top of mind

  • Contributing across the software stack (mobile, web, backend, and infrastructure) as well as all stages of the development process


Qualities that make you a good fit:

  • Attentive to detail and ability to understand end-user needs and create experiences that elevate their wellbeing

  • Rapidly iterating and working in a fast-paced, product-focused environment

  • Writing prescient, intuitive, and well-tested code to maximize scalability, efficiency, and reusability

  • Experience working and thriving in resource-constrained environments.

  • Deep expertise with modern Javascript frameworks and tooling. (Bonus: React, React Native, Kotlin, and/or Swift)

  • Familiarity with Python, Go, Django, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, and/or WebSockets.


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