Back End Engineer

Millions of people turn to search engines and social media for medical information, but these platforms can be overwhelming and filled with misinformation. That's why Roon was created.

Our interdisciplinary team of doctors, patients, caregivers, public health experts, designers, engineers, content creators, and ex-Pinterest executives has come together to reimagine how people access health information, with trust and expert curation at the forefront.

Today, Roon is a video-based medical Q&A platform, providing trusted answers to health questions. Thousands of experts from top medical institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UCSF, Cornell, UPenn, Duke, and Columbia have contributed content and are sharing Roon with their patients.

Our ambition is to become the doctor in your pocket for all of health, blending world-class expertise with AI-driven assistance and guidance. And we’re just getting started.

Work with our CTO and engineering lead on overall application architecture. We use PostgreSQL, Python (Django Rest Framework), and the Google Cloud Platform (specifically, Google Cloud Run) to bring our application to life. So far, we’ve built a search engine and an AI agent within a deeply empathetic app that “understands” what our caregivers and patients are going through. You’re going to help us scale that, and make it even better. We’re also building tools for medical professionals to answer commonly asked questions.

You love to learn. You have a thirst for knowledge and constantly seek to expand your understanding of the world. Your curiosity spans a wide range of topics, with a special passion for all things at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

You bring authentic care to everything you do, valuing each individual’s unique journey. You understand the profound impact that empathy and thoughtful attention can have on people’s lives.

Striving for excellence in your craft fuels you. You hold a high bar for yourself and what you work on but do so in a way that inspires others and brings joy to the process.

You dig beneath the surface, setting aside trendy thinking to arrive at insights and perspectives rooted in first principles. Your approach brings new, creative perspectives to solving problems.

Leadership in software architecture. You write and think clearly, and understand that thinking is writing. Your architecture docs will be normative for what we build, whether it’s a collection of asynchronous worker threads or dynamic real time application surfaces. Performance and scale matter to you, and you’ll help us achieve both.

Strong coding skills. You'll be a lead engineer on our team. You get that there’s something beautiful about clean readable code. You know exactly when to *args and when to **kwargs when defining new constructs; a good with makes you smile; you’ll yield when iterators bubble over. We use Python in case you were wondering, but if you’re less familiar, you’ll just pick it up.

Experience with the Django framework or similar. We use models and views on top of PostgresQL, with technologies such as Redis, PubSub, Celery, and Pinecone. You’ve seen this before in equivalent frameworks.

Deep knowledge of a cloud platform and all the tools that come out of the box (so 5+ years of Google Cloud Platform or AWS experience is what we’re looking for).

Some experience with Docker or Kubernetes. We use container-based workflows in our system, and we intend to evolve these over time. If you’re DevOps adept, we want to hear form you!

A deep understanding of “API-led” or “service oriented” architectures, using a JSON + REST design. Useful work here would be using Flask + Python to design APIs, or the Django Rest Framework.

Comfort and experience (5+ years worth) with data stuff: SQL solutions (Postgres interfaces), and Bigtable, or Hadoop/Hive.

Product and design sense. We are building for a population navigating difficult health conditions, so ensuring that our product is intuitive, accessible, and empathetic every step of the way is imperative. Engineers work closely with product and design - collaborating, ideating and even challenging the team if something doesn’t fall in line with our patient & caregiver first approach.

You'll receive competitive and transparent pay and equity. And if you happen to live in NYC or SF, where the cost of living is generally higher, we'll make pay adjustments accordingly. You can come and visit New York City, where we're based, whenever you want.

Fill out the form or email careers@roon.care below! If it’s a good fit our CTO will reach out to you.