Legion Health (YC S21) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer – Austin, TX
Full-stack engineer
at Legion Health
Austin, TX

What is Legion Health?

Legion Health is tackling the biggest problem in the mental health space: the massive (and growing) lack of high-quality mental health professionals—and, the resulting lack of access to care.

Today, most telemedicine services, hospitals, and insurance companies are in dire need of mental health clinicians. Yet, thousands of these talented clinicians spend many of their days feeling unproductive; they are interrupted by administrative tasks, patient no-shows, and sub-optimal scheduling.

Legion more efficiently schedules and load-balances doctors' and nurses' time, allowing companies API-based access to a sizable latent supply of clinical time. This also allows doctors and nurses the flexibility to work for as many (or as few) hours as they want, maximizing their pay by matching them with the best patients for their backgrounds.

Join us in building the future of mental health.

About the role:

We're looking for a passionate and creative founding engineer to join our team as an early member! You will work closely with the co-founders, help define the product roadmap, and have a lot of room for flexibility. You are expected to gradually take responsibility for the full engineering stack at Legion Health. You should take the initiative to improve the system at both the design and implementation levels. As Legion grows, you may also help with recruiting and managing our engineering team.

Responsibilities include:

Own end-to-end implementation of projects including initial scoping of features, design of product, architecture of the database, and development of the final deliverable
Work directly with customers to understand their needs and to inform product design decisions

Collaborate with teammates across a wide range of functions including mentoring more junior engineers
Learn new skills and technologies (as required) to solve different engineering challenges while maintaining flexibility
Uphold security requirements and maintain compliance with HIPAA security regulations.

Why you should join Legion Health:

Legion Health is expanding access to mental health care by more optimally balancing clinician time.

Our organization is still incredibly small. We (the co-founders) have been best friends since college. We treat everyone we work with as part of our family—including our contractors and interns. We love those who seek ownership, dream about possibility, and are driven towards building the future they want to see.

What we're looking for:

- “Full-stack capable” engineer with 2+ years of experience as part of a development team
- Enjoys innovating with little direction and having the autonomy to learn and experiment.
- Data-oriented and ruthlessly measures the success of hypotheses.
- Loves building things together as a team.
- Familiar with TypeScript and Node.js
- Strong backend experience and a passion for clean code
- Capable of weighing tradeoffs between robustness and speed
- Based in (or willing to move to) Austin, TX
- Willing to consider remote in certain circumstances

Bonus:
- Experience with React, NextJS, GraphQL
- DevOps experience (AWS/Heroku/GitHub)
- Experience with API design for public APIs and platforms
- Experience in health care (or other highly regulated industries)

Legion Health is an equal opportunity employer.

Equal employment opportunity:
At Legion Health, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Legion Health believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.