Founding Engineer

Shake HC

The most effective B2B marketing platform for healthcare commercial teams

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Founding Engineer

• $100k – $150k • 0.5% – 5.5%
• | New York City
• |4 years of exp
• |Full Time

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Job Location

New York City

Remote Work Policy In office - WFH flexibility

Visa Sponsorship Not Available

RelocationAllowed

Skills

• Node.js

• TypeScript

• AWS Cloud Services

• React.js

• AWS Cognito

• Cloudfront

• Tanstack Query

• Tanstack Router

About the job

Location: New York City (in office 3–4 days/week) · Travel: Occasional, for key conferences · Reports to: Founder & CEO

About The Company

The Company is an early stage startup seeking to become the most effective B2B marketing platform for healthcare commercial teams - starting with the conference channel ($94B+ of spend and growing). We match professionals with the people most worth meeting, driving meaningful conversations and innovation across the industry. The Company is founded and led by an experienced go-to-market leader with a decade of experience in a health-tech and marketing space.

The role

As the Company's Founding Engineer and first engineering hire, you'll own the platform end to end: the matching engine that pairs professionals, the front-end platform attendees use onsite, and the tools organizers and marketing teams rely on to guide their in-person strategy. You'll bring our product in-house from an outsourced team, set the technical direction, and ship fast with AI at the core of how you work. This is a founding-team seat with a clear path to an executive role.

What you'll do

• Own the platform end to end:

• Build across the stack. Design, build, and ship features across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure.

• Serve two audiences.

• Deliver a polished consumer experience for attendees and reliable enterprise tooling for organizers and marketing teams.

• Ship for live events. Keep the platform fast and stable when conferences go live.

• Build the matching engine

• Develop matching and recommendations. Build and improve the models that rank and recommend the people most worth meeting and the conferences worth going to.

• Guide data analysis and testing. Measure match quality and engagement, build analytics dashboards and admin capabilities, and iterate on what drives meaningful connections.

• Bring engineering in-house

• Own the transition. Take over the existing codebase from our outsourced team and fully in-source it within the first few months.

• Set the foundation. Choose the architecture, tooling, and practices the Company will scale on, and help hire the team as we grow.

• Move fast with AI. Use AI across the engineering workflow to ship at a pace well beyond a typical team of one.

• Shape the product

• Partner on the roadmap. Work with the Founder and Chief of Staff to turn customer feedback into product priorities.

• Do whatever it takes. Jump into any problem that moves the company forward. As our only engineer, you'll wear every technical hat, and you get to learn a ton across the business.

• What you bring

• 4+ years as a full-stack software engineering experience, with machine learning experience as a big plus.

• Experience building both consumer-facing applications and enterprise software.

• Proficiency using AI tools to build, test, and scale quickly.

• A track record of owning systems end to end, from architecture to deployment and monitoring, with minimal support.

• Comfort taking over an existing codebase and transitioning work from an outsourced team.

• A scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves mindset and comfort with ambiguity at an early-stage startup.

• Able to commute into NYC office 3–4 days per week.

• Bonus points

• Experience with ML, especially matching, recommendation, or ranking systems

• Experience as an early or founding engineer at a startup

• Experience in healthcare, health-tech, or the events and conference industry

• Experience with security and handling customer/consumer data

• Current Tech Stack

• Cloud & hosting: AWS

• Web app: S3 + CloudFront

• API: Docker containers on ECS Fargate, behind API Gateway

• Database: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL

• File storage: private S3 buckets with time-limited signed URLs

• Config & secrets: AWS SSM Parameter Store / Secrets Manager

• Logging & monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch

• Authentication: Amazon Cognito, with email/password, Google and Microsoft sign-in (Microsoft goes through Auth0)

• Languages & frameworks: TypeScript across the whole codebase

• Frontend: React (Vite), TanStack Router and TanStack Query

• Backend: Node.js with NestJS (REST API), Drizzle ORM and Zod validation

• AI: Anthropic Claude, JEV

• Third-party services: Google Calendar & Microsoft Outlook, Pusher, Resend, Amazon SES

• Other: Mixpanel, Retool, GitHub, pnpm + Turborepo monorepo, Vitest/Playwright

• Why join

• Work directly alongside the Founder/CEO as a core member of the founding team

• Real ownership and a fast track to an executive leadership role

• Build the Company's technical foundation from day one

• Help shape how healthcare professionals drive innovation in a crucial industry

• Competitive salary and meaningful early-employee equity

• Apply Now

About the company

Shake HC

The most effective B2B marketing platform for healthcare commercial teams1-10 Employees

New York City

1-10

SaaS

Healthcare

Events

Marketing

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Shelly Sasson Founder

New York City

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