Software Engineer — Patient Products (backed by Y Combinator, $5M+ ARR, $23M+ raised)

Software Engineer — Patient Products (backed by Y Combinator, $5M+ ARR, $23M+ raised) Autonomous medical care Location San Francisco Type Full-time Salary $160K - $325K Experience Any (new grads ok) Visa Will sponsor

Apply to this role

About the role

🧠 About Legion Health

At Legion Health , we believe everyone deserves fast, affordable, and world-class health care, and we’re developing the AI infrastructure to deliver it ourselves at world scale.

Legion is building autonomous medical care (the AI doctor), starting with psychiatry. Our AI-native care-delivery platform currently automates 95% of the administrative work required for us to deliver direct patient care. We also recently became the first company ever to receive regulatory authorization to let AI prescribe psychiatric medications , allowing us to not only collapse health care’s admin costs but also its clinical labor costs— shifting this industry’s economics from humans to tokens.

Our technical moat is hard to copy—we combine rich data, production AI, doctors in the loop , and end-to-end care operations to deliver measurably better care to a clinically complex patient population. This has helped us produce tens of thousands of total visits in just 2 years , all while holding ops costs flat and achieving industry-leading patient NPS and retention.

While the last generation of healthcare startups made the existing system incrementally more efficient, Legion is rebuilding full-stack care delivery from first principles. Our vision? A 10X better patient experience that’s higher quality, less expensive, and more scalable than ever before. And a 10X better clinician experience that frees our providers to focus on what matters most: caring for patients.

Legion Health is backed by Y Combinator , leading venture capital firms, and founders from Function Health, Modern Health, Everly Health, Trusted Health, Clipboard Health, PatientPing, Sesame Care, Faire, EasyPost, and fuboTV.

Join us as we build the future of health care: faster, higher-quality, and more affordable, powered by doctors and AI working together.

🚀 Role: Engineer – AI-Native Mental Health Care (In-Person in SF)

Hey—I’m Daniel Wilson , co-founder & CTO at Legion. I studied applied math + CS at Princeton, then led the Office Scripts + Power Automate integration at Microsoft—shipping the highest retention-driving feature in the product. Before that, I did deep learning + RL research. I’m obsessed with building AI systems that make real workflows cleaner, safer, and more autonomous. Github: https://github.com/danielgwilson

I’m hiring a cracked Software Engineer to own core product + agent systems end-to-end . You’ll build the layer that coordinates patients, clinicians, and AI agents as one coherent machine—tight feedback loops, high standards, and real ownership.

This isn’t “just infra.” It’s building the product heart of an autonomous care system: the workflows, the agent behaviors, the guardrails, the integrations, the UX that makes it usable, and the reliability that makes it trusted.

Roles evolve quickly here—including mine. I’m looking for someone who wants to carry real weight , take full ownership, and grow into running major parts of the system—not someone who needs a perfectly scoped box to operate inside.

✅ What You’ll Do

Own our event-driven backend – Architect and scale our Node.js / TypeScript / Supabase (Postgres) / AWS stack. Design schemas, invariants, and workflows that encode how psychiatric care actually operates. Turn messy real-world processes into clean state machines and event streams.

Build real LLM agents as coworkers – Implement tool use, retries, memory, and safety rails. Design action schemas and evaluation loops so agents can run reliably in production. Work on orchestration, context management, and multi-step workflows.

Shape human + AI ops UX – Build internal tools used by both humans and agents. Make it trivial to see “what happened, why, and what should happen next” in any patient journey.

Define world-state & simulation – Model the canonical state of a patient’s journey across time. Power alerting, routing, and decision-making from that live simulation.

Own data, safety & compliance – Engineer HIPAA-compliant pipelines for transcripts, events, and EHR data. Ensure PHI access, agent actions, and human overrides are all auditable.

Drive architecture & strategy – Work directly with me to debate tradeoffs, define new primitives, and decide what we build next.

You don’t need to be a pure backend engineer—we value great product engineers who can learn fast , make strong simplifying decisions, and grow into owning backend/agent systems.

🏆 You Might be a Fit If…

You’ve owned real systems 0→1 or 1→N , not just tickets.

You think in events, state, and invariants , not just CRUD endpoints.

You’re either already LLM-fluent or a strong systems/backend engineer who can get dangerous fast.

You care about velocity and correctness—moving quickly while keeping things understandable and robust.

You like small, high-candor teams and direct feedback.

You want to see your work go live in production weekly , not sit on a roadmap.

🧰 Nice to Have

Experience with Node.js / TypeScript, Postgres, or Supabase.

Experience with LLMs, agents, tool-calling, or RAG.

Experience in healthcare, fintech, or other regulated / high-stakes domains.

Experience in early-stage startups or founding teams.

💻 Our Tech Stack

Backend: Node.js, TypeScript, Supabase (Postgres), AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3)

Frontend: Next.js 15 (App Router), Tailwind, Vercel

AI: OpenAI, Anthropic, tool-calling agents, embeddings + vector DBs, Langfuse-style observability

Other: PHI security, audit trails, real-time schedulers, transcript ingestion

📝 How to Apply and Hiring Process

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/legionhealth/ffdd2b52-eb21-489e-b124-3c0804231424

Overview of our hiring process:

Estimated time-to-hire: 7–10 days

Start date: ASAP

📍 Role Logistics, Compensation, and Benefits

Job type : Full-time

Role type: Engineering

Ideal Experience Level: Doesn’t matter if you’re cracked

US Visa Sponsorship: Yes

Salary

$160,000 to $325,000

Early-Stage Equity : Competitive

Health Insurance : Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Additional

Perks

In-person retreats, meal stipends, etc.

Time Off: Flexible, unlimited vacation policy

Work Hours: Flexible but demanding because we're literally saving lives

Work Setup : In-person @ San Francisco HQ

Impact : Work on something that truly matters to millions of patients and families.

Autonomy and Learning : Ownership over your projects with the freedom to set priorities, shape processes, and drive outcomes end-to-end.

Growth Opportunities: As we scale, we envision our top performers stepping into expanded roles and joining our executive leadership team.

🤝 Equal Employment Opportunity

Legion Health is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, contractors, and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Apply to this role

About Legion Health Legion Health is building autonomous medical care, starting with psychiatry. Our AI-native care-delivery platform currently automates 95% of the administrative work required for us to deliver direct patient care. We also recently became the first company ever to receive regulatory authorization to let AI prescribe psychiatric medications, allowing us to not only collapse health care’s admin costs but also its clinical labor costs—entirely shifting this industry’s economics from humans to tokens.

Our technical moat is hard to copy—we combine rich data, production AI, psychiatrists in the loop, and end-to-end care operations to deliver measurably better care to a clinically complex patient population. This has helped us produce 20K+ total visits and $4.2M in ARR in just 2 years (~4× YoY), all while holding ops costs flat and achieving industry-leading patient NPS and retention.

While the last generation of healthcare startups made the existing system slightly more efficient—for example, by moving providers from out-of-network to accepting insurance—Legion is fundamentally rebuilding full-stack care delivery from first principles. With a global TAM of $2.15T and our recent regulatory approval for autonomous prescribing, we plan to 10× in the next year with a national rollout.

The company was founded by three best friends from Princeton University: Yash was the youngest health economist at the Congressional Budget Office with Medicare and Medicaid expertise, Daniel has an extensive background in deep learning and AI from Microsoft, and Arthur is a self-taught engineer and former McKinsey consultant. Legion Health is backed by Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, and Soma Capital, plus founders from Function Health, Modern Health, Everly Health, Trusted Health, Clipboard Health, PatientPing, Sesame Care, Faire, EasyPost, and fuboTV.

Other roles at Legion Health Staff Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) — Remote | Telehealth | Full-Time or Part-Time | Pennsylvania Full-time · Remote (US) · $150K - $300K

Staff Psychiatrist (MD or DO) — Remote | Telehealth | Full-Time or Part-Time | New York Full-time · Remote (US) · $300K - $500K

Founding People and Talent Leader (backed by Y Combinator, $5M+ ARR, $23M+ raised) Full-time · San Francisco · $170K - $260K

Staff Psychiatrist (MD or DO) — Remote | Telehealth | Full-Time or Part-Time | Idaho Full-time · Remote (US) · $300K - $500K

Collaborating Psychiatrist / Supervising Physician (MD or DO) — Remote | Telehealth | Part-Time | Illinois Contract · Remote (US) · $50K - $150K

Similar roles Aren Powering Successful Nursing Shifts

Member of Technical Staff (MTS) Full-time · New York, NY, US / Remote (US) · $145K - $175K

Retell AI Supercharge Your Contact Center Operations with AI Phone Agents

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Hong Kong) Full-time · Hong Kong · $125K - $215K

Cyble Cyble - World’s First Intelligence-Driven, AI-Native Security…

Principal Engineer – CPU Hardware Telemetry & Silicon Security Full-time · US / IN / SG … · $200K - $400K

Work at a Startup Home Jobs Learn Resume Review Y Combinator About YC Press Privacy & Terms Contact Jobs by Role Software Engineer Jobs Design & UI/UX Jobs Product Manager Jobs Sales Jobs Marketing Jobs Support Jobs Operations Jobs Jobs by Location Software Engineer Jobs in San Francisco Product Manager Jobs in San Francisco Software Engineer Jobs in New York Product Manager Jobs in New York Software Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles Product Manager Jobs in Los Angeles Remote Jobs Remote Software Engineer Jobs Remote Design & UI/UX Jobs Remote Product Manager Jobs Remote Sales Jobs Remote Marketing Jobs Remote Support Jobs Remote Operations Jobs