Founding Backend Engineer
Hera · New York City, NY
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Jun 30, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding backend engineering role at a healthcare navigation startup, focused on designing and building the core systems that power a care management platform. The work centers on architecting reliable, fault-tolerant services and APIs, shaping data infrastructure for sensitive medical and operational workflows, and establishing engineering standards. Suited to an experienced backend engineer comfortable with cloud infrastructure, varied database types, and service-oriented architecture who wants early ownership of major technical decisions.
Senior level · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,200 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,200–10,700
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting names no specific backend language or framework — the stack is not disclosed. All technical requirements are stated at the capability level (cloud infrastructure, SQL/NoSQL databases, APIs, service-oriented architecture).
AWS is listed with 'or similar' phrasing under a requirements-style section ('Technical fluency'), so it is treated as a hard gate on cloud experience; Azure and GCP are captured as named alternatives.
Security/compliance experience (RBAC, permissions, trust-critical infrastructure) is explicitly called 'a major plus,' so it is treated as preferred.
Compensation is described qualitatively as 'top of market with founding-level equity' — no numeric figures are provided.
The role is in-person in NYC; remote is not offered.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): service-oriented architecture.
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