Software Engineer

The healthcare payment system is a complex and inefficient maze - healthcare practices leave $125 billion in revenue uncollected each year, lost in the chaos of fragmented financial data, manual workflows, and opaque payer systems. This financial uncertainty leaves practices struggling to stay afloat, while valuable revenue slips through the cracks.

Joyful Health is building the AI-powered financial operating system for healthcare practices. Our mission is to bring the joy back to running a private practice by simplifying financial operations so providers can focus on patient care. We spent 10 months working as fractional CFOs for a dozen practices, doing this work side by side with providers as we developed our product.

We just closed a funding round led by world-class investors and angels including the founders of MongoDB & KAYAK.

We’re looking for a talented and ambitious backend engineer with 5+ years of experience in developing distributed pipelines who’s excited to solve one of the toughest challenges in healthcare—financial data interoperability. You’ll play a key role in shaping our data integration strategy and enabling us to onboard customers at scale.

Integrating the financial data of small healthcare practices—each with its own unique systems—has long been a roadblock in the industry. This has meant that very few solutions have emerged in the market that are actually able to solve the unique challenges of small medical practices (and even larger ones). We’ve begun to crack this challenge, and the work that we’ve done so far has enabled us to seamlessly onboard new data sources in days, not months. This entirely opens up a massive untapped market.

As a software engineer, you’ll have an outsized impact on the company’s trajectory, working on a critical problem that’s central to our success. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work on something extremely challenging and make a huge difference. You should be comfortable (and excited!) about working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment where you'll be able to wear many hats and take on new challenges as they arise.

This role is full-time. We’re looking for candidates based in NYC.

At Joyful Health, we’re on a mission to fix one of the most broken systems in healthcare. Joining us means having the opportunity to make a direct, meaningful impact on the lives of clinicians and the financial health of their practices. Here’s what you can expect from working with us:

🚀 Meaningful Impact You’ll be tackling one of the most complex challenges in healthcare—helping practices thrive in a chaotic financial landscape. Your work will directly contribute to solving one of the most hair on fire problems for providers, ensuring that they can focus on what they do best: caring for patients.

🔑 Autonomy & Ownership As an early team member, you’ll have significant autonomy and the chance to shape our company from the ground up. You’ll have ownership over your work and the freedom to challenge the status quo in an environment that values initiative and creativity.

📈 Growth & Learning We’re a small, ambitious team with big goals, which means you’ll be constantly learning and growing. You’ll take on new challenges, expand your skill set, and have direct access to experienced founders and advisors who are invested in your development. We also offer stipends for professional development courses & books (that we often will partake in together!) so we can all continuously grow.

💰 Competitive Compensation & Equity We believe that our team is our most valuable asset. We offer competitive compensation packages, strong equity, and the opportunity to share in the success of Joyful Health. We want you to feel supported, both financially and professionally, as we grow together.

❤️ Be Your Best Self We provide the benefits you need to stay happy and healthy, including comprehensive healthcare benefits, unlimited PTO (with a minimum of 10 days off a year), and flexibility so you can take care of yourself. We also organize regular team off-sites and events to ensure that even as we tackle big problems we enjoy the journey.