Full Stack Founding Engineer

Engineering                 ·                Remote | Toronto, CA preferred                ·                Full time

🧑 About Us

Comend is building the OS for patient groups.

We believe that by equipping people with the best tools to solve their own problems, we can tackle the whole world’s problems better, together. We help patient families find resources and advocacy groups push science forward. Some milestones we hit over the past year of existing:

1. We’ve raised $600K USD to date
2. We launched our first product Librarey last October
3. We’ve gotten close to the community at dozens of rare disease conferences all around NA
4. We’re currently piloting Scimantic with patient groups

A lot of companies say this but at Comend you really will be working in a dynamic environment where you will be working on something different each day. You’ll be building in service of a demographic who will feel the impact of your work. You will meet users who have literally teared up when hearing what we want to build for them, and it’s our job to make it happen 💫.

🚀 Our Mission

Comend is on a mission to help rare disease patients bring their community to a treatment by empowering them with tech. We want to give a fighting chance to the most overlooked and underserved demographic in healthcare. Our goal is to help patients do what they do better, and foster the largest patient community in the world.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Our Team

😍 Core

🤩 Advisors

✅ Our Values

⭐ What we’re looking for

Hi 👋 I’m Flawnson, cofounder and CTO of Comend. We’re looking for a full stack developer to help me build our products. As a mender you’ll never be just a code monkey 🐵, you’ll be a member of the founding team. We need a generalist programmer who can bang out features, turn business logic into code, and bring ideas into reality.

If you’re missing a hard or soft qualification, that’s great; we expect you to learn a lot from this experience. We’re figuring this out and learning as we go too. You’ll be working on all of our products ranging from search platforms 🔍 for patient families to generative AI tools 🤖 for advocacy groups. At the heart of all we do are patients affected not only by rare disease but by all disease.

📋 Responsibilities

• Develop new features on our products based on user feedback
  • For example, building a better way to filter for resources based on location on Librarey
• Manage deployments and pull-requests
• Address hot-fixes to production bugs and issues
• Build a data analytics pipeline for our products
• Help make decisions on engineering best practices
• Report directly to me the CTO and be a team player with our head of product marketing
• Present your progress and ideas at company-wide weeklies

🤘 Soft Qualifications

• 18+ years experience being alive
• Really cares a lot about the mission (bonus points if you have a personal connection)
• Communicates to the point where I want to mute you
• Be great at context/task switching between projects
• Proven record of shipping things on time and on budget
• Know how and when to avoid reinventing the wheel
• Comfortable with risk (we’re a startup)
• Self-starter with initiative and sense of ownership, can go from 0-1
• Likes learning and trying new things

💪 Hard Qualifications

• Is a better programmer than me 😉
  • Write clean, optimized code
  • Good with refactoring, willing to destroy and start over
• Be a damn good Typescript programmer
• Experience deploying products (DevOps and CI/CD experience)
• React supremacist, familiar with NextJS
• Tailwind aficionado, resents CSS with a passion
• Good with GraphQL and willing to learn tRPC
• Experienced with Git and PRs on Github
• Knows their way around GCP
• Have good taste in design

🤞 Bonus

• Experience with health data and security best practices/compliance
• Have experience building product analytics pipelines
• Be a Python programmer
• Good at basic data science and ML ops/engineering
• Can use Docker and knows a bit about container orchestration

✨ Benefits

• Equity (.25% to 1%)
• 21 days + your birthday of PTO / sick leave
• Annual company retreat
• Annual raises and improved benefits
• 1K referral bonus
• 1K signing bonus
• Flexible work hours
• Consideration for more upstream roles

🤝 Interview process

Does this role sound like a good fit? Email me at flawnson@comendcare.com.

• Include the role’s title in your subject line.
• Send along links that best showcase the relevant things you’ve built and done.
• If we would like to move forward, we will get in touch with you to schedule a conversation within 2-3 business days
• We’ll have a quick intro vibe check meeting.
• We’ll have a follow up meeting for us to talk shop and dive into the tech.
• We’ll have one final conversation with the goal of evaluating culture fit.