About Neon

The USA spends 20% of our GDP on healthcare. And 1/3 of that is administrative workflows: like phone calls, data entry, and endless back-and-forth between doctors, insurance companies, and patients.

That's $1,500,000,000 of spend on mundane jobs that can now be automated.

Neon is building the automation platform for healthcare: tackling this $1,500,000,000 of administrative bloat.

We're started by tech veterans, YC and MIT alums, and backed by top Silicon Valley investors.

We're profitable and growing fast with 7+ figure customer contracts.

Our vision is to become the AI automation platform for healthcare. We won’t stop until we’ve become a company on the scale of Palantir ($200B+ market cap), selling advanced automation solutions massive enterprises.

We know we’ll have won when healthcare executives in the largest healthcare orgs look to us as exemplars of healthcare automation.

In the future, when a hospital, health insurer, or pharma company exec wonders, “how can I automate this administrative function?” they will immediately think of Neon.

Read on if you want to join a rocket ship that is bringing SOTA AI systems to healthcare.

What’s unique about working here?

Team Personality

We’re a rare blend of mission-driven capitalists.

We see an opportunity to build a $200B+ business while helping patients get access to life-saving drugs.

Working like an athlete

We’re incredibly ambitious. We are sprinting at this market opportunity – playing to win.

As such, we are looking for “athletes” in each functional domain.

We work together, in person, in downtown San Francisco.

And we have frequent team offsites.

We believe this cadence is optimal for modern knowledge work. Remote work is not for us.

Frequent offsites

We spend one week every month offsite in beautiful places like Tahoe, Squamish, Mendocino, the Santa Cruz mountains, and Monterrey. We ship an incredible amount of product on these offsites. And we have a blast — climbing, swimming, surfing, and otherwise enjoying these beautiful places.

Rediscover the magic of coding late into the night, in the zone. Side by side with a team that — through their example of excellence — is inspiring you to reach your potential.

It’s not for everyone.

But if you long for an intense camaraderie that you can’t find elsewhere, then Neon is the place for you.

Skills Required

Technical skills:

• [Mandatory] Proficiency with Node, Typescript, and Python.
• Good understanding of system design concepts - distributed systems, reliability/performance tradeoffs
• Experience in API design, implementation, and documentation
• Experience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Github Copilot, Claude, etc) - we require the use of these in the development process!
• Experience working with CI/CD systems and good DevOps skills a nice to have
• Excellent documentation and testing habits
• Proficiency with version control (Git)

Soft skills:

• 10x mindset - you’ll be the first engineering hire!
• You are a fun human!
• Good time management and planning skills

Experience

Experience level

2+ years of experience as a software engineer.

We’re leveling this role to Pave’s “P3” level:

> "Owns small or function-specific projects. Provides updates and receives input at key milestones within each project."

• You are able to work with the rest of the team to:
  • define priorities
  • suggest good solutions
  • excel at implementation
• You generally pick up concepts quickly, pattern match on past problems.
• You are obsessed with speed and quality, and help embed that quality into the rest of the team.
• You are self-directed, and do not generally need help organizing / prioritizing your time.

Personas - Who should apply?

• Self-directed: We don’t require you to know how to do everything we need. But what you lack in experience, you make up for with a desire to learn. You are comfortable taking specs and: defining requirements, setting priorities, and effectively self-directing.
• Ambitious & effective: You must be, as they say, “cracked”. We are a team of ambitious builders who are out to win against our competitors. We want to make a big dent in the universe. And to do that, we need to sprint to capture the market before us.
• Ownership mentality: You want to feel a sense of ownership for your work. And you want to have a meaningful chunk of equity — because you know that you can make an outsized contribution towards increasing the value of that equity.

Anti-personas - Who is NOT a good fit?

• Relaxed & laid-back: There are plenty of super talented, brilliant engineers who want to clock in and out, working 9-5. Their job is just a paycheck. They are happy to operate on everyone else’s sleepy, slow timelines. These people are not a fit for our team. We demand hunger and ambition to win. This requires pushing the pace.

Join Us!

Neon is building the automation platform for healthcare.

We're tackling this $1,500,000,000 of administrative bloat.

We're backed by top Silicon Valley investors.

We're profitable and growing fast with 7+ figure customer contracts.

Apply today to join a rocket ship that is bringing SOTA AI systems to healthcare.