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Marcus's autoimmune condition worsened while battling insurance denials.\nOver 50% of critical prescriptions are abandoned due to:\nCost barriers: Patients with high copays are 5x more likely to abandon treatment\n\nInsurance maze: Complex prior authorizations block access\n\nLogistical challenges: Coordinating medical visits for treatments\n\nOur solution: Neon's technology eliminates these obstacles by automating patient access workflows for pharma companies: -automating authorizations, streamlining benefits verification, and unlocking financial assistance.\nJoin our mission: We want to live in a world where every patient can navigate the healthcare system with ease, especially when it matters most. Help us ensure that access to medicine is determined by clinical need-not bureaucracy or financial constraint. When Neon succeeds, patients access life-saving treatments without bankrupting their families, while we build an AI automation powerhouse serving healthcare's biggest enterprises.\nWhy join Neon?\nFrighteningly ambitious: We’re not just idealists. We’re seasoned builders. On a mission to build a $200B+ company-on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow-serving the largest healthcare enterprises.\n\nExperienced founding team: Built by exited founders, YC & MIT alum, ex-Tesla, ex-Google engineers.\n\nHypergrowth with stability: We went from initial idea to 7+ figure customer contracts in just 4 months-in an industry where sales cycles typically take 12-18 months. We are profitable and relentlessly focused on execution.\n\nPowerhouse backing: We’re funded by elite Silicon Valley VCs who've backed unicorns like DoorDash, Lyft, and Mammoth Biosciences. And strategic healthcare investors with deep industry connections.\n\nOutsized impact & opportunity: Work at the intersection of agentic AI, healthcare transformation, and life-changing patient outcomes.\n\nCareer acceleration: Join early and grow rapidly with us as we scale toward category dominance in healthcare automation.\n\nWhat’s unique about working here?\nMission-driven capitalists\nWe’re a rare blend of mission-driven capitalists. We are on the path towards building a $200B+ business while dramatically improving the healthcare system-and patients’ lives.\nWorking like athletes\nLike athletes, we are constantly honing our craft to produce our best possible work.\nWe work with intention and humility. We support and challenge each other to be our best selves.\nAnd as a team, we achieve goals together that would be impossible alone.\nSkills Required\nTechnical skills:\nProficiency with Node, Typescript, and Python.\n\nGood understanding of system design concepts - distributed systems, reliability/performance tradeoffs\n\nExperience in API design, implementation, and documentation\n\nExperience using AI coding tools (Cursor, Github Copilot, Claude, etc)\n\nExperience working with CI/CD systems and good DevOps skills a nice to have\n\nExcellent documentation and testing habits\n\nProficiency with version control (Git)\n\nSoft skills:\n10x mindset - you’ll be among the first engineering hires!\n\nYou are a fun human!\n\nGood time management and planning skills\n\nExperience\n4-7 years of experience (or equivalent) as a software engineer.\nWe’re leveling this role to Pave’s “P4” level:\nLeads project teams, provides direction, and keeps stakeholders informed. Determines key milestones and provides updates and check-ins to relevant teams and partners.\nYou are able to work with the rest of the team to:\nDefine priorities\n\nSuggest good solutions\n\nExcel at implementation\n\nYou pick up concepts quickly, pattern match on past problems.\n\nYou are obsessed with speed and quality, and help embed that quality into the rest of the team.\n\nYou are self-directed, and do not need help organizing / prioritizing your time.\n\nSpecific project experience\nNice if you have worked on distributed architectures in the past, but not a strict requirement.\n\nYou must have experience working on projects touching many parts of a large codebase.\n\nPersonas - Who should apply?\nProject lead at a scaling startup: You’ve worked at a scaling startup, leading projects that required you to: define requirements, effectively self-direct and set priorities, and touch many areas of a large code base.\n\nGeneralist: You don’t need to be an expert in any one area of software engineering, but you do need to have experience across many areas of eng. You must know enough to be dangerous in many areas. e.g.) self-deployed K8s clusters, micro-services, etc.\n\nSelf-directed: You’ve led engineering projects from start to finish. This could be a large open source project, or building a feature in a past role.\n\nAmbitious & effective: 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.\n\nOwnership 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.\n\nJoin Us!\nNeon is building the automation platform for healthcare enterprises.\nWe're backed by top Silicon Valley investors.\nWe're profitable and growing fast with 7+ figure customer contracts.\nApply today to join a rocket ship that is bringing state-of-the-art AI systems to pharma, and bringing life-saving medications to the patients who need them.\nPlease note: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. 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