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Its platform combines software, human expertise and AI to help care teams coordinate everything from medical workflows to insurance, benefits and wider social-care needs.\nThe company is post-Series A, growing quickly and tackling a problem where software quality, operational correctness and trust have a direct impact on people’s lives.\nThe Opportunity\nThis is a founding-engineer role with significant influence over the product, architecture and engineering culture. 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