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About Day One Partners
Day One Partners is a search firm that partners with venture capital firms to help build high-growth startups. We lead confidential searches for leadership and critical roles across a range of company stages, industries, and functions
About the Role
Join an early-stage healthtech company building AI-powered automation for complex healthcare operations. As one of the next foundational engineering hires, you'll help design and scale a platform that combines infrastructure, browser agents, and voice automation to solve high-impact challenges for healthcare providers.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and build core platform infrastructure, data systems, and backend services
- Develop AI-driven browser and voice agent workflows used in production environments
- Partner directly with customers to rapidly iterate on deployed solutions and integrations
- Design evaluation frameworks and tooling to improve agent performance and reliability
- Help shape engineering culture, technical standards, and long-term platform strategy
What You’ll Bring:
- 4–8 years of software engineering experience building production systems
- Strong systems design, backend, infrastructure, or data engineering expertise
- Experience owning critical products, integrations, or large-scale technical initiatives
- Interest in AI systems, automation, and emerging agent technologies
- Collaborative, low-ego approach and enthusiasm for working closely with a small team
Why You’ll Love This Role:
- Foundational ownership at a fast-growing startup with active revenue and enterprise momentum
- Opportunity to work across infrastructure, AI agents, and customer-facing products from day one
- Direct collaboration with experienced founders and a highly technical engineering team
- Competitive compensation plus meaningful Seed-stage equity opportunity
- Clear path to leadership as the engineering organization scales
Salary : $175,000 - $250,000