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Founding Engineer (Part Time)
Join a small team building patient education software for cataract surgery, and help shape where we take the product next.
- ~20 hrs/week
- Remote
- Equity
- Healthcare SaaS
01 / Context
The company
ClearChoice Cataract Counselor is an early-stage healthcare company building a patient education platform for cataract surgery.
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed elective surgery in the US, with an estimated 3.5 to 4 million procedures each year. We help patients and surgeons prepare before the appointment through personalized, AI-assisted education. That saves surgeon time and raises conversion to advanced intraocular lenses.
We spent 10 months in beta with 6 surgeons. More than 500 patients have completed the premium education experience. We are onboarding new practices, integrating with additional electronic medical record platforms, and expanding the product.
02 / The offer
The role
You will work directly with the co-founders on the core platform.
The role starts at about 20 hours per week, with a path to full-time and salary as the company grows. Exact terms will be discussed with the right candidate.
ClearChoice has been bootstrapped to this point with no immediately plans to take on funding. We have a clear short-term path to profitability after covering founding team salaries.
- Commitment
- About 20 hours per week, with a path to full-time
- Compensation
- Equity at first, vesting over time. Salary and full-time as revenue grows.
- Location
- Remote
- Industry
- Healthcare technology, SaaS, ophthalmology
03 / The work
What you will own
- Ship new product features from concept through production
- Build frontend and backend, including APIs and third-party integrations
- Shape application architecture, databases, and data structures
- Improve performance, reliability, and scalability
- Design clear experiences for patients, physicians, and practice staff
- Keep security and privacy practices appropriate for healthcare software
- Troubleshoot production issues and tighten the systems around them
- Set up practical development, testing, documentation, and deployment habits
- Help shape where we take the product next
04 / The fit
Who we are looking for
- Experience shipping modern web applications in production
- Comfort across frontend, backend, APIs, and relational databases
- A working grasp of authentication, authorization, and data security
- The judgment to know when something needs to be robust and when it should stay simple
- Ability to work independently and turn a fuzzy product idea into working software
- Interest in the user and the business, not only the code
- Comfort with changing priorities and making decisions without a complete brief
SaaS, healthcare technology, HIPAA-conscious development, cloud infrastructure, third-party integrations, or AI and LLM work is useful. None of it is required.
05 / Impact
Sight-restoring surgery, every month
Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and 90% of that burden is in the developing world.
For every subscribing ClearChoice surgeon, we fund one sight-restoring cataract surgery each month through our partnership with Daybreak Vision Project. The goal is 1,000 surgeries per month.
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