Human Practice is an investor-backed digital health startup in Chicago. We work with the most prestigious hospital systems in the country. Our mission is to connect patients needing more specialized care to these hospital systems’ world-class physicians.

The existing referral process puts a great burden on patients, who may already be experiencing extreme stress due to their diagnosis. The process also leaves physicians too disconnected, making it difficult to collaborate effectively on their patients’ care.

Our solution orchestrates a connected experience for patients/physicians/staff, broadens physicians’ existing professional networks, while requiring only the minimum necessary interaction to reduce friction. We believe our execution on this unique approach explains our success to date in the market.

Over the next eight to twelve months, we are hiring several developers as part of a larger effort to build out our product team.

We’re hiring a mix of senior and junior developers:

Successful junior candidates will be the brightest in their peer group, and able to show significant investment of time beyond academic training learning to code.

Ideal senior candidates will bring superior, hands-on technical leadership (code craft, technology use, team process). This is an opportunity to build powerful software, mentoring others along the way.

We are a small, flat company, allergic to titles and hierarchy, founded by a software developer and a physician. Moses has been writing code since he was nine, has a physics PhD, and got to pair program with Kent Beck after giving a talk on Mob Programming at XP Universe 2001 (random, but we hope evocative facts). Sehjin is a fellowship-trained, double-board-certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon and otolaryngologist, who also studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and Parsons School of Design.

Job description:

Here’s how we imagine your first year with us.

You’ll spend the first month getting up to speed on our platform by collaborating with your teammates: pair programming to commit a production feature in your first week and participating in user interviews to understand physicians’ needs.

You will work full stack on both our Ember/Cordova app and Rails/Java backend APIs and services, iterating on new features until we demonstrate they have a meaningful impact on users. That’s our definition of “done,” and is especially important in healthcare, where it’s tricky to achieve the right combination of simplicity and improvement.

Projects will include cryptography, custom Cordova plugins, scaling, dev ops, new APIs, custom Ember infrastructure, feature sets to support new user roles, etc. We are happy to discuss details during your interview.

You will also contribute regularly to company strategic discussions, speaking your mind and standing up for what you care about to push us toward the light, not just through the product but across the board.

We’ll look back on our first year knowing we did outstanding work together that made healthcare more effective, better coordinated, and more human for patients, physicians and healthcare organizations.

Details:

We offer competitive salary and benefits, including medical/dental/vision coverage and a retirement plan.