Founding Engineer - Pom Health

ABOUT US Pom Health is your doctor-prescribed food companion. We partner with PCPs, cardiologists, endocrinologists, and nephrologists to bring nutrition care in-house. The country needs nutrition care now more than ever. Heart disease is still the number one cause of death, yet most cardiologists have no in-house nutrition support. Tens of millions of Americans are on GLP-1s, but the lifestyle support they need to sustain results barely exists. The demand is obvious. The infrastructure isn’t there. We’re building it. We partner with doctors’ offices across America — trusted clinicians in their communities — and give them the tools to do what they’ve always wanted to do: help their patients eat better and live healthier. We also generate revenue for the practice — a new service line that helps the doctors we work with run a sustainable business while delivering better care. Our care model pairs registered dietitian counseling with AI-powered conversational support that’s there with patients in the moments that matter — whether it’s 2am and they’re craving sweets or they’re standing in line at Chick-fil-A trying to figure out what to order. We help patients turn their doctor’s guidance into a daily practice that fits their actual life. We’re a team of 5 with patients and customers who love us, growing revenue, and clinically significant outcomes. Now we’re hiring the people who will build and scale it. Join us! WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE DIFFERENT We need a second founding engineer to build across every surface of our product — from what patients interact with daily, to what sits alongside a doctor’s EHR, to what helps a practice admin manage their panel. There has never been a more exciting time to build at the intersection of healthcare and food. We can understand a patient’s preferences, dietary restrictions, and cultural background with real precision — then connect them to the right recipe video, the right meal prep technique, the right ingredient swap, at exactly the right moment. Imagine a patient who loves Dominican cooking and just got diagnosed with pre-diabetes. We can surface a TikTok showing how to make a lower-glycemic mangú, recommend it at breakfast time, and follow up with their dietitian if they tried it. The tools to make nutrition care personal, joyful, and effective are finally here. We’re building them. This isn’t “join a startup and build one feature.” The surface area is enormous and the stakeholders are wildly different: For patients: You’re building the tools that keep someone engaged in changing how they eat — personalized feedback, intelligent nudges, AI-driven check-ins. A patient texts at 10pm saying they’re craving something sweet after a stressful day. The system needs to know their triggers, what’s worked before, what’s in their fridge, and their communication style. We’re connecting what happens during live visits to asynchronous care and the surrounding care intelligence.. That’s one of many problems in this category. For clinicians: You’re building tools that sit alongside existing EHRs — a copilot for our RDs during visits, data-pulling workflows that grab patient context from any EHR system, surfaces that make our dietitians dramatically more effective without changing how their clinic operates. You’ll flex between building consumer-grade behavior change products and building B2B tools that live inside legacy healthcare infrastructure. You need to be excited about what’s possible with AI while staying grounded in the realities of HIPAA and systems that were built in the 90s. YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF - You have 3-5+ years of engineering experience in high growth healthcare or wellness companies; special consideration for those hungry new grads who want to jump in - You’ve built production systems before and are comfortable owning technical decisions end-to-end - You’re energized by talking directly to users (RDs, doctors, patients, practice admins) to understand what they actually need. No PMs transl