Founding Engineer (NYC) - Pom Health
Meet Pom
Pom Health is redesigning the healthcare system around the joys of food. We empower every clinician to prescribe patients how to eat and live as a part of the standard of care.
130 million Americans are battling chronic diseases directly linked to what they eat. Heart disease, diabetes, obesity, the list goes on. These conditions represent 85% of our $4 trillion healthcare spend, yet doctors have no systematic way to prescribe nutrition — the root cause intervention.
We’re fixing that at Pom. We partner directly with doctors to prescribe flavorful, personalized, and culturally-competent nutrition care — delivered by our high-quality dietitians and AI-powered coaching — all embedded in existing clinical care pathways. We make food a critical part of the care plan, not a side note.
We're a multi-disciplinary, mission-obsessed team clinicians, technologists, and operators who is trying to make a difference in one of the most important problems in our country (currently 15 people including clinicians). We’re grateful to be backed with over $5.3M in funding from world-class investors like NextView Ventures, Female Founders Fund, Flare Capital, Pear Ventures, and the co-founder of Instacart. We’re live with our first practice customers and have served hundreds of happy patients to date.
If you believe in our mission and want to impact millions of people in need with the technology you build, we’d love to meet!
About the Role
As our Founding Engineer, you’ll be a co-architect in everything we’re building at Pom. This isn’t just an engineering role — you’ll have real ownership in shaping the foundation at Pom: product to platform to team culture.
You’ll work with closely with the founders and the rest of the early team to:
🏗️ Help build our core product. With help, you’ll build the engine and platform that combines high-touch nutrition therapy with AI coaching and delightful food content, guiding patients through bite-sized changes that make an impact.
🔌 Integrate seamlessly into clinical pathways. You’ll work on integrations that makes Pom accessible at the point-of-care at practices and hospitals.
🚀 Prepare to scale reliably. Make the right foundational technical decisions that allow us to both experiment nimbly and scale.
👥 Set the tone for our engineering team. Together, we’ll build a technology org that’s high-caliber, humble, team-oriented, and mission-driven.
We get excited if you:
Have 4+ years of backend-heavy or fullstack software engineering experience
We’re open to varying YoE/seniority - we have work for all skills and sizes!
Are excited to help scale an early-stage startup, including building a high-performance, patient-centric, and team-first culture
Have built and launched early-stage products — ideally in a startup environment
Are a self-starter — excited to get in the weeds and proactively take on important problems for the business
Care deeply about user experience and product quality (i.e. open to doing user interviews, helping define requirements)
Are passionate about increasing the role of food and nutrition in the US healthcare system
Are based in the NYC metro area (Tuesdays and Thursdays in-office required)
Bonus points for experience in building AI/ML or personalization systems, care delivery platforms, or EHR integrations
Compensation
Everyone who joins our early team is critical to our success. We reflect this through meaningful equity ownership and competitive salary (pegged to seniority level).
We also offer attractive benefits including fully-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Please see below for more details on working at Pom!
Working @ Pom
👥 From Misha and Wilfred
We recognize that Pom is nothing more than its team. Together with you, we want to build an organization filled with highly talented, passionate, and empathetic individuals who are fully committed to changing healthcare in our country. We are excited to be inspired and challenged by every addition to the team ❤️
As for a little about us, we first met remotely in April 2020 at Off Their Plate – working together to serve food insecurity with hundreds of thousands of meals purchased from struggling restaurants in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. We then went on to work closely together at Ribbon Health (raised $55M from a16z, General Catalyst, and Rock Health), launching new initiatives across Partnerships and Product. As two midwesterners (Michigan and Ohio) with immigrant parents (Iranian and Chinese), we were raised remembering the importance of neighborly community, preservation of culture, and the kindness of an abundant table.
Our Values
Treat every patient like someone you care deeply about
Insert joy in everything you do
Know the why, the how, and the when
Come as you are, build as a team
Stay curious, experiment often, and learn from feedback
🚑 Health Insurance
We offer excellent medical, vision, and dental insurance through Aetna, fully covered.
🏖️ PTO
Recharging our battery looks different for everyone! In addition to company holidays, we offer unlimited PTO with a minimum requirement to take off at least 10 business days per year.
❤️ Other Benefits
🥼 One Medical membership
🚲 Citi Bike membership
🍽️ In-person team lunches 2x per week
🍅 $100 monthly healthy grocery stipend
A Final Thought
If you’ve ever looked at your engineering skills and thought: “I could be using these to build something that truly helps people...”
This is your chance!
Let’s build a healthier country — one meal, one line of code, one patient at a time.