Senior Backend Engineer

Join the team making life-saving drugs accessible The crisis: Sarah delayed cancer treatment for weeks facing $30,000 monthly costs. Marcus's autoimmune condition worsened while battling insurance denials. Over 50% of critical prescriptions are abandoned due to: Cost barriers: Patients with high copays are 5x more likely to abandon treatment Insurance maze: Complex prior authorizations block access Logistical challenges: Coordinating medical visits for treatments Our solution: Neon's technology eliminates these obstacles by automating patient access workflows for pharma companies: —automating authorizations, streamlining benefits verification, and unlocking financial assistance. Join our mission: We want to live in a world where every patient can navigate the healthcare system with ease, especially when it matters most. Help us ensure that access to medicine is determined by clinical need—not bureaucracy or financial constraint. When Neon succeeds, patients access life-saving treatments without bankrupting their families, while we build an AI automation powerhouse serving healthcare's biggest enterprises. Why join Neon? Frighteningly ambitious: We’re not just idealists. We’re seasoned builders. On a mission to build a $200B+ company—on the scale of Palantir or ServiceNow—serving the largest healthcare enterprises. Experienced founding team: Built by exited founders, Y [... source excerpt omitted ...] many parts of a large codebase. Personas - Who should apply? Project lead at a scaling startup: You’ve worked at a scaling startup, leading projects that required you to: define requirements, effectively self-direct and set priorities, and touch many areas of a large code base. Generalist: You don’t need to be an expert in any one area of software engineering, but you do need to have experience across many areas of eng. You must know enough to be dangerous in many areas. e.g.) self-deployed K8s clusters, micro-services, etc. Self-directed: You’ve led engineering projects from start to finish. This could be a large open source project, or building a feature in a past role. Ambiti [... source excerpt omitted ...] y. Join Us! Neon is building the automation platform for healthcare enterprises. We're backed by top Silicon Valley investors. We're profitable and growing fast with 7+ figure customer contracts. Apply today to join a rocket ship that is bringing state-of-the-art AI systems to pharma, and bringing life-saving medications to the patients who need them. Please note: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.