Kivo Health
AI-powered virtual care for chronic lung disease
Full-Stack AI Engineer
About the role
Help real people breathe better. Build cutting edge AI apps. Make a lasting impact.
That's what we do at Kivo Health.
Join our fast-growing AI healthcare startup that’s hit an inflection point – more demand than we can comfortably handle, including from major national payers and health systems like Stanford and UCLA.
We're looking for a full-stack engineer to help us build AI-powered mobile and web apps for our tech-enabled healthcare clinic.
Our ideal candidate has experience working with technologies like:
- Python/Django/DRF
- Typescript
- React/React Native
- Docker
- Google Cloud DevOps
- AI / LLM apps
What we're looking for:
- You're a generalist: comfortable with frontend, backend, anything it takes to deliver results.
- You thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven startup culture.
- You're excited to work on web tech and LLM apps.
- You're excited to work directly with the company founders.
- You have a strong desire to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
We're not a good fit if:
- You aren’t in Seattle (or willing to relocate here)
- You only want to specialize in a part of the tech stack (e.g. frontend).
- You prefer working at large companies.
Benefits:
- Hybrid work: 2-3 days in office per week
- Equity, healthcare and 401k
- Unlimited PTO
Individual candidates only please - no recruiters or dev shops, thanks!
About the interview
- 45 minute initial chat. Includes technical question.
- 2-3 technical interviews, 60 minutes each.
- In-person interview with our CTO (in Seattle)
- 45 minute non-technical interview with our CEO
- Offer, including salary, equity and benefits
- Join as full employee
Interviews are on Zoom.
About Kivo Health
Kivo Health provides telehealth lung therapy to people with chronic lung disease.
Lung therapy is similar to physical therapy. It includes guided exercise and live education. Our 9-week, insurance-billed program connects patients to our therapists in real-time. We help patients feel better, get back to everyday activities and stay out of the hospital. Because we reduce hospitalizations, we save payers an average of $8k per patient.
We're working directly with UCLA, Stanford and other major health systems across 9 states. We're making money, growing quickly and are looking for engineers to scale our service to all 50 states.
Some more about us:
- We're working directly with UCLA, Stanford and other health systems in 9 states.
- We're well capitalized and have advisors from YCombinator, Cricket, Virta, and the COPD Foundation.
- Vaughn (CTO) is a serial YC tech founder with an exit to Trulia, and Victor (CEO) is a Stanford-trained physician.
- Our patients love us: "Kivo is a miracle to me... I could never have attended any other way."
If you want to work at a high-growth startup, and have a direct impact on patients' lives, come work with us! We're growing quickly, so this is a great opportunity to join early. Some similar companies that became unicorns are Virta, Somatus, Cricket, and Hinge Health (IPO May 2025).
For more information, see https://kivohealth.com, or check out our public YC launch: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Hxq-kivo-health-telehealth-lung-rehab
