swaraj

Sempre Health | Software Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite eventually (remote for now)

Sempre Health uses dynamic pricing + SMS to reduce patients’ out-of-pocket spend on drugs. 1 in 3 patients skips taking their meds because they are too expensive. We’re on a mission to fix that. Patients receive texts like, “If you pick up your rx by Sunday you’ll pay $20. If you wait until next week, this goes up to $30.” Then, wherever they fill, Sempre’s integrations with the pharmacy switch, ensure they get the right price.

The product we’re building helps patients afford medications they need. As our fourth engineer, you will have both autonomy and responsibility. You will decide and own the most important projects. You will design new products and features from scratch, get team buy-in, implement, and deploy. You will work cross functionally with patient operations, data science, and business development teams to deliver and see the impact of your high impact products. We won’t add significant process, checks, and balances to your flow - we trust each other to produce high quality work.

Two roles

- Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/semprehealth/jobs/4013252004

- Senior Software Engineer: https://boards.greenhouse.io/semprehealth/jobs/4013266004

we have fallen back to discord for work today. Obviously the terms/security controls are not a great permanent solution, but it's a great fallback for real-time chat across all devices

Fortunately (or non-optimally), our DNS TTLs were 300s (Route 53 default) so our sites were not fully accessible off Zeit for ~5 mins. This wasn't too bad given that our sites were completely inaccessible from Netlify.

One day when we're bigger, we'll extend those TTLs

We're definitely staying on Netlify after this outage is done. We pay for some of their enterprise features, e.g. audit logs. We just need our sites up right now and zeit was a fast, temporary alternative

This affects us too. We were able to migrate to zeit now in ~30 mins.

Sempre Health | San Francisco | Full-stack engineer | http://angel.co/sempre-health/jobs

We use dynamic pricing + SMS to reduce patients' out-of-pocket spend on drugs. 1 in 3 patients skips taking their meds because they are too expensive. We're on a mission to fix that. Patients receive texts like, "If you pick up your rx by Sunday you'll pay $20. If you wait until next week, this goes up to $30." Then, wherever they fill, Sempre's integrations with the pharmacy switch, ensure they get the right price.

Our team of 7 just closed an $8M Series A to rapidly expand to cover more patients and medications. We’re scaling product & tech to thousands of patients in the next quarter.

- Stack: Python, React, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker

- Interview process: 30 min intro call => 1 hr tech phone screen => 4 hr on-site => offer

- Job req: https://angel.co/sempre-health/jobs/130959-software-engineer

To apply, email me directly at swaraj@semprehealth.com

~ Swaraj Cofounder & CTO

Sempre Health | Senior Software Engineer | SF | Onsite | https://www.semprehealth.com/

To apply, email swaraj@semprehealth.com

What is Sempre: Sempre Health is bringing dynamic pricing to healthcare, beginning with medications. 1 in 3 patients skips taking their meds because they are too expensive. We're on a mission to fix that. Our product is live with patients, and we already have revenue from two Fortune 500 companies. Our team of 5 is closing our Series A to rapidly expand to cover more patients and medications.

Why work here?: Work on something that matters - the product we’re building helps patients afford medications they need. As our sixth teammate and third engineer you’ll have both autonomy and responsibility. You will decide and own the most important projects.

What you’ll work on: you’ll work all across the stack from backend python microservices to React web apps. Projects include:

• Alex: our homegrown CMS we use to decide what we communicate to patients, how to handle inbound communication, and trigger events

• Pricing and pharmacy integrations: iterate on our incentive-based pricing algorithm to calculate the optimal price for each patient and integrate with the US pharmacy switch to deliver that price to any pharmacy in the country

• Admin tool: our web app for patient management allows us to track program progress and prioritize interventions for the most at-risk patients

• Security: we are HIPAA compliant, and treat security as a first-class feature in all our products

Full job req: https://angel.co/sempre-health/jobs/130959-software-engineer

Does this use schema.org / og meta tags or are you trying to infer object types yourself

Sempre Health | Backend/Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE Full-time | https://www.semprehealth.com/ + https://angel.co/sempre-health

Referral bonus: $10k cash for referral to candidate who ends up joining Sempre

At Sempre, we're building individualized healthcare pricing, helping patients save thousands of dollars every year on medications. We raised $2.5M from Social Capital last summer, have revenue from 2 fortune 100 customers, and and are focusing now on scaling. We currently work with hundreds of patients, but will soon be launching programs that impact tens of thousands of lives.

About the role: If you come on board, you'll work on projects including our patient engagement services responsible for handling inbound communications and triggering events [python], backend APIs to integrate with the nationwide pharmacy network and calculate the optimal price for each patient [python], and our internal patient management tools [React]. These products drive our ability to help patients afford medications they need.

About the founders: My name is Swaraj, and I'm the co-founder & CTO of Sempre Health. Previously, I was engineering director at MindMeld (NLP/search, acquired by Cisco), and at Zynga, launched FarmVille 2 (most popular game on FB for > 6 mo). My co-founder & CEO was the founding data scientist at Propeller Health, after reporting directly to DaVita's CFO (Fortune 500, largest kidney care company in US).

To apply: email me directly at swaraj[at]semprehealth.com

Full job req: https://angel.co/sempre-health/jobs/130959-software-engineer

Thanks,

Swaraj

Free open source ops tools + enterprise support is a pretty solid business. For recent-ish DB companies see Mongo, Elastic, Redis, MemSQL, etc.

I'm excited to track this project!

Completely agree with you. Seems more like a personality mismatch, than a lack of technical skills.

Seems like both parties were at fault here:

- The interviewee for being a little brusque about his answers, and despite understanding the _intention_ of the question, giving potentially off-putting, difficult answers to check over a quick phone call.

- Google recruiter for seeming to ask questions she/he was a little out of her/his league to ask. If you don't understand the nuances in and around the questions you're asking, you are not qualified to evaluate someone's responses.

Wouldn't worry about any one particular interview, there are too many great opportunities in tech right now to let any one bad interview let you down!

This is incredible!!

Sempre Health | San Francisco (SOMA) | Lead Backend Engineers | Full Time | https://semprehealth.com/

Sempre Health is changing how Americans pay for healthcare. My co-founder & I are both Berkeley grads and just closed a $2.5M seed round. We are looking for senior backend engineers as our first technical hires. The digital health space is blowing up, and this is an opportunity to use technology for good as well as get in on the ground floor.

1 in 3 patients skips care because it's too expensive. These patients go on to be less healthy & more costly to the health system overall. Sempre Health is bringing behavior-based pricing to healthcare. Patients receive texts like, "If you fill your Lipitor rx today, you'll pay $5. If you wait till next week, you'll pay your normal $15"

We parse millions of prescription records to identify unique patient behaviors. We use this data to predict & seamlessly deliver the right price for the right patient to every pharmacy in the country.

Stack: python, node, react, d3, mysql, redis, docker

Interview process: 30 min intro call => 1 hr tech screen (coding + architecture questions) => 2 hr on-site

Job req: https://angel.co/sempre-health/jobs/130959-software-engineer

To apply, email me at swaraj@semprehealth.com

Sempre Health (semprehealth.com) | San Francisco, CA | Backend Software Engineer | Full-time, on-site

Company Description: Sempre Health is changing how Americans pay for healthcare. We are looking for a senior backend engineer as our first technical hire. You are excited to use technology for good, while building a digital health company from the ground up.

1 in 3 patients skips care because it’s too expensive. These patients go on to be less healthy & more costly to the health system overall. Sempre Health is bringing behavior-based pricing to healthcare. Patients receive texts like, "If you fill your Lipitor rx today, you’ll pay $5. If you wait till next week, you’ll pay your normal $15"

We parse millions of prescription records to identify unique patient behaviors. We use this data to predict & seamlessly deliver the right price for the right patient to every pharmacy in the country.

Interview Process: 30 min intro call => 1hr tech screen => 2hr on-site w/ founders => reference checks => offer

Full job req: https://angel.co/sempre-health/jobs/130959-software-engineer

To apply: Email resume / LinkedIn / AL profile to swaraj@semprehealth.com

semprehealth.com | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite

Position: Backend Software Engineer

Sempre Health is bringing behavior-based, dynamic pricing to healthcare, beginning with medications.

Similar to a "good driver discount", insured patients can drive their own copays down with healthy behaviors. Through integrations with pharmacy systems and claims adjudicators, price is seamlessly delivered to patients at the point of fill. This increases access to care for the 1 in 3 patients who underutilize due to cost barriers and drive a disproportionate amount of spend.

We believe that bright people should work on the most important problems. Get in touch if you are excited to use technology for good, while building a digital health startup from the ground up.

Job req on AL: https://angel.co/sempre-health/jobs/130959- software-engineer

Stack: node.js, python, react, sql, redis

To learn more, email me at swaraj@semprehealth.com

Never applied to a job through HN, but about to post a req for my company. I'm definitely going to add a little blurb about the interview process in my post here. What else do people find useful in posts like this?

Expect Labs - San Francisco, CA - Full Time Software Engineer - Onsite

I am an engineer at Expect Labs, where we're building a platform for adding voice interfaces to any app, device, or website; think of it as the ability to add Siri-like functionality to any domain. We're working on tough machine learning, natural language processing, and information retrieval problems. We are looking for both backend or machine learning engineers (python, Elasticsearch, node) to power our API and frontend engineers to help us build real applications (Angular, Coffeescript, iOS, & Android) powered by our API.

Check out our jobs page here: https://expectlabs.com/jobs

Please reach out if you have any questions: swaraj@expectlabs.com

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Crazy mic feedback :(

Using tig all dayy

Great tips, I'm a full stack dev at a big company and never even thought about giving freelance work a try until this

didn't work for 2 beers i tried: http://imgur.com/GTMoG

Sparrow is the shit

couldn't install: http://screencast.com/t/L9SQeTqQT

Try writing python with Pyscripter and see if you can't code something useful in an hr

Cool article, I got asked this question during my FB interviews and had luckily seen something exactly like this before.

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That's a good point, but as I was looking over some of the chapters of the highest-rated books, they seemed to be teaching mostly high-level, abstract concepts and ideas without discussing specific technologies or tools. I don't want to come off as naive for dismissing books like these, but a significant part of my CS education in college has used some of these textbooks and I wanted to learn more about specific technologies and services.

I feel most inadequate reading about how start-ups are using actual new technologies like AWS or Couchbase. It seems as if tech talks often provide a good overview of the applications and constraints of new technologies. So given the fact that I do not really have any idea what specific projects I will be working on in the future, I feel that having at least a general overview of what tools are available will prove to be useful.