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title: 'Data Engineer at Joyful Health'
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# Data Engineer at Joyful Health

- **Company:** Joyful Health
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/joyfulhealth/cfb4de9b-e768-4a2a-be39-fc78523917d2

## Job description

Building the financial operating system for healthcare, and bringing the joy back to healthcare by fixing the financial chaos behind it.

The healthcare payment system is a complex and inefficient maze - healthcare practices leave $125 billion in revenue uncollected each year, lost in the chaos of fragmented financial data, manual workflows, and opaque payer systems. This financial uncertainty leaves practices struggling to stay afloat, while valuable revenue slips through the cracks.

Joyful Health is building the AI-powered financial operating system for healthcare practices. Our mission is to bring the joy back to running a private practice by simplifying financial operations so providers can focus on patient care. We spent 10 months working as fractional CFOs for a dozen practices, doing this work side by side with providers as we developed our product.

We just announced our $22M Series A led by CRV and world-class investors including the founders of MongoDB & KAYAK.

This role is full-time. We’re looking for someone NYC-based who is open to coming into the office 3 days a week.

The base pay range for this role is $150,000–$275,000 per year.

## WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF…

- You’re passionate about Joyful Health’s mission – you want to solve real, pressing problems for providers and put them in control of their businesses. You naturally empathize with users and enjoy designing solutions with their needs in mind.
- You’re excited to shape the future of our engineering team and are excited to lead by example – as an early team member, you’ll have the chance to influence everything from our technical roadmap to our company culture. You have a radical sense of ownership with the ability and desire to own technical roadmaps and refine ambiguous problems. You also have a low ego, growth mindset, and desire to see the product and team scale with your impact.
- You have a love for your craft and strong technical execution - you view coding as a craft, not just a task, and you’re excited about using technology to create meaningful impact. Your technical skills go beyond coding—you care about building a product that works at scale, with the user at the forefront. We care more about your drive, hustle, and passion than a college degree from a shiny institution or experience at name-brand companies.
- You have 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on building data pipelines and integrations.
- Experience working with healthcare data or solving interoperability challenges is a plus.
- Proficiency in:
- Python and database systems, with familiarity in performance and optimization for scale
- Experience in distributed systems coordination and AI pipelines
- Familiarity with big data technologies and comfortable working with massive datasets
- CI/CD workflows such as Github actions

## WORKING AT JOYFUL

At Joyful Health, we're on a mission to fix one of the most broken systems in healthcare.

Learn more about our culture and how we do work at Joyful here https://joyful-health.notion.site/Public-How-We-Work-Guide-2c30f4731c828043baebd76d6d3657bb?source=copy_link!

Joining us means having the opportunity to make a direct, meaningful impact on the lives of clinicians and the financial health of their practices. Here's what you can expect from working with us:

🚀 Meaningful Impact You'll be tackling one of the most complex challenges in healthcare—helping practices thrive in a chaotic financial landscape. Your work will directly contribute to solving one of the most hair on fire problems for providers, ensuring that they can focus on what they do best: caring for patients.

🔑 Autonomy & Ownership As an early team member, you'll have significant autonomy and the chance to shape our company from the ground up. You'll have ownership over your work and the freedom to challenge the status quo in an environment that values initiative and creativity.

📈 Growth & Learning We're a small, ambitious team with big goals, which means you'll be constantly learning and growing. You'll take on new challenges, expand your skill set, and have direct access to experienced founders and advisors who are invested in your development. We also offer stipends for professional development courses & books (that we often will partake in together!) so we can all continuously grow.

💰 Competitive Compensation & Equity We believe that our team is our most valuable asset. We offer competitive compensation packages, strong equity, and the opportunity to share in the success of Joyful Health. We want you to feel supported, both financially and professionally, as we grow together.

❤️ Be Your Best Self We provide the benefits you need to stay happy and healthy, including comprehensive healthcare benefits, unlimited PTO (with a minimum of 10 days off a year), and flexibility so you can take care of yourself. We also organize regular team off-sites and events to ensure that even as we tackle big problems we enjoy the journey.

If you're passionate about empowering practices and excited to tackle one of the most important (& challenging!) problems in healthcare, we'd love to meet you.

Please apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. Nobody checks every box every time and we'd love to talk to you about how and why you can see yourself growing into this role. We're also very open to candidates with non-traditional experience.

## About Joyful Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Joyful Health builds an AI-powered financial operating system that helps healthcare practices recover lost revenue and simplify financial operations.
- **Entity Type**: Private (recently closed a funding round led by notable angel investors)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Eliana Berger (Co-Founder & CEO) and Warren Green (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) / HealthTech
- **Target customers**: B2B – small private practices, digital health organizations, hospitals, health systems, and practice management groups
- **Mission**: “Bring the joy back to running a private practice by simplifying financial operations, so providers can focus on patient care.”

## Products & Services
- **Joyful Health Platform (SaaS)**: An AI-powered financial operating system that unifies claims, remittances, payer contracts, payments, and EHR data to provide revenue clarity and track missing revenue.
- **Revenue Recovery Services**: Expert-led denial management, aged A/R recovery, and EOB reconciliation. The team handles the most complex unpaid claims from root cause to resolution, using a combination of AI technology and experienced billers.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Headcount grew **+700% year-over-year** (19 employees as of mid-2026); 16 active job postings
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Funding round led by “world-class investors and angels including the founders of MongoDB & KAYAK” (specific amount not disclosed). *Note: Third-party validation of funding details is limited; candidates are advised to verify independently.*
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid team expansion, active hiring across engineering, operations, and sales; claims to recover 5–10x their fees in revenue for clients.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI + Human-in-the-Loop**: Combines machine learning for claim timeline reconstruction with seasoned billers who handle complex denials and payer follow-ups.
- **Focus on the Hardest Claims**: Targets denied, rejected, and aged A/R that most practices write off, claiming 95%+ recovery rates.
- **Operator‑Grounded Product**: Founders spent 10 months as fractional CFOs for a dozen practices before building the software, ensuring deep domain understanding.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building out the AI-powered financial OS (platform expansion, new features like contract analysis and payment reconciliation).
- Scale revenue recovery services to larger health systems and digital health organizations.
- Grow the team aggressively, especially in engineering (AI/ML, data, infrastructure), RCM operations, and go-to-market roles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High-trust, high-autonomy environment with values like “No Ceilings,” “Run Through Walls,” and “Joy in the Journey.” The team is scrappy, gritty, and takes pride in tackling unglamorous work.
- **Work Policy**: NYC in-office presence strongly emphasized (“We love our NYC office!!!”). Remote work not highlighted; most roles appear to be on-site in New York.
- **Engineering Culture**: Small, founder-led engineering team working on AI, data pipelines, and product engineering. Emphasizes ownership, bias toward action, and resourcefulness.
- **Early‑Stage Intensity**: High impact and autonomy, but expect ambiguity, frequent change, and evolving processes. Suited for candidates who thrive in fast-paced building environments.

## Sources
1. [joyfulhealth.com/careers](https://www.joyfulhealth.com/careers)
2. [joyfulhealth.com](https://www.joyfulhealth.com/)
3. [joyfulhealth.com/who-we-are](https://www.joyfulhealth.com/who-we-are)
4. [linkedin.com/company/joyful-health-io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/joyful-health-io)
5. [builtin.com/company/joyful-health/faq/workplace-perception](https://builtin.com/company/joyful-health/faq/workplace-perception)

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