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# Lead Engineer at Parsley Health

- **Company:** Parsley Health
- **Location:** New York New York, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/parsleyhealth/jobs/7823144003

## Job description

Lead Engineer

Parsley Health · Engineering · Remote US, with a strong preference for NYC metro · Full-time

## About Parsley Health

Parsley Health is rebuilding primary care around root-cause, whole-person medicine. Our members get board-certified clinicians, health coaches, advanced testing, and a care platform that connects the dots across all of it.

We are a mostly virtual medical practice with care available across the country, and we recently expanded in-network access nationwide. As we grow, our product and engineering teams are focused on building the systems, workflows, automation, and AI-enabled tools that help our clinical team scale without compromising quality of care.

## About the role

We are hiring a Lead Engineer to lead a small, high-leverage engineering team while staying deeply hands-on in the code.

This is a player-coach role, with dual focus on direct IC work and engineering management. You will spend roughly 60–70% of your time designing and shipping code; you will also manage one full-time engineer and help coordinate a small group of contractors.

The right person brings strong technical judgment, a high quality bar, comfort working across the stack, and enough product instinct to make smart tradeoffs in close partnership with Product, Clinical, Design, Data, and Security.

You will help turn business and clinical priorities into reliable, scalable software. You do not need to own product strategy end to end, but you should be able to understand user needs, ask good questions, challenge unclear requirements, and help the team move from idea to shipped solution quickly and responsibly.

This role reports to the CTO and is remote by default. Because most of our team is based on the East Coast, we strongly prefer candidates in the Eastern or Central time zones who are comfortable working an Eastern time schedule. Candidates in the New York City area are especially well positioned, as they will have opportunities to work periodically from our office and collaborate in person with clinicians and senior leaders.

## What you’ll do

Lead a lean engineering team

You will manage 1-2 full-time engineers and help coordinate work across 3-4 additional developers. You'll work directly with the CTO to define technical strategy, as well as the structure, clarity, and follow-through needed for the team to thrive. You will provide clear feedback, help prioritize work, unblock execution, and support a team environment where engineers understand what matters and can do their best work.

Own technical direction

You are the most senior technical decision-maker on the team: you own architecture calls, take on the hardest problems yourself, and set the quality bar through your own code and design reviews.

Stay hands-on and ship

You will design and ship meaningful product and platform work yourself — backend services, fullstack features, integrations, internal tools, and infrastructure improvements. Your output as an engineer is a core part of this role.

Partner closely with Product and Clinical teams

You will translate clinical and operational needs into practical technical plans, help scope work, and make smart tradeoffs around speed, quality, risk, and complexity.

Support AI-enabled engineering practices

You will use tools like Claude, Cursor, and other AI-assisted workflows to improve engineering speed and quality, while maintaining strong judgment around security, privacy, accuracy, and production risk.

Keep the foundations healthy

You will help maintain and improve backend services, infrastructure, deploy hygiene, observability, production reliability, and architectural decision-making.

## What we’re looking for

Required experience

- Strong full-stack engineering experience across backend services and modern frontend applications
- Experience as a tech lead who also managed people — or a staff-level IC who has mentored engineers, led projects end to end, and wants to add light management
- Strong backend experience in Go or Kotlin, with a preference for candidates who have worked in both
- Comfort across Node, TypeScript, React, and Next.js
- Experience with cloud infrastructure in AWS or GCP, with a preference for GCP
- Experience running or supporting production workloads on Kubernetes
- Strong product judgment and the ability to partner well with Product, Clinical, Design, Data, and Security
- Practical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to move faster without lowering the quality bar
- A high bar for reliability, security, code quality, documentation, and what “done” means
- Comfort in a small, fast-moving environment where priorities can shift and the team needs people who can both lead and execute

## Nice to have

- Experience in healthcare, digital health, clinical operations, regulated environments, or products that handle sensitive data
- Experience improving internal tools, clinical workflows, care team tooling, or operational systems
- Experience managing contractors or distributed engineering capacity
- Experience helping teams adopt AI tools, engineering standards, or development workflows

## Compensation & Benefits

Parsley Health is committed to providing an equitable, fair, and transparent compensation program for all employees.

The starting salary for this role is between $182,000 and $215,000, depending on skills and experience. We take a geo-neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location.

Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including experience level, skillset, scope, and internal equity relative to peers at the company.

## Benefits include

- Equity stake for all employees based on role level
- 401(k) + employer matching program
- Hybrid opportunity with remote work and time on site at our NYC HQ
- Complimentary Parsley Health Complete Care membership
- Subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
- Generous flexible time off plan
- Annual professional development stipend
- Annual wellness stipend

## Equal Opportunity Statement

At Parsley Health we believe in celebrating everything that makes us human and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We embrace diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.

The more inclusive we are, the better we can serve our members.

Important note

In light of the recent increase in hiring scams, if you're selected to move onto the next phase of our hiring process, a member of our Talent Acquisition team will reach out to you directly from an @parsleyhealth.com email address to guide you through our interview process.

Please note:

- We will never communicate with you via Microsoft Teams
- We will never ask for your bank account information at any point during the recruitment process
- We will never send you a check, electronic or physical, to purchase home office equipment

We look forward to connecting.

## About Parsley Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A physician-led functional medicine practice that combines whole-body, root-cause medical care with advanced diagnostics and technology to treat chronic conditions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded; Series C in 2021)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Dr. Robin Berzin, MD

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Healthcare (functional medicine, wellness, digital health)
- Target customers: B2C – individuals suffering from chronic conditions (hormonal, gut, metabolic, autoimmune, etc.), with both direct-pay and insurance-covered programs
- Mission: “To transform the health of everyone, everywhere through the world’s best possible medicine.”

## Products & Services
- **Parsley Health Core Membership (Complete Care)**: Ongoing, comprehensive functional medicine care with a dedicated board-certified clinician, advanced lab testing, personalized treatment plans, and progress tracking via the Parsley Symptom Index (PSI). Delivered virtually nationwide and in-person in New York City and Los Angeles. Accepts insurance.
- **Parsley Health Essentials**: A lower-cost, self-guided version with a one-time clinician review, lab testing, and a 12-month care plan ($250‑$550/year).
- **Parsley Health Platform (underlying technology)**: Proprietary clinical protocols, AI-enabled tools for shared case review, and outcomes-tracking software that monitors symptom improvement across the practice.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ≈ $17.8M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding ≈ $121.1M (including a $53M Series C in May 2021, and a small venture round in Feb 2024 of $128K)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not individually named in the search results, but the 2024 round included 2 investors and the 2021 Series C included 5 investors.
- **Growth Signals**: ~92 employees (‑6.8% YoY), 50,000+ members served nationwide, 89% report symptom improvement in the first year, peer-reviewed studies backing outcomes. Expanding insurance acceptance for broader accessibility.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Physician-led model** with board-certified clinicians (MDs, DOs, NPs, PAs) trained at top institutions and a proprietary functional medicine fellowship.
- **Standardized, evidence-based protocols** – the only documented set of functional medicine protocols continuously refined across the practice.
- **Outcomes tracking (PSI)** – quantifiable symptom improvement data for both individual care and practice-wide research.
- **Integrated care** combining functional medicine with conventional prescriptions when needed, all within a tech-enabled platform.

## Strategic Focus
- **Insurance expansion**: Making functional medicine accessible through in-network coverage (currently accepted for Complete Care).
- **AI & technology**: Leveraging AI-enabled tools for clinical insights and shared case review to scale high-quality care.
- **Whole-body, long-term care**: Moving beyond episodic visits to continuous, partnership-based care that treats root causes.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Opportunity to work in a physician-led organization committed to transforming healthcare and addressing the root causes of chronic illness.
- **Work flexibility**: Roles are available both in-person (NYC, LA) and remote (telemedicine, engineering, product). The culture emphasizes “flexible hours,” “commuter benefits,” and “PTO.”
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits (medical, dental, vision), HSA/FSA eligibility, and a supportive team environment.
- **Engineering & product culture**: A growing tech team working on AI and product innovation for clinical care – recent openings include Principal Product Engineer (full-stack) and a Director of Clinical Product.
- **Team size & structure**: ~92 employees with a mix of clinical, customer service, engineering, and product roles. Headquarters in New York, NY.
- **Caution**: Employee reviews on LinkedIn (2.5/5, based on 146 reviews) suggest mixed sentiment around work-life balance, compensation, and culture – applicants may want to research further.

## Sources
1. [parsleyhealth.com](https://www.parsleyhealth.com/) – Main site with pricing, insurance info, and clinical overview.
2. [parsleyhealth.com/company](https://www.parsleyhealth.com/company) – About page with mission, vision, founder, and clinical methodology.
3. [parsleyhealth.com/careers](https://www.parsleyhealth.com/careers) – Careers page with culture descriptions and benefits.
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/parsleyhealth](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/parsleyhealth/jobs/7619119003) – Greenhouse job board showing open roles.
5. [linkedin.com/company/parsley-health](https://www.linkedin.com/company/parsley-health) – LinkedIn company page with employee count, revenue, funding, and reviews.

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