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# Senior Product Engineer at Develop Health

- **Company:** Develop Health
- **Location:** Menlo Park, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/develop-health/b81604f2-f843-42a6-9049-15ad20b505da

## Job description

Develop Health is on a mission to use AI to radically accelerate access to life-saving medications. By automating complex, manual healthcare processes—like benefit verification and prior authorization— we've been growing rapidly and over the past couple of years have helped over 2.5 million patients! We’re partnering with some of the largest pharmacy benefit managers and payers in the nation, revolutionizing how healthcare interactions occur by eliminating human delays and inefficiencies. Our small, elite team of founders and engineers have previously launched and exited successful healthcare startups including Rupa Health and Canvas Medical. We are now scaling rapidly following a major funding round.

## About The Role

We're hiring a Senior Product Engineer to turn ambiguous, high-impact healthcare problems into simple products and ship them end to end. This is a hands-on, full-stack role spanning problem definition, implementation, launch, and production validation. You'll build Python services and APIs, TypeScript and React interfaces, integrations, and AI-powered workflows, working directly with our Product, AI, and Operations teams and the people who use what you build. AI is part of how we work. You'll use coding agents to investigate systems and accelerate implementation while retaining ownership of the product behavior, technical decisions, testing, and production outcome.

What You'll Do — Impact In Your First 3–6 Months

- Work with users and internal stakeholders to define a meaningful problem, the smallest useful solution, and observable success signals.
- Ship full-stack product features across backend services, user interfaces, data models, integrations, and workflow infrastructure.
- Integrate AI capabilities where they improve the workflow, with the reliability and fallbacks required for production healthcare software.
- Make pragmatic product and technical trade-offs, leaving enough context for teammates and agents to execute confidently.
- Build testing, observability, rollout safety, and user feedback into the work, then iterate until the feature produces the intended outcome.

What You'll Own — Driving Growth Beyond 6 Months

- Own major product surfaces and the customer or operational outcomes they support.
- Shape product direction using customer evidence, operational data, and technical constraints.
- Scale the architecture and API layer as our products, integrations, and transaction volume grow.
- Raise the team's bar for product shaping and engineering quality, and mentor other engineers.

## What You'll Bring On Day 1

- Production full-stack experience. You have at least 3 years of experience building and shipping software that real users depend on.
- Strong engineering fundamentals. You're effective in Python and a modern typed frontend stack, and can ramp quickly on TypeScript and React.
- End-to-end product ownership. You're excited to start with an ambiguous problem, work with users to shape the right solution, and carry it through implementation and a measured result.
- User-facing craft. You care whether a complex workflow feels clear and trustworthy, as well as whether the system is technically sound.
- AI-native execution. Coding agents materially change how you investigate and build, and you verify their output rather than delegating judgment.
- Clear communication. You work precisely with engineers, product partners, operators, and customers.

## What You'll Need To Learn Quickly

- How benefit verification and prior authorization work across providers, pharmacies, payers, and pharmacy benefit managers.
- Where medication-access workflows break and how those failures affect patients, clinical teams, and operations.
- How our product, workflow, and AI systems interact within healthcare data and reliability constraints.
- How customers and internal teams evaluate success across turnaround time, accuracy, approval outcomes, and operational effort.

Bonus Points

- Experience building AI-powered or automation-heavy products in production.
- Experience with healthcare, clinical workflows, EHRs, payers, pharmacies, or another regulated domain.
- Early-stage startup experience or evidence that you thrive with high ownership and limited structure.
- Experience building workflow products, data-heavy interfaces, or third-party integrations.

## What We Offer

- Competitive base salary plus meaningful early-stage equity.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage; flexible PTO.
- A high-end workstation and tooling budget, including the AI tools that help you do your best work.
- Direct ownership of products that improve access to medication for hundreds of thousands of patients every month.

If you're excited to combine product judgment, full-stack engineering, and AI-native execution to improve access to care, we'd love to hear from you!

## About Develop Health

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Develop Health is an insurance AI platform that automates medication prior authorization and benefit verification for healthcare providers directly within their clinical workflow.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Menlo Park, California, United States (also listed as San Francisco, CA on LinkedIn)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Mel van Londen (Co-Founder & CEO) and Benjamin Easton (Co-Founder & CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare Technology (Prior Authorization Automation / Insurance AI)
- **Target customers**: B2B — healthcare providers, digital health companies, and physician practices (e.g., Calibrate); integrates with EHRs like athenahealth
- **Mission or purpose**: To clear the path for medication access by automating the prior authorization lifecycle, reducing administrative burden on clinicians, and getting patients to life-changing therapy faster.

## Products & Services
- **Prescription AI Platform**: An AI-powered system that automates the entire prior authorization process. It predicts medication coverage, cost, and requirements at the point of prescribing, automates benefit verification, completes and submits correct prior authorization forms, tracks status updates, and handles denial management by drafting clinical appeals.
- **Real-time Benefit Verification**: Provides instant visibility into plan-specific medication coverage, cost, and requirements directly within the EHR workflow.
- **Denial Management and Appeals**: If a prior authorization is denied, the system independently drafts and submits comprehensive clinical appeals to defend the treatment plan.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$33.7 million** across two rounds (Pre-Seed and Series A)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Wing Venture Capital (lead, Series A), South Park Commons (lead, Pre-Seed), Afore Capital (Pre-Seed), Analog Ventures, MTech Capital. Key integration partner: athenahealth.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+200% year-over-year** to 22 employees. Raised a **$17.6M Series A** in late 2025. Launched a major integration with **athenahealth (athenaOne)** in December 2025. Client Calibrate reported a **70% reduction** in hands-on prior authorization time.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep EHR Integration**: The platform is built to be invisible to the clinician, operating entirely within existing workflows (e.g., athenaOne) without requiring extra clicks or logins.
- **End-to-End Automation**: Covers the entire medication access journey from benefit verification to submission to appeals, reducing manual work by up to 90%.
- **Proven Outcomes**: Demonstrated real-world results, including reducing approval time from one week to under one day, and a 5–7x reduction in the number of prior authorizations required per member.
- **Data Integrity & Compliance**: Maintains high standards of healthcare compliance (HIPAA, etc.) for security and privacy.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand EHR Integrations**: Following the athenahealth integration, the company is likely focused on integrating with other major EHR platforms to reach more providers.
- **Scale Commercial Adoption**: Using the Series A funding to grow the customer base beyond early adopters (like Calibrate) into larger health systems and independent practices.
- **Deepen AI Capabilities**: Continuing to improve the AI’s ability to predict coverage and automate complex clinical evidence extraction from patient notes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Mission**: Mission-driven work directly addressing a major cause of physician burnout (the average physician completes 43 prior authorizations per week). The team is small and growing fast.
- **Work Model**: **In-Office** (Menlo Park, CA). Employees work from a physical office.
- **Team & Growth**: A lean team of 22 with a strong technical core (29% in technical roles). High growth trajectory (+200% YoY headcount) suggests opportunities for impact and career advancement.
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but being an early-stage, well-funded startup (Series A) in a high-impact space typically offers significant ownership, equity, and the chance to shape the product and culture.

## Sources
1. [develophealth.ai](https://www.develophealth.ai/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/develop-health)
3. [CB Insights](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/develop-health)
4. [Built In](https://builtin.com/company/develop-health)
5. [Ashby Careers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/develop-health)

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