--- title: 'Senior Software Engineer at Craniometrix' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-software-engineer-craniometrix-new-york-trr46j0j8a0p' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-05' --- # Senior Software Engineer at Craniometrix - **Company:** Craniometrix - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $160k–$200k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-04-14 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/craniometrix-com/am9icG9zdDqDlU4SrOCuRacbEZyuEzFl ## Job description Craniometrix delivers care navigation for patients and families who need support with complex long-term conditions, starting with dementia. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our small engineering team and help build the product our operations team uses every day. This is a full-stack product engineering role for someone who is flexible, autonomous, and excited to own work from idea to production. You will work closely with Product, Operations, and leadership to shape what we build, ship new features across the stack, and improve the reliability and quality of the product over time. This role is a strong fit for an engineer who has good product taste, moves with agency, and is comfortable wearing many hats in a fast-moving environment. We care a lot about people who can operate independently, make good product decisions, and are genuinely on the cutting edge of AI-enabled software development. You should already be using AI deeply in your day-to-day workflow, whether for exploring solutions, scoping work, writing and refactoring code, debugging issues, improving tests, or accelerating iteration without lowering the quality bar. We are especially excited about engineers who actively seek out new tools and workflows, separate signal from hype, and turn the best new AI capabilities into real execution leverage. ## What You’ll Do - Partner closely with Product and Operations teams to shape product direction and turn ambiguous problems into clear solutions - Own features end-to-end across the full development lifecycle, including scoping, implementation, code review, deployment, and iteration - Build across the stack using React and NodeJS to ship product improvements that make our internal teams more effective - Work directly with the Operations team, including care navigators, to understand friction points and improve the tools they use every day - Monitor production through metrics, logs, and Sentry, identify issues quickly, and drive fixes through to resolution - Take clear ownership of the product in production: you build it, you monitor it, you improve it - Help raise the quality bar for engineering, product thinking, execution, and modern AI-assisted software development as we continue to grow - Use AI deeply across the engineering workflow, including planning, implementation, debugging, code review, testing, and incident response - Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI tooling landscape and bring practical new workflows, patterns, and tools into the team when they meaningfully improve speed or quality ## What We’re Looking For - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience - Strong experience building product features across the stack - Hands-on experience with React and NodeJS - Strong product taste and good judgment about what makes a product useful, clear, and high quality - High autonomy, agency, and comfort operating with ownership in a small team - Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and operations - Deeply comfortable using AI as part of your engineering workflow, and excited to stay at the frontier of how great engineers use it in practice - Strong judgment about when AI increases speed and quality, and when deeper manual thinking or validation is needed - Curiosity and enthusiasm for adopting new AI tools and workflows early, with the discernment to focus on what is actually useful - Excited to work in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities can evolve and everyone contributes beyond a narrow job description ## Preferred Qualifications - Experience with Postgres - Experience in a startup environment - Experience in healthcare or other operationally complex or regulated environments - A track record of thoughtfully adopting new AI tools or workflows to improve engineering velocity, quality, or leverage ## About the interview - Intro chat - Technical deep dive - Onsite project and conversation with leadership ## About Craniometrix ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Craniometrix provides AI-powered care navigation for dementia patients and their families, helping them stay at home by replacing fragmented support with always-on coaching and guidance. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, backed by Y Combinator) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2023 (according to company “About” page; Y Combinator batch Winter 2022) - **Founder**: Nikhil Patel (CEO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare services / Dementia care navigation - **Target customers**: B2B – healthcare providers (enabling them to offer Medicare GUIDE model programs) and B2C – families caring for someone with dementia - **Mission / purpose**: “Make dementia suck less” by giving families the right non-clinical coaching and support, avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations, and keeping patients at home for as long as possible. ## Products & Services - **Craniometrix Care Navigation Platform**: An AI-driven service that combines human care navigators, technology, and a partner ecosystem to deliver continuous support for dementia patients and caregivers. Medicare reimburses this service through the GUIDE Model. The platform handles care planning, coaching, coordination, and escalation – all designed to reduce hospitalizations by 30%. ## Market Standing - **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) – hit $4M shortly after launch in July 2025 and grew to $8M ARR by early 2026. - **Total Funding**: Over $21M, including a $15M Series A (mid-2025) and a $6M seed round (led by Quiet Capital, 2022). - **Notable Investors / Partners**: - Y Combinator (Winter 2022 batch) - Quiet Capital (Seed lead) - MIND at Home® (a Johns Hopkins Medicine program) – strategic partner - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 130% year-over-year (LinkedIn reports 22 employees; YC page shows team size of 64, likely including contractors or more recent hires) - Rapid ARR growth from $0 to $8M in less than a year - 35+ active job postings (as of Sep 2026) - Medicare reimbursement tailwind (GUIDE Model) ## Competitive Advantages - **Proven clinical outcome**: Demonstrated ability to reduce hospitalizations by 30%, which directly ties to Medicare’s GUIDE Model reimbursement. - **AI at scale**: Uses AI to augment human care navigators, enabling efficient, always-on support without sacrificing the human touch. - **First‑mover in a regulated market**: Built a solution that aligns with a new Medicare payment model, creating a moat against generic elderly‑care platforms. - **Partnership with Johns Hopkins**: Exclusive technology partnership with MIND at Home, a research‑backed dementia care protocol. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the care navigation service**: Expand the number of provider partners and enrolled families across the US. - **Hire aggressively**: Building out engineering (especially AI), growth, operations, and partnerships teams. - **Deepen AI capabilities**: Leverage AI to reduce costs and improve care quality while maintaining human oversight. - **Achieve market leadership**: Capture a significant share of the dementia care navigation market as Medicare adoption grows. ## Why Work Here - **Mission‑driven work**: Directly improve the lives of 11 million American families affected by dementia. - **High‑growth startup**: Series A stage with proven product‑market fit and hyper‑growth (employees own meaningful projects from day one). - **Culture**: Small team, high trust, low ego. Emphasizes “applied AI, healthcare ops, and human‑centered design.” - **Remote / hybrid**: Based in New York, NY but distributed team across the US, Canada, Brazil, and Georgia. Many roles list New York preference, but some may be remote. - **Compensation**: Competitive for early‑stage healthtech (e.g., Software Engineer $160K–$250K, Director roles $200K–$275K). - **Team**: YC‑backed, leads from McKinsey, Palantir, and clinical backgrounds. ## Sources 1. [craniometrix.com/careers](https://www.craniometrix.com/careers) 2. [craniometrix.com/about](https://www.craniometrix.com/about) 3. [linkedin.com/company/craniometrix](https://linkedin.com/company/craniometrix) 4. [ycombinator.com/companies/craniometrix](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/craniometrix) 5. 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