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# Staff Engineer at AnswersNow Inc

- **Company:** AnswersNow Inc
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/answersnow/becb01d0-c8fd-401a-9a69-2aa500232595

## Job description

Staff Engineer Remote, Anywhere in the US

## About AnswersNow

At AnswersNow, we are trailblazing the future of autism therapy, making it more immediate, accessible, and effective for families everywhere. Our innovative virtual ABA therapy platform is thoughtfully designed by clinicians to recreate the focused, supportive environment of in-person therapy, complete with distraction-free features and interactive activities that enhance engagement and progress. Our team operates fully remote—meaning you’ll have the flexibility to work from the comfort of home. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and join a team that's reshaping autism therapy, we’d love to hear from you!

Why this role matters: We're looking for a Staff Engineer who operates at the intersection of deep technical expertise and broad organizational impact. You don't just write great code — you elevate the entire engineering organization. You shape architecture decisions, define engineering standards, mentor engineers across all levels, and partner with product and clinical leadership to translate complex problems into scalable technical solutions. At AnswersNow, this means owning the technical health of our platform — our React frontend, Node/Express APIs, Postgres data layer, AWS ECS infrastructure, and our growing ETL and AI pipeline ecosystem — while ensuring the team can move fast without accumulating crippling technical debt.

Job Details

- W2 Employee
- Full-Time
- 100% Remote

Job Requirements

- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a senior or staff-level role
- Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript in a production full-stack environment
- Strong command of React, Node.js/Express, and Postgres — you can reason about performance, reliability, and maintainability at each layer
- Proven experience designing and owning distributed systems or data pipeline architectures on AWS (ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda experience valued)
- Track record of technical mentorship — you've made engineers around you measurably better
- Excellent written and verbal communication; you can write an architecture doc, run a design review, and brief a non-technical executive in the same day
- Experience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup — you understand the balance between velocity and sustainability
- Familiarity with ETL pipelines, AI/LLM integration patterns, or data-intensive systems is a strong plus
- Significant experience architecting and deploying production-grade ML/AI systems, including LLM integration and model lifecycle management.

Nice to have:

- Experience with healthcare or regulated data environments (HIPAA compliance, PHI handling)
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming pipelines
- Prior experience as an engineering manager who returned to an IC track (player-coach background welcome)
- Contributions to open source or engineering blog posts / conference talks

## What You’ll Do

Technical Leadership

- Own and evolve the architecture of our core platform: React frontend, Node.js/Express APIs, Postgres, and AWS ECS infrastructure
- Drive our JavaScript → TypeScript migration, establishing patterns, tooling, and standards the team can follow
- Design and extend our ETL pipeline and config-driven AI integration framework, enabling engineers to ship AI-powered features faster and more reliably
- Lead technical design reviews, create architecture decision records (ADRs), and ensure engineering decisions are documented and defensible
- Identify and resolve systemic technical debt — not just flagging it, but owning the plan to address it
- Define and execute the technical strategy for integrating ML/AI models into our core platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.

Engineering Culture & Mentorship

- Mentor engineers across all levels — pair, review, coach, and grow the team's collective capability
- Establish and maintain engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, observability, on-call runbooks, and incident response
- Serve as a technical resource and thought partner for product, clinical, and business stakeholders
- Help define the engineering hiring bar and participate in the interview process

Delivery & Operations

- Partner with engineering leadership and product to scope, sequence, and de-risk large technical initiatives
- Lead by example on production support — define runbooks, own post-mortems, and drive systemic fixes from incidents
- Work across UI, API, DB, and infrastructure layers with genuine depth in at least two

## What we Offer

- $151,000- $178,500 annual salary
- Fully remote – work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Flexible hours with an async-friendly team culture

More About AnswersNow AnswersNow welcomes applicants of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We believe a diverse team is a strong team, and are committed to provide a fair and equitable experience for every candidate. If you require reasonable accommodations at any stage, we encourage you to reach out. We’re here to support! Learn more about us at [getanswersnow.com](http://getanswersnow.com).

E-Verify & Right to Work AnswersNow participates in E-Verify and electronically verifies the work authorization of all new hires upon employment. E-Verify is only used after a job offer has been accepted; it is not used to pre-screen applicants.

For more information, view the [E-Verify Participation](https://static-assets.ripplingcdn.com/webapp-static/apps/everify/us_poster_participation.pdf) and [Right to Work](https://static-assets.ripplingcdn.com/webapp-static/apps/everify/us_poster_righttowork.pdf) posters in English and Spanish.

## About AnswersNow Inc

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare services – virtual autism therapy (ABA therapy)
- **Target customers**: B2C – families of children with autism; also works with insurance carriers including Medicaid (86% of families covered by Medicaid)
- **Mission**: To make the world as big as possible for individuals with autism.

## Products & Services
- **Virtual ABA Therapy Platform**: Full-service, one-on-one therapy delivered by Master’s or PhD-level board-certified behavior analysts (BCBAs) via a custom-built video platform. Includes assessment, personalized intervention plans, parent/caregiver training, and ongoing reporting.
- **Parent/Caregiver Training**: Structured support to help families implement strategies at home.
- **Proprietary Video Platform**: Designed for autism therapy – integrates billing, session notes, interactive games, and scheduling tools tailored to clinicians and learners.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metrics**: Total funding $53.56M (Series B led by HealthQuest Capital, with Left Lane Capital and Owl Ventures); estimated annual revenue $23M (LinkedIn estimate); 108 employees (+29.5% YoY); 194,000+ hours of therapy delivered; 97% of families report improvement in daily living skills.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: HealthQuest Capital (lead), Left Lane Capital, Owl Ventures, Virginia Innovation Partnership, Virginia Venture Partners, and 11+ other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $40M Series B in January 2026 to expand BCBA-driven, AI-enabled therapy; headcount grew ~30% year-over-year; operates in 5 countries (US, Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, Canada); 9 active job postings as of mid-2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Virtual-first model**: No waitlist, accessible from anywhere, reduces geographic and scheduling barriers.
- **BCBA-led, AI-enabled care**: Combines clinical expertise with technology for personalized, data-driven therapy.
- **Insurance integration**: Accepts all major carriers, including Medicaid – making care affordable for a broad population.
- **Proprietary platform**: Custom-built video and billing tools that streamline clinician workflow and enhance client engagement.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale AI capabilities**: Use artificial intelligence to augment BCBA-driven therapy and improve outcomes.
- **Expand geographic reach**: Grow family base across the US and potentially into new states/countries.
- **Deepen payer relationships**: Continue partnering with insurance carriers to increase covered families.
- **Build clinical team**: Actively hiring BCBAs, especially Spanish-speaking providers, to meet demand.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven impact**: Directly help children with autism gain skills and independence; 97% of families see improvement.
- **Rapid growth**: 30%+ headcount growth in the past year; recent $40M Series B signals strong trajectory and stability.
- **Remote-friendly roles**: Many clinical positions are telehealth-based, offering flexibility for BCBAs.
- **Supportive culture**: Founded by a therapist (Jeff Beck, licensed social worker) – leadership understands clinical realities.
- **Career development**: Opportunities to work with a best-in-class team and grow as the company scales.
- **Headquarters**: Richmond, VA (office-based roles); many roles are remote.

## Sources
1. [getanswersnow.com/about](https://www.getanswersnow.com/about)
2. [getanswersnow.com/careers](https://www.getanswersnow.com/careers)
3. [getanswersnow.com](https://www.getanswersnow.com/)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/answersnow](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/answersnow)
5. [linkedin.com/company/answersnow](https://www.linkedin.com/company/answersnow)

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