Software Engineer, Front End

San Francisco, CA, United States

Forward is on a bold mission to make high quality healthcare available to a billion people across the globe. We’re building the world’s most advanced healthcare platform from the ground up, combining hardware, software and doctors under one roof. We are building our IT team and looking for a world-class IT Engineer with expertise in improving and scaling IT systems and infrastructure. As an early member of our IT team, you’ll have a key role in building the future of healthcare from first principles.

Forward was founded in January 2016 by former executives and engineering leaders from Google and Uber. We are funded by some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs including Founder's Fund, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet Chairman), Marc Benioff (Salesforce Founder), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir Founder), Joshua Kushner (Oscar co-Founder) and Garrett Camp (Uber co-Founder).

Press and Videos:

Health Moves Forward [CEO Blog Post]

Forward Health Launched CarePods [Tech Crunch]

An AI Doctor In A Box Coming To A Mall [Forbes]

Former Googler Adrian Aoun raises $100 million for walk-in AI healthcare pods [Fortune]

Forward Raises $100M and Announces Forward CarePod [Forward]

WHAT YOU'LL DO: Tackle problems on the boundary of software, hardware, and the real world.

Own front-end development for customer-facing portions of our core product and marketing activities

Work across multiple teams, including growth marketing, product management, engineering, design, medical, and operations; utilize your background in A/B, user flow testing and managing dynamic content

You’ll expand to work with Forward’s design team, translating mocks to premium, responsive UI including performant animations across browsers and platforms

You’ll develop reusable libraries and components useful across all teams at Forward

Work with top-flight software and hardware engineering talent from places like Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Palantir, and NASA JPL.

Own entire projects while working alongside cross-functional teams of doctors, designers, and operators.

Your work will directly contribute to saving and improving people’s lives. For real. :)

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: Impact - You’re deeply mission-driven and you think there’s more to life than software that enables puppy ears to be superimposed on photos. Although we concede those are cute.

UI/UX Experience - You have rapid prototyping experience, as well as some formal training or professional experience in design/animation and a strong portfolio of good-looking, high-performance webpages.

Product passion - You care about the bits you ship ending up in users’ hands. You don’t really need a product manager because you’re basically one yourself.

Entrepreneurship - You’re a self-starter who loves to own things end-to-end. You don’t ask for permission - you’re too busy making things happen.

Team player - You know how to make those around you better and feed off their energy. You take care of your teammates.

Curiosity - You like to mess around with computer vision, hardware hacking, or bioinformatics in your free time? You made your own smart mirror? Boy have we got some fun things for you…

Proficient in HTML5 & CSS3, and Javascript (ES5/6) and how they work in the browser.

Familiarity with one or more major frameworks preferred ( React.js , Vue.js , Backbone.js , Angular, Ember, etc. )

Experience with and opinions about complex design systems. You’re familiar with a constellation of tools such as Sketch, Zeplin, and Photoshop.

B.A. or B.S. or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or another technical or design field

You have a minimum of 2 years experience working in a related field

The base salary range for this full-time position is $100,000-$220,000, plus equity and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and location.

WHY JOIN FORWARD?

We don’t want to just move dollars around the healthcare industry - we want to rebuild it and fix it. All of it. You’d be a major part of the story behind one of the most ambitious startup attempts of the past decade and you’d work with a team of people who want to use their talents for good.

We are an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and afford equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

We deeply understand the value of bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and we prioritize diversity within our team. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

Information collected and processed as part of any job application you choose to submit is subject to Forward’s Privacy Notice to California Job Applicants .

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