Company Overview

Pharos is a startup dedicated to improving patient safety in hospitals through advanced AI-powered reporting and analytics. Our mission is to make healthcare safer by automating hospital quality reporting and helping staff identify and prevent the root causes of avoidable harm. Our vision is an AI system reviewing every chart at scale, identifying patterns and giving clinicians the insights they need to prevent the 100k avoidable deaths that occur in U.S. hospitals every year. We raised a $5m seed funding round at the end of 2024.

About the Role

This is a pivotal role as a founding member of the engineering team at Pharos. As a Software Engineer, you will bridge the critical gap between product vision and technical execution. You will be responsible for building, shipping, and maintaining our core user-facing applications, working in close partnership with the founders and design team. These products include an interface for users to review and correct AI-generated results to medical questions, as well as an analytics and root cause analysis platform where users can visualize clinical quality trends and drill down into the causes of specific patient safety events.

The scope of this role is intentionally broad. As one of our first engineers, you’ll be part of the founding team and work across product development, integrations, internal tooling, infrastructure, and full-stack engineering. We’re building a new category of product, so many of the problems you’ll work on won’t have an established playbook.

You’ll build customer-facing features, integrations with healthcare systems, internal tools that speed up clinical registry development and customer onboarding, and the LLM systems that power our product.

You’ll work closely with a high-agency, close-knit engineering team that moves quickly, shares context, and collaborates deeply on technical and product decisions. Your work will directly shape the systems healthcare workers use every day to make healthcare safer

What You'll Do

End-to-End Feature Development: Own the end-to-end development of new user-facing features, from technical design and implementation to testing, deployment, and monitoring.

Integrations: Build and maintain integrations with customer systems, third-party platforms, APIs, and healthcare data sources.

Internal Tools: Build internal tools that accelerate the development of our clinical registries, streamline data workflows, and make new customer integrations faster and easier to deliver.

Design-to-Production: Work with designers and product stakeholders to turn product requirements and prototypes into reliable, maintainable software.

Full-Stack Implementation: Build and maintain all components of our product, including the front-end and the back-end APIs and services that power them.

Product Ownership: Act like a product owner. Rapidly prototype new ideas, participate in user feedback sessions, and use your product intuition to advocate for the best user experience.

Infrastructure & Deployment: Manage and improve our CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and deployment processes to ensure reliability, scalability, and a fast development loop.

Uphold Quality: Champion high standards for code quality, testing, and engineering best practices within a fast-moving startup environment.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work side-by-side with the founders, designers, and AI research team to solve complex problems and build a cohesive, mission-critical product.

What We're Looking For

Minimum requirements

Engineering Experience: 3+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a strong track record of building and shipping user-facing products.

Web-Stack Proficiency: Deep expertise in modern web technologies, including a front-end framework (e.g., React, Vue), TypeScript, design systems and document databases.

Production Experience: Experience deploying and maintaining applications in a cloud environment (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).

Product & Design Sense: Strong product intuition and a keen eye for design. You care deeply about the 'why' behind what you're building and the user's experience.