Software Engineer, Office CEO

Build with the CEO’s mandate, and implement technology to transform the healthcare industry.

We’re hiring several earnest, high‑agency engineers into the technical staff of the Office of the CEO—a small, interdisciplinary team of analysts, engineers, and strategists—to drive Clover’s most critical technology initiatives from ambiguity to measurable outcomes. Our CEO is an engineer, and we believe that engineering principles can drive the change our company and industry needs.

Clover is many things: a health insurance company with industry‑leading clinical quality, a tech startup driving unprecedented physician engagement, and a clinical practice managing highly complex care. But more than that, it’s a wedge to change healthcare itself. If you’ve seen the failings of the healthcare industry from the outside and want to apply your engineering skills to fixing one of the world’s most fascinating flawed systems, this is your chance to make a difference.

This is a rare role designed for someone who thrives at the intersection of product, applied generative AI, data, and software engineering, and who understands that there are no perfect solutions, only trade‑offs. You’ll work with AI and healthcare data in close contact with our CEO to build systems that matter and help shape decisions across the healthcare ecosystem.

No prior healthcare experience is required. Apply and learn how you can build the technical systems that change the healthcare system in a way that really matters.

• Build from zero to one:
  Prove concepts to show what is possible. Collaboratively design and build whole new systems, sometimes using existing components, sometimes from scratch.
• Ship the full stack:
  Deliver technology that spans infrastructure, data, generative AI, conventional machine learning, backend systems, and many different kinds of user interfaces.
• Lay foundations:
  Many of the early concepts we explore will grow to be long‑term systems. Make decisions to stand the test of time.
• Learn from the past:
  Our technology goes back about 10 years, and we have learned and tried a lot. Learn the mistakes that new healthtech startups make without the deep technical debt of much older companies.
• Learn from each other:
  Be part of a small, elite, engaged, collegial, and supportive team that helps each other make the best decisions we can.
• Tinker, experiment, and understand why things work, and make them better.

• First 90 days:
  Quickly grasp Clover’s existing technology and data systems. Understand your building blocks and use them to deliver several small, high‑value projects hand‑picked by the CEO.
• First 6 months:
  Settle into a longer‑term area of ownership, picking one of several potential roadmaps to drive. Begin execution and land some of your first major milestones.
• First year:
  Deliver scalable solutions in your area of focus. Your well‑architected systems will allow additional members of the technical staff to join and productively scale outcomes.

• You have experience building and shipping systems: web, data, mobile, machine learning, desktop apps, systems engineering, you name it.
• You’ve spent several years with data systems, and have a good working knowledge of relational database design, data modeling, data warehousing, and data processing.
• You are highly practical. The most important thing is that it works for the business. The technology is exciting, but the outcomes are even more exciting.
• You love to build. You take joy in seeing something come to life, grow, and succeed.
• You are humble and collegial: strong opinions, weakly held. You like to work with other engineers, you love to share and learn.
• You adapt easily to context shifts and interruptions. While our themes are strong, we often need to pitch in across many areas.
• You’ve tinkered with, or built, systems that use generative AI, and are excited to explore how to apply it constructively toward business outcomes.
• You reside in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the ability to work in‑person 1–2 days a week preferred; but not required.

• Financial Well‑Being:
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