Measure what matters.
Nell and Dan founded Folia Health because it has been simply too hard for their family members to receive personalized, data-driven healthcare that directly addresses the issues they're dealing with. People around the country and now the world, including our own team members and families, use Folia to track what they're experiencing - fatigue, symptom flares, pain - alongside what they're currently doing for treatment, and then use this information to understand the best way forward. Most Folia users also receive Data Dividends to share their data as part of our Research Programs, the business model that keeps Folia humming along.
Along the journey of building Folia, we've developed and validated a new type of health data - home-reported outcomes (or HROs). HROs allow people dealing with complex conditions to digitize their vast personal health knowledge, with simple responses to a personalized set of multiple-choice questions whenever they're experiencing a change in their health. HROs are actually now a valued part of the research methods that leading life sciences companies use to understand how their therapies are impacting people in the real world.
Folia (‘foglia’ is leaf in Italian) was named for the power of the individual contributions of people tracking their own health experiences. Each individual contributor is a leaf on the tree, performing important tasks to enable the whole (healthcare) tree to grow and become stronger - ultimately benefitting the leaf itself. (Yes we may have taken the metaphor too far...)
We are:
Female-founded and led by parents and family caregivers
Stubbornly focused on making healthcare make sense
9 years in business
Backed by top venture funds with a strong financial runway
Made possible by our fast-growing user community with thousands of users in rare conditions
We are a small and highly collaborative engineering team supporting a large number of projects and initiatives. As such, new engineers on our team will contribute to development efforts across our stack, including development of back-end web services, web and native mobile clients, and data processing tools using SQL. Engineers on our team also collaborate with product specialists and other stakeholders to refine designs and project plans to ensure the company’s goals are met.
This position is a great fit for developers who are enthusiastic about working with a variety of technologies, and who can learn and apply new skills quickly. If you are excited about building software that makes a real difference in the lives of its users, while rapidly leveling up as an engineer, you will be a great fit!
Our Technologies
PHP, Laravel, MySQL (back end)
Swift (native iOS)
Kotlin (native Android)
Javascript (web)
Qualifications
3+ years of experience in software development
Experience with one or more modern programming languages
Ability to design effective domain models
Background in object oriented design patterns
Experience with RESTful web services
What You Will Do:
Develop Folia’s core model for recording and analyzing personal health data
Contribute to the design and implementation of web services for consumption by our client applications
Contribute to the design and implementation of features for our front-end applications (web and mobile)
Rapidly scale your skills and role within the company as we scale our organization
Environment
We currently have an office in Boston, MA and our team works remote and in-person based on their individual preference.
Compensation
Starting salary range of 110k - 150k depending on experience
Significant stock options
Benefits including health insurance, dental, vision, and long term disability insurance, and 401(k)
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.
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