Posted:
12/4/2024, 6:26:08 AM
Location(s):
Brittany, France ā
La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico ā
Baja California Sur, Mexico ā
Tuscany, Italy ā
Ouaka, Central African Republic
Experience Level(s):
Mid Level
Field(s):
Software Engineering
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Do you wish your work had greater tangible impact? š
At Anima, we're building the next generation care enablement platform for healthcare teams. You'll be building a product that saves lives; multiple Clinical Engineers (ex-MDs and fullstack Software Engineers) quit established medical careers to join Anima, for creating impact at scale!
Our mission is to deliver precision medicine to everyone in the world, within 24 hours. We know exactly how to get there and weāre moving ferociously with focus.
Our ambition is to be the OS for all of healthcare and life sciences, through a proprietary active learning, crowdsourcing training architecture - we call it Anima 2.0. We already have one of the biggest, highest quality labelled datasets in the world.
We're profitable, growing at 100% MoM, and went from $0 ARR to $4m ARR in 19 months from launch (Apr '22). Today, we are one of the fastest growing health-tech teams in the world with top 5% of SaaS growth rate - and strong growth endurance with top 5% CAC + gross margins.
We were one of the hottest companies of YCās W21 batch: we raised over $2.5m before Demo Day within 4 days, led by Hummingbird (consistently top 1% of global returns), giving us a runway of 4+ years. Earlier this year, we closed an over subscribed Series A round of $12mm, led by Molten Ventures.
**We have a pretty unique hacker culture at Anima with a flat hierarchy: almost everyone is technical and can code. A 'knights of the round table' structure and thinking from first principles is core to our culture, and is how we've made such rapid progress**. It's reflected in how we operate:
There's no separate founder, product & engineering teams - instead, we have Clinical Engineers who are both their own customers (MDs) and are strong fullstack engs, collaborating with pure software engineers. Due to the quality of our team, there's a heavy focus on coaching and teaching, with minimal to no line management.
We've been able to make huge strides in the NHS because we all deeply understand the problem, grading tasks based on our engineering expertise, and real life clinical trade-offs. This deep domain knowledge is ultimately how we integrated with the major electronic health records (EMIS and SystmOne) in just 4 months.
We're relentlessly resourceful - in 14 months, we've built an extremely loved enterprise app that users have said 'seems too good to be true'. Anima can take an information complete medical history as good or better than a typical human doctor, and automates patient comms and clinical notes. Our gross retention is >90%.
Anima is a safe haven for free thinkers and we've been careful to build a culture where everyone feels comfortable being their complete unfiltered self, sharing their honest thoughts, feelings without ever needing to self-censor. With a highly selective acceptance rate of around 0.5-0.8%, joining Anima means becoming part of a team with exceptional talent density and your crewmates will never let you down or waste your time.
We hire talented people who think from first principles and have high growth potential - great decision makers who deserve to have complete autonomy and are forces of nature when empowered with it. Decisions are never made in isolation by the founders. All information is transparently available to the whole team on our Notion - every meeting, decision, success, failure.
At the same time, we are deeply collaborative, and through mutual and self-challenge, we converge towards the optimum, and decisively execute. We are united by child-like intellectual curiosity and experiment and wander freely when the right path isnāt clear. We believe all future managers should be formidable individual contributors & domain experts.
We hire candidates from all over the world. We have remote hubs in EU West, NA and India, and plans to seed some in person teams in those areas too in the next 12 months (in addition to our fully remote teams). We offer flexibility over work schedule and location.
We have a good time :) we've had team lunches in Duck & Waffle, Breakfast Club, dumplings in Chinatown, had private screenings in our own cinema, booked out the Sky Pool etc. We get the whole team together at least twice a year for team retreats, with the last ones in Brittany (France), La Paz (Mexico) and Tuscany (Italy)!
Ever feel like you're a 'flowchart robot' just following a pre-defined set of guidelines? Do you miss thinking creatively and imaginatively? Join Anima, and as a Clinical Engineer, you'll use your medical training every day to solve super interesting technical problems that will save lives - problems that only you, a Clinical Engineer with your medical knowledge, can solve.
Clinical Engineers need to have a medical degree. Otherwise, no specific experience, including coding, is required for this role. If you do not have coding experience, you will need to demonstrate high aptitude and a high growth gradient for it.
Hi - I'm Shun, an MD and CEO of Anima. Thanks for checking out our job ad! Weāre tackling a problem that has affected everyone in some way.
Millions die every year because their medical problems arenāt treated quickly enough. Hundreds of millions suffer pain, worry and discomfort needlessly because of long waiting times. I founded Anima because I was tired of breaking bad news to patients who later died, because they didnāt get a great care plan quickly. So many of those deaths were avoidable.
Weāve built an ambitious āCare Enablement Platformā to automate the entire healthcare workflow, starting with primary care - combining online consultation with productivity tools and a single source of patient data truth. Anima has next generation features like autogenerating coded clinical notes and patient comms, and a real time multiplayer dashboard with a Slack-like chat experience that supports 1000s of discussion channels per clinic.
By enabling care, we get patients optimal care within 24 hours and 10x the clinical workflow in the process.
Since our launch and first pilot in March 2022, we're now used in hundreds of clinics across the country, serving millions of patients. Weāve been growing more than 100% MoM in terms of users and revenue. Weāre default alive, and currently have over a decade of runway.
Users love our product. The biggest testament to this is that most of our growth comes from virality and referrals with $0 spent on marketing, despite being B2B/enterprise.
The whole Anima team have personal experience of the problem we're solving: we're building what we wished we had as doctors and patients. I was the first Clinical Engineer and built most of the backend.
We are pretty unique among health techs: we have both medical and engineering domain expertise. I wrote the Anima 1.0 backend in Node and also built Annie 1.0, a tuned LLM coupled with a policy engine, that can output structured medical summaries, potential differential diagnoses and management plans. As a doctor and former HM Treasury health policy advisor managing Ā£4bn budgets in UK health spending, Iām a technical, product-focused CEO with full stack domain knowledge and personal experience of the problem weāre solving.
Our mission is to deliver precision medicine to everyone in the world, within 24 hours. We know exactly how to get there and weāre moving ferociously with focus, and we have everything we need to win.
Over 80% of the product team are ex-technical founders, former CTOs. We also have many fellow technical domain experts (āfullstack Clinical Engineersā, ex-MDs) who are their own users.
Everyone in product is technical at Anima and can write production code. This makes for a truly flat hierarchy. Thereās no separate founder, product or customer team - there is very little communication loss because we all deeply understand the problem, engineering, grading for potential features, and trade-offs. Deep domain knowledge & a tight feedback loop between product dev and user pain is how launched in the highly complex health space, growing from 0 to over 100,000 MAUs in months.
When everyone is technical and make great decisions, itās much easier to stay on the same page & execute rapidly. This means we have a super short latency from ideation to real usage.
Here are 3 concrete examples with specs and timelines (Iād be delighted to demo any of these to you):
James, a clinical engineer (ex-NHS doctor turned fullstack SWE), came up with and initially made a scrappy Google Sheets tool for creating clinical modules, achieving a 2-3x speedup vs. writing JSON. Two weeks later he went further and built a visual editor in React in 5 days, 10x-ing clinical module creation and testing. Recently, he integrated with NHS GP Connect in 4 days, allowing the entire healthcare system to access a single source of patient truth in combination with our MDT Hub feature.
Alex, a clinical engineer, built āSlack for medical teamsā, supporting 1000s of channels per organisation and a real time single source of truth for patient data, in 4 weeks, picking up a large set of new technologies on the way (ground up built from low-level services like Appsync, GraphQL, not Twilio).
Dennis built a lightning fast cloud document library for clinics in a few days, with <100ms traversals through preloading. Recently, when faced with an ancient legacy API that took 30s to return an array of hits, he hacked together an async indexing service with caching that reduced latency to <2s without harmful race conditions. He built and deployed to prod this in under 24 hours.
If high growth delta and joining an elite scrappy crew is your priority, youāre gonna love it here.
Hungry and wants their shot to change the world - a force of nature when empowered with the tools, resources and development to do it. Sees joining Anima as potentially their shot to do this, and takes duty to crew and mission extremely seriously.
Feels unable to fulfil their intellectual and creative potential in clinical practice; feel strangled by the lack of opportunity to create, synthesise and build. Wants to increase their impact, and at a larger scale.
Have hacked together a cool project in the past, that did something useful, and want to relive that feeling of accomplishment (everyday!)
Ideally, prior production coding experience with Javascript. If no coding experience, then hungry to learn & can demonstrate high growth potential for software engineering at interview.
Obsessively concerned with UX, and optimises for this when building features rather than arbitrary technical goals.
Bored and frustrated at big companies; feel held back by red tape, bureaucracy and poor decisions.
Keen to understand the big picture & entire context of the company and vertical; impatient for growth towards a senior executive role.
Will work obsessively towards achieving expert competency in TS, and reasonably tech + language agnostic. Comfortable (or will become comfortable) with key frameworks/libraries like Angular, Node and React. Able to work full stack in JS/TS. Values pragmatism and open discussion from first principles rather than dogma.
Seeks to maximise not only self productivity, but combined team productivity, communicating the right things at the right time through the right channels (verbal/Slack/Notion).
Disciplined towards best practice version control, CI/CD and code extensibility. Values āinterface safetyā through dimensionality reduction at interfaces.
Exceptional at ābreadth-first searchā through Googling when tackling new challenges, and consistently mindful of local maxima.
Intellectually curious with a growth mindset - able to tackle entirely novel challenges that lack prior precedent through applying strong CS fundamentals and first principles thinking, creatively using the right data structures & algorithms to solve problems 90/10.
Familiarity with AWS (APIG, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cognito, Amplify, CloudFormation) and/or hungry to learn.
We donāt enforce any particular experience level, but youāll need to demonstrate most of the above through past projects and/or our assessment process.
We are tech agonistic, and collectively choose the best tools for the job. Weāre constantly looking to maximise our productivity and minimise what we call ādiscounted dev time costā for shipping features. We have 2 separate fully functional web apps in prod: one for clinical users and one for patients. Our stack is currently entirely in JS/TS: Angular + Capacitor + Electron, React (internal tools), Amplitude (analytics), a fully serverless backend in AWS (Cognito, Appsync GraphQL, Lambda, DynamoDB). We have good functional & unit test coverage and CI/CD.
Our stack is in a great place already: highly scalable, cost effective, good test coverage, easily maintained, secure and performant with minimal to zero Ops. The product and codebase are stable and loved by our users. We write, test, deploy & ship new features rapidly.
Weāre looking to add talented engineers who are hungry and understand the urgency and importance of what weāre doing for society.
First month - some examples of what to expect:
Help add further key third party API integrations, including with legacy EMR systems and national APIs like e.g. the electronic prescribing service, allowing Anima to directly issue prescriptions.
Iterate on a proprietary graph traversal algorithm to improve patient care and clinical value, and increasingly move away from explicit curation to implicit curation by NNs.
Ship important features that will directly increase delta lives saved in your first 2 weeks.
Join customer calls to develop a deep understanding of their fundamental motivations and needs/pain points.
Next 6 months - some examples of what to expect:
Help architect and deploy a scalable & cost effective ETL data pipeline with version control, outputting clean data ready for tokenisation.
Help deploy our active deep learning training & validation architecture to prod, so that we can correctly eat up our ā1.0ā systems at the right time
Build cutting edge products like global context aware chat with semantic search, care orchestration and LLM-enabled cloud telephony e2e
Hire/scale the team, while implementing the right processes at the right times to maximise discounted team productivity and minimise discounted dev time cost for shipping.
6+ months - some examples of what to expect:
Potential to transition to a more managerial/executive role. Lead an autonomous lance of elite engineers to fix healthcare and save lives.
Work with the ML/data team to creatively ideate and ship features to improve ETL pipeline throughput and quality through a data-driven approach powered by analytics.
Website: https://www.animahealth.com/
Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Employee Count: 11-50
Year Founded: 2021
IPO Status: Private
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
Industries: Health Care ā Medical ā mHealth ā Mobile Apps