Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Decibella Health is transforming voice data into a vital sign for women’s health and advancing research through a mobile health platform. The Founding Engineer will own technical direction, architecture, production standards, and release decisions across the company’s mobile, backend, and data-processing systems, while growing into engineering leadership.
Responsibilities
- From day one you'll own technical direction, architecture, production standards, and release decisions
- Over time, I'll focus increasingly on product, users, research, partnerships, and fundraising while you build and lead Decibella's engineering function
Skills
- End-to-end mobile release experience. You have personally shipped and operated applications on both iOS and Android and are comfortable with signing and provisioning, TestFlight and Play testing tracks, store review, versioning, over-the-air updates, and production releases
- Deep production experience with React Native and TypeScript. You understand component and render lifecycles, state management, and mobile performance. You are also comfortable using tools like React Native Skia and Reanimated to build polished, user-facing dashboards and highly performant data visualizations
- Backend and data-platform experience. You can design and consume versioned APIs; work with authentication, OAuth, databases, and object storage; and own serverless or event-driven services, schema migrations, and data integrity. Experience with Appwrite, Firebase, Supabase, AWS, or comparable platforms
- Proficiency in Python. You can maintain production Python services and data-processing jobs, including scheduled or event-triggered workflows, retries, idempotency, backfills, error handling, and observability
- Strong testing and operational fundamentals. You have implemented meaningful unit and integration testing, CI/CD, monitoring, structured logging, crash reporting, and production-debugging practices. You know how to identify where additional engineering rigor will materially reduce risk
- Security and privacy fundamentals. You understand authentication and authorization, secrets management, least-privilege access, encryption in transit and at rest, secure data handling, retention, export, and deletion
- You're excited about the science behind Decibella and excited about advancing women's health research
- A deep empathy for the challenges surrounding women's health, and a genuine passion for changing how these conditions are understood and researched
- Have strong product instincts and are excited to actively shape what we build. You're eager to contribute your own ideas and collaborate on the 'what' and 'why' of a feature, not just the 'how'
- You are a natural teacher and a collaborative partner. The founder is self-taught and built the V1 to get us here, but eager to keep leveling up her own engineering skills. You'll thrive if you enjoy sharing knowledge, explaining tradeoffs, and acting as a true technical mentor so she can continue building alongside you
- Can explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to people across product, research, design, and engineering
- Care deeply about privacy and understand that reproductive-health and voice data require a higher standard of care than an ordinary consumer application
- Experience handling health, biometric, or similarly sensitive data is extremely valuable
- Audio capture, DSP, speech processing, Praat/Parselmouth, or real-time media systems
- ML feature pipelines, scientific-computing workflows, or production data processing
- Apple HealthKit, Android Health Connect, Oura, wearable APIs, sensors, or biometric data
- Experience in regulated healthcare, clinical research, or consumer-health privacy
- Experience as a founding engineer or taking a product from zero to one
Benefits
- 0.5%–2.0% equity, granted as stock options with standard four-year vesting and a one-year cliff
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Paid sick leave as required by applicable law
- A new laptop
- A $500 one-time home office stipend to build your ideal workspace
- Remote-first flexibility in how and where you work
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