Software Engineer

Full-time, SF Bay/Remote

About Quadrant Eye

Quadrant Eye is on a mission to improve eyecare access and fight preventable blindness. We're building the next generation eye exam... inside the average American home.

V1 of our eye exam allows patients to renew their glasses and contact lens prescriptions online. V_final will be an end-to-end online exam that can remotely detect eye abnormalities.

Our team wants to enable patients' best and most visually rich lives. To this end, we're looking for curious and nimble minds to help us develop the world's first fully online eye exam and ultimately deliver high-quality eyecare at scale.

Some QE highlights:

🐝 We're a team of renegades: ex-founders, surgeons, scientists, digital nomads, and polymath hackers.

💸 Our backers include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and the creator of Google Image Search.

🍥 We're a mission-driven company tackling an eye health market worth $USD137B.

🌟 Our core focus is currently the development of patentable deep tech which we can take to clinical trials for FDA approval.

Your Mission as a Software Engineer at QE:

• Tackle challenging and meaningful research problems inherent to a new category of telehealth: at-home eyecare.
• Take ownership of large slices of our stack (e.g. analytics) and key eye exam features.
• Help define early exam architecture and set technical standards.
• Build MVPs and iterate rapidly to test product-market fit.
• Work alongside the research team to translate research results into functional patient-facing products.

tl;dr: We're looking for a kickass engineer to help accelerate the creation of the world’s first fully online eye exam.

We're looking for someone who has:

• 2+ years experience as a SWE or as a technical founder.

• Experience leading high-performing teams.

• Experience and aptitude for fullstack engineering (however, this will be backend-heavy) + data engineering.

• Ability to write scalable, modular code.

• Experience with some/all of the following: React, Express.js, Python, Django, Postgres, OpenCV, Cypress.js

• Respects patient privacy and human dignity.

  Bonus qualifications:

  • Experience shipping and innovating in a fast-paced early startup culture.

You'll likely enjoy working at QE if you:

• Thrive with lots of autonomy.
• Value being part of a team and can embrace remote-specific teamwork challenges.
• Communicate clearly and kindly.
• Are willing to experiment quickly and publicly.
• Can accept imperfection and own up to inevitable mistakes.
• Want to make a positive impact on the world.

What we offer

• A chance to determine the trajectory of a deep tech startup.
• Access to our network of founders (YC and otherwise,) top tier investors, famed researchers, coaches, mentors, and friends.
• Competitive salary with an equity offering.
• Full health, vision, and dental insurance benefits.
• Flexibility of remote work; WeWork or equivalent co-working membership. (Please note: we will have quarterly in-person offsites; additionally, as we scale, this may transition into a hybrid remote/in-person role.)
• 3 weeks PTO (in addition to 11 paid federal holidays)

The QE Pledge🐝

If you're looking at this, you're likely already considering forgoing big company comforts for the rollercoaster startup life.

We're working hard to build the fun, creative, and truly respectful company culture that we always wanted for ourselves. That means full transparency, no politics, 100% merit-based promotions, and lots of jokes.

Should you choose to join QE, we pledge to fully support you through and beyond your eyecare journey. We also pledge to practice diagonal organizational mobility — if there’s another role you become interested in, we will prioritize the QE family before sourcing hires externally.

Thank you so much for your time and consideration. We hope you decide to take a chance on us!

Interviews

• We see interviews as an opportunity to assess culture fit and team dynamics. We want to get a sense of how well we'll work together.
• We respect your time and make decisions fast

Please refer your friends! We're offering a $2500 finder’s fee for each position.🦋