About Fella Health
Fella Health is the telehealth clinic for men with obesity, backed by Y Combinator. With Fella, patients meet a board-certified obesity doctor to prescribe FDA-approved medications, while they undertake personalized health coaching through our app.
Obesity is the largest chronic disease in the US (>$100bn spent each year) and the traditional solution ("move more, eat less") only works long-term for ~10% of people. But obesity treatment is radically changing due to a new wave of medication options which are 2-3x more effective than previous options. In addition, only 10% of those using weight management services are men: all programs market to women, not tackling the stigma men feel around this.
- Luke studied medicine and developed a patented AI approach to detecting cancer at a YC bio company, before moving to Microsoft Research. He did a masters in Computer Science after Cambridge.
- Richie personally struggled with stress eating for 6 years. After Cambridge, he built and sold an AI company working with the UK government. He built a 10k-follower community around men's stress eating.
You can read more about working at Fella here: https://fella.notion.site/Working-at-Fella-14a2ac8575d34d148d009bb410387af4
Fella Health is live in Texas, and we recently closed a Seed round to expand nationwide. We're backed by top health/consumer investors:
- Y Combinator
- BrandProject, Global Founders Capital
- The founders of Indeed, Curative, Alan, Kaia Health, Not Boring, Vouch Insurance
The opportunity as Founding Engineer
Fella is building a world-class team. As the first engineering hire at Fella, you'll be taking over work from our technical co-founder, executing in both growth &product teams. This role is a critical part of the broader founding team because you will build the technical foundations of the company for years to come.
This role is FTE and fully remote.
Key responsibilities
- Growth — Architecture
- You'll work with our Head of Growth &co-founders to design &implement a tight growth tech stack. You'll ensure growth has accurate analytics (e.g. Mixpanel), smooth information flow (e.g. Segment, data warehouse, ETL), important tooling (e.g. CRM).
- Product — Architecture
- You'll work with our CEO (Head of Product) to design &implement a tech stack to ensure a smooth flow of information. You'll architect and build out the data pipelines to ensure the data warehouse &postgres databases are complete, piping data to the doctor and coaching tools. You'll design the infrastructure for our mobile app backend to enable us to quickly iterate.
- Growth — CRO
- You'll work with our Head of Growth &co-founders to analyze the signup funnel, develop hypotheses, prioritize &design experiments, build changes, evaluate results — all to improve conversion. You'll move very quickly, while keeping security high and tight data privacy.
- Product — Customer dev
- You'll work with our co-founders to turn customer insights into product features. You'll interview users to shape the product roadmap, prioritize features ruthlessly, and co-create wireframes with our designer.
- Product — Shipping
- You'll work with our CEO (Head of Product) to regularly ship high-quality features. You'll launch the React (Typescript) and Next.js experience of the Fella app. You'll co-create our iOS and Android deployment CI/CD pipeline.
Need to have
- Technical &product skills:
- Experience: 3+ years experience as an engineer
- Frontend: shipped high-quality apps in either React Native or React
- Cultural skills:
- End-to-end ownership — you are comfortable owning projects from noticing the problem to delivering the outcome.
- Commitment to candor — we believe in open communication and transparency. You are a clear &caring communicator, welcoming feedback.
- Belief in the mission — we will help 1 million fellas by 2026. We have a lot of work to do, and you are dedicated to the mission.
- Do what is needed — speed is critical and often the solutions we need are messy. You are comfortable moving quickly and taking on work outside your job description.
- Dedication to excellence — you are obsessed with your role, with a commitment to compounding self-improvement.
Nice to have
- Technical &product skills:
- Backend: databases (SQL), system design (cron jobs), servers (node.js), data engineering (warehouses, ETL)
- Analytics: event analytics (Mixpanel, PostHog) and experimentation (A/B, multivariate)
- Frontend: Typescript, Next.js
- No-code: Zapier, Retool, Google App Scripts, Webflow
- Devops: CI/CD, GCP or AWS EC2
- Customer dev: experience with customer interviews and turning customer insights into features
- Design: Figma, UX experience
- Growth: UTM tags, ad pixels, customer attribution, prioritizing experiments
- Background: CS degree, previously launched own products/startup, comfortable at hackathons
- Cultural skills:
- Seeing systems — you recognize the system which produces the outcome, and focus on improving the system to fix the true cause of an issue.
- Positive-sum thinking — you think in terms of collaboration not competition.
- Managing yourself — you own your schedule, your habits, your happiness, your life. Your team-members help you flourish, but the eventual responsibility lies with you.
Benefits
- Compensation: competitive salary, equity, and unlimited PTO
- Pension: 401(k) contributions
- Healthcare: private medical insurance
- Family: paid parental leave
- Personal development: budget for books, courses, coaching
- Personal wellness: budget for gym, health apps
- Team: regular off-sites
- What are we missing? We're still early so you get to shape our culture.
How to apply
Email richie@joinfella.com with:
- your resume
- your Github and/or LinkedIn
We're running a high-velocity process and believe in open communication — so you'll hear from us quickly.