<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kevg86</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevg86</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:08:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kevg86" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevg86 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yuzu Health (yuzu.health, Series A) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE<p>Pitch: Yuzu is not a wrapper, point solution, or integration on top of something. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to create their own health plan from scratch. That means our tech handles everything from the member/HR portals, claims adjudication, invoice automation, member support tools, to even printing and sending out ID cards.<p>Why: We're rebuilding health insurance from the ground up. We currently serve over 1,000 employers, and we're growing extremely fast (like over 10x last year fast)! Investors: We're well funded with investors like General Catalyst, Chemistry, Anthropic, Lachy Groom, Neo and founders from startups you know like Notion, Brex, Deel, and Mercury.
Roles: We're hiring engineers for in-person work over here at Yuzu's HQ in Chelsea, NYC. Primary need is for experienced Fullstack/Product Engineers and Tech Lead types but we're also looking for a Data Engineer. Job board here - <a href="https://yuzu.health/careers" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/careers</a> You can check out our old office in our MTV cribs office tour (we just moved to a bigger space so need to do a new one) - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820</a>... Here's a little blog post we put out recently also: <a href="https://yuzu.health/blog/series-a" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/blog/series-a</a><p>I'm Kev, the recruiting lead. Reach out to me directly if interested on kev ( at ) yuzu ( dot ) health</p>
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<p>Yuzu Health (yuzu.health, Series A) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE Pitch: Yuzu is not a wrapper, point solution, or integration on top of something. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to create their own health plan from scratch. That means our tech handles everything from the member/HR portals, claims adjudication, invoice automation, member support tools, to even printing and sending out ID cards. Why: We're rebuilding health insurance from the ground up. We currently serve over 1,000 employers, and we're growing extremely fast (like over 10x last year fast)!
Investors: We're well funded with investors like General Catalyst, Chemistry, Anthropic, Lachy Groom, Neo and founders from startups you know like Notion, Brex, Deel, and Mercury.<p>Roles: We're hiring engineers for in-person work over here at Yuzu's HQ in Chelsea, NYC. Primary need is for Fullstack/Product Engineers but we're also looking for a Data Engineer, a Backend Engineer and a Product Designer. Job board here - <a href="https://yuzu.health/careers" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/careers</a> You can check out our old office in our MTV cribs office tour (we just moved to a bigger space so need to do a new one) - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820</a>... Here's a little blog post we put out recently also: <a href="https://yuzu.health/blog/series-a" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/blog/series-a</a><p>I'm Kev, the recruiting lead. Reach out to me directly if interested on kev ( at ) yuzu ( dot ) health</p>
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<p>Yuzu Health (yuzu.health, Series A) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE Pitch: Yuzu is not a wrapper, point solution, or integration on top of something. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to create their own health plan from scratch. That means our tech handles everything from the member/HR portals, claims adjudication, invoice automation, member support tools, to even printing and sending out ID cards.
Why: We're rebuilding health insurance from the ground up. We currently serve over 1,000 employers, and we're growing extremely fast (like over 10x last year fast)!<p>Investors: We're well funded with investors like General Catalyst, Chemistry, Anthropic, Lachy Groom, Neo and founders from startups you know like Notion, Brex, Deel, and Mercury.<p>Roles: We're hiring engineers for in-person work over here at Yuzu's HQ in Chelsea, NYC. Primary need is for Fullstack/Product Engineers but we're also looking for a Data Engineer, a Backend Engineer and a Product Designer. Job board here - <a href="https://yuzu.health/careers" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/careers</a> You can check out our old office in our MTV cribs office tour (we just moved to a bigger space so need to do a new one) - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820116035129344/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820...</a>
Here's a little blog post we put out recently also: <a href="https://yuzu.health/blog/series-a" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/blog/series-a</a><p>I'm Kev, the recruiting lead. Reach out to me directly if interested on kev ( at ) yuzu ( dot ) health</p>
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<p>Yuzu Health (yuzu.health, Series A) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE
Pitch: Yuzu is not a wrapper, point solution, or integration on top of something. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to create their own health plan from scratch. That means our tech handles everything from the member/HR portals, claims adjudication, invoice automation, member support tools, to even printing and sending out ID cards.<p>Why: We're truly rebuilding health insurance from the ground up. We currently serve over 1,000 employers, and we're growing extremely fast (like over 10x last year fast)!<p>Investors: We're well funded with investors like General Catalyst, Chemistry, Anthropic, Lachy Groom, Neo and founders from startups you know like Notion, Brex, Deel, and Mercury.<p>Roles: We're hiring engineers for in-person work over here at Yuzu's HQ in Union Sq, Flatiron. Primary need is for Fullstack/Product Engineers but we're also looking for a Data Engineer and a Product Designer. Job board here - <a href="https://yuzu.health/careers" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/careers</a>
You can check out our office in our recent MTV cribs office tour also -  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820116035129344/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7398820...</a><p>I'm Kev, the recruiting lead. Reach out to me directly if interested on kev ( at ) yuzu ( dot ) health</p>
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<p>Yuzu Health (yuzu.health, Series A) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE<p>Pitch: Yuzu is not a wrapper, point solution, or integration on top of something. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to create their own health plan from scratch. That means our tech handles everything from the member/HR portals, claims adjudication, invoice automation, member support tools, to even printing and sending out ID cards.<p>Why: We're truly rebuilding health insurance from the ground up. We currently serve over 1,000 employers, and we're growing extremely fast (like over 10x last year fast)!<p>Investors: We're well funded with investors like General Catalyst, Chemistry, Anthropic, Lachy Groom, Neo and founders from startups you know like Notion, Brex, Deel, and Mercury.<p>Roles: We're hiring engineers for in-person work over here at Yuzu's HQ in Union Sq, Flatiron. Primary need is for Fullstack/Product Engineers. You can check out our office in our recent MTV cribs office tour.<p>I'm Kev, the recruiting lead. Reach out to me directly if interested on kev ( at ) yuzu ( dot ) health</p>
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<p>Yuzu Health (yuzu.health) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE<p>Our mission: Rebuild health insurance from the ground up<p>Why: We're solving the root cause of spiraling healthcare costs in the US (we're not building an integration on top of United or Aetna)<p>Investors: Our investors include General Catalyst, Chemistry VC, Anthropic, Lachy Groom and many unicorn founders, including leaders at Stripe, OpenAI, Brex, Deel, Mercury and Notion<p>Team: We are reasonable, fun people that work in person in NYC<p>Roles: See here <a href="https://yuzu.health/careers" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/careers</a> (we have Fullstack and Backend roles posted at the moment. We're particularly in need of front end leaning folks right now and would consider other spikes also e.g. a Quant type to work on Pricing and we're also open to making a TLM type hire; all roles provide a ton of ownership).<p>Some resources if folks want to learn more about the space:<p>- Co-Founder interview with the Self Funded podcast: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqFNseHLA1M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqFNseHLA1M</a><p>- Co-Founder interview with Health Tech Nerds: <a href="https://www.healthtechnerds.com/p/russell-pekala-co-founder-of-yuzu-health-on-the-merits-of-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-and-th" rel="nofollow">https://www.healthtechnerds.com/p/russell-pekala-co-founder-...</a><p>- Our company blog: <a href="https://yuzu.health/blog" rel="nofollow">https://yuzu.health/blog</a><p>- Nikhil from our team’s substack on the industry: <a href="https://nikhilkapse.substack.com/" rel="nofollow">https://nikhilkapse.substack.com/</a><p>I'm Kev the interim recruiting lead. You can reach out to me directly on kev ( at ) yuzu ( dot ) health</p>
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<p>Nooks (<a href="https://nooks.ai" rel="nofollow">https://nooks.ai</a>) | Software Engineers (full-stack & backend/applied ML) | Full-time | Onsite in SF (hybrid)<p>Hi, I'm on the recruiting team at Nooks — we’re a Series B co using AI to reimagine the future of work for sales teams.<p>- What: Our AI Sales Assistant Platform (ASAP) automates the busywork in dialing, prospecting, and coaching so reps can focus on the human side of selling. Learn more here: <a href="https://www.nooks.ai/blog-posts/series-b" rel="nofollow">https://www.nooks.ai/blog-posts/series-b</a> | <a href="https://www.nooks.ai/blog-posts/why-all-engineers-need-to-learn-sales" rel="nofollow">https://www.nooks.ai/blog-posts/why-all-engineers-need-to-le...</a><p>- Fun engineering challenges: These include complex distributed systems, low-latency algorithms & infrastructure, and modeling sales calls with large language models. You'll also have the chance to make a huge impact on our customers (sales reps who spend 80% of their work day on Nooks.)<p>- Funding and traction: We closed a $43M Series B from Kleiner Perkins in Q4'24. We 4x’d ARR in both 2023 and 2024. We've had tremendous revenue growth since closing the B, acquiring customers like Hubspot, Windsurf and LaunchDarkly.<p>- Team: Our team includes many former unicorn early team members and founders, as well as multiple IMO/IOI medalists<p>We're looking for experienced engineers and an EM. To work at Nooks, you should love tackling difficult product questions and working closely with customers. Excitement about language models, few-shot learning and other recent AI advances is also a plus :)<p>Drop me a note if interested: kev [at] nooks.in or apply at the links below: Product Engineer <a href="https://www.nooks.ai/careers?ashby_jid=7091d714-5c22-452a-9797-d9c0893fb62e#careers-jobs" rel="nofollow">https://www.nooks.ai/careers?ashby_jid=7091d714-5c22-452a-97...</a> | EM <a href="https://www.nooks.ai/careers?ashby_jid=6d1342db-e2d4-47ac-8f29-c95fc936e0c8#careers-jobs" rel="nofollow">https://www.nooks.ai/careers?ashby_jid=6d1342db-e2d4-47ac-8f...</a></p>
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<p>TrialSpark (backed by Sequoia and Thrive) | Remote until July (NY thereafter) | Full-Time<p>Our goal is to reimagine drug development to get new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. We have multiple openings to turbocharge some mission-critical projects across Product Engineering, Data Engineering and Engineering Management. Our engineering team is small and open to implementing new technologies (GraphQL and TypeScript most recently).<p>Full Stack Product Eng job posting here: <a href="https://grnh.se/naqkxyys1" rel="nofollow">https://grnh.se/naqkxyys1</a></p>
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