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Join Anima, and you'll solve super interesting technical problems that will save lives.
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 dozens of clinics across the country, serving 500,000s patients. We're profitable, growing at 100% MoM, and went from $0 ARR to $4m ARR in 19 months from launch (Apr '22). That's pretty unprecedented in SaaS, never mind healthcare!
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. We have never churned a clinic.
We are pretty unique among health techs: we have both medical and engineering domain expertise. I wrote the Anima 1.0 backend in Node, 80% of which is still used. I 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.
Backed by a top 1% VC. Weāve raised a large Series A just 7 months after launch, in the first bear market of a decade. š
We were one of the hottest companies of YCās W21 batch and raised our first round in 4 days, led by Hummingbird (consistently top 1% of global returns). We are pretty unique among health techs: we have both medical and engineering domain expertise. I wrote the Anima 1.0 backend in Node, 80% of which is still used. I 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.
#** Anima has a unique hacker culture: everyone is technical with almost complete autonomy akin to āKnights of the Round Tableā. In 14 months, we built the most advanced Care Enablement platform that exists.**
Over 80% of the product team are ex-technical founders, former CTOs. We also have many 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.
We only hire exceptional talent who can 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. 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 ICs & domain experts.
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. Anima is a safe refuge for everyone to share their honest thoughts, feelings and be their complete unfiltered self.
Weāre super flexible over work schedule and location. Currently our main hubs are in West Europe (London) and West Coast US.
The quickest way to get your code into the hands of users. In 14 months, we built the most advanced Care Enablement platform that exists.
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 two recent examples:
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):
- Jay, built an verticalized analytics platform for Anima with Elasticsearch, supporting advanced features like a no-code query builder (similar to Amplitude) in 6 weeks. He also recently built semantic search and released Annie 1.5, a semantic search enabled, global context aware LLM that can converse and answer any question about any patient in the clinic.
- 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.
Does this sound like you?
- 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.
- 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.
- Expert competency in TS, and reasonably tech + language agnostic. 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.
Our current stack & what to expect from the role
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.
Strategically, we prioritise strong frontend-backend decoupling through GraphQL and strong modularisation of frontend and backend into hierarchical pure modules, with high abstraction internal services and helpers, allowing ephemeral lances (similar to āsquadsā) to work on functional modules without needing to understand or be overly concerned about other parts of the codebase.
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.
- This is a permanent role: things get even more exciting down the line!
To apply:
Click here to start your application
Click the link to start your application by completing a few quick questions. We'll review your application as soon as possible and if your answers catch our eye, next steps would be a technical screen & 15 min intro chat with the CEO. Please make sure to mention WaaS when you apply!
We can't wait to hear from you!
