August Health | Multiple Engineering Roles | Remote (USA) | Full Time
Our mission is to empower the essential work of caring for our elders. We achieve this by providing a modern operating platform and electronic health record that enables senior living operators to deliver high-quality care with confidence.
Caregivers are the heart of senior living communities, embodying care, compassion, and well-being. Yet, they face increasing challenges—higher resident acuity, complex workflows, and staffing shortages. At August Health, we build tools that simplify their tasks, eliminate inefficiencies, and provide the insights they need to focus on what truly matters—caring for residents.
Our team brings together deep expertise in technology, healthcare, and company-building. We’ve led teams at Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe, co-founded and exited multiple companies, shipped products used by hundreds of millions of users, and managed clinical teams caring for thousands of patients.
Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we are partnering with some of the largest senior care organizations in the U.S. to transform the future of senior living. Our team is ~50 employees today.
We're a growth-stage (Series A in 2022) company that builds technology to enhance the quality of care for vulnerable older adults. Our product is guiding the transition from complex, paper-based practices in the long-term care industry to a digital platform solution that unlocks the power of personalized care, predictive analytics and happier caregivers. We're proud that we absolutely delight our customers: https://www.augusthealth.com/customer-testimonials.
Our team brings together deep expertise in technology, healthcare, and company-building. We’ve led teams at Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe, co-founded and exited multiple companies, shipped products used by hundreds of millions of users, and managed clinical teams caring for thousands of patients.
Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we are partnering with some of the largest senior care organizations in the U.S. to transform the future of senior living.
Technologies we use: Scala, Play Framework, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Postgres. You don’t need to have specific experience in all of these, but the ability & self-motivation to learn them is a must.
Given they’ve open sourced the model and their training techniques, shouldn’t it be pretty easy to get an order of magnitude estimate on if their training estimates are in the right ballpark?
The amount of real engineering that must have gone into a system like this is incredible. They didn't have the benefit of being able to iterate on an existing technology -> this is real hacking.
Having worked on the streets dataset for a FAANG, I'm blown away at the ingenuity here.
There is a newly enforced limit on (paid!) Google Workspace accounts - you can only share files with non-Google users up to 5 times each calendar month. Note that this doesn't cap external accounts, just those that are non-Google. So want to share with your personal Gmail account - no problem. More than 5 @hotmails - nope!
Only way around is to upgrade to a plan that is double the price.
"Important: If you use a Google Workspace Business Starter or Frontline account, you can share files up to 5 times each calendar month with non-Google accounts. Each time is defined as sharing one document with one visitor."
Not sure who at Google thought this was the right way to upsell business accounts. Also, there is no mention of this limit in any plan description (eg. https://support.google.com/a/answer/6043385).
We called them and asked if we could come visit in person and learn more about their business. I think you’ll be surprised how open people are to help - especially if you’re curious and let them talk about themselves.
I'm the founder of a venture-backed company in my 30s with two young kids under five. My co-founder is also in the same boat. A few points:
1. My wife works in a well paying field (nothing crazy, but comfortable), and we were financially stable enough to be able to live without my salary for a couple years.
2. We were very customer focused from day one, even before we incorporated. We signed up several customers (using LOIs) with just a deck, before we wrote any software.
3. We discovered a very clearly defined problem, a payer and clear willingness to pay.
4. I don't work like I used to. I feel much wiser about how I spend my time rather than brute forcing it with hours. Because of the two kids, I effectively work 9-5, M-F. I don't work weekends. During 9-5 though, I am dialed-in (I don't spend time reading the news or checking instagram). I delegate much more aggressively than I used to. I don't think I'm actually outputting much less than I used to, I'm just more efficient and focus on the more important things.
5. Venture - this is what it's for. There is still a bunch of venture out there for seed/pre-seed. We raised money early on and that allowed us to take small salaries (and hire folks to delegate things to).
100% it's definitely not as easy to start up in this stage of life, but it's also not impossible. Happy to connect with folks who want to connect (commiserate?) about this situation.
Being in product and engineering management for more than a decade, Linear is hands down the best tool I’ve used for ticketing. It would be hard for me to work somewhere if I wasn’t able to use it. Features are well designed, the tool is delightful to use and the design is world class. Also, there isn’t a tool I use that feels faster - it’s like they know what I’m about to click on before I do.
Second this, and not just for fashion. I went through amplify.LA at our geospatial analytics startup, Mapsense. The amplify folks were some of our best investors.
Our mission is to empower the essential work of caring for our elders. We achieve this by providing a modern operating platform and electronic health record that enables senior living operators to deliver high-quality care with confidence.
Caregivers are the heart of senior living communities, embodying care, compassion, and well-being. Yet, they face increasing challenges—higher resident acuity, complex workflows, and staffing shortages. At August Health, we build tools that simplify their tasks, eliminate inefficiencies, and provide the insights they need to focus on what truly matters—caring for residents.
Our team brings together deep expertise in technology, healthcare, and company-building. We’ve led teams at Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe, co-founded and exited multiple companies, shipped products used by hundreds of millions of users, and managed clinical teams caring for thousands of patients.
Backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors, we are partnering with some of the largest senior care organizations in the U.S. to transform the future of senior living. Our team is ~50 employees today.
See roles here: https://www.augusthealth.com/careers
I am a co-founder and ceo. Feel free to reach out (email in profile).