Watsi | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-site preferred
We're looking for mission-driven, full-stack engineers to join our team.
Watsi is a San Francisco-based nonprofit building technology to finance universal healthcare. We’re a small, agile team united by the belief that everyone deserves healthcare, and motivated by the opportunity to use technology as a massive lever for positive change in the world. So far, our work has helped make life-changing healthcare possible for more than 20,000 people in 23 countries.
At Watsi, the code we write makes a direct impact on people’s health — whether by enabling patients to access services they previously couldn’t, or by helping health system administrators devise strategies to improve the quality and affordability of care.
Most of our funders don't receive anything in return. They just want to help Watsi scale. That said, many of them serve as informal advisors to us.
So far, we've asked two of our funders to sit on our board (alongside Premal Shah of Kiva): Paul Graham, and Christy Chin of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
Thank you! It's been a combination of 2 things: 1) building tools that make it easier for our hospital partners to scale with us more efficiently, thereby increasing their capacity to send us more patients, and 2) product/marketing.
If you're interested in the growth side of Watsi, we opened up a bunch of our data to Segment earlier this year, and they put out this post about the growth learnings they gathered: https://segment.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-watsis-data/
Wow, thank you! It took less than 90 minutes for all 1,000 of Segment's gift cards to be claimed.
You can still buy a gift card here: https://watsi.org/gift-cards. They're a holiday gift that's perfect for everyone and 100% of every gift card funds life-changing healthcare.
We want to thank the team at Segment for making such a generous donation to Watsi patients.
Segment not only buys Watsi gift cards for each of their new employees, but they donate their product (which we love) to Watsi so we can fund healthcare for more patients using the best tools available.
Your donation will go to a patient who's fundraising on our website but hasn't had their treatment fully funded yet (like these folks: https://watsi.org/fund-treatments).
People are generous with tips, which is awesome and helps a ton. At this stage, we're 100% focused on raising money for patients. But down the line we'll likely start optimizing more for tips as well, in hopes of becoming self sustaining (https://watsi.org/faq#how-do-tips-work).
Glad you found your answers! Feel free to shoot us an email with questions anytime. I'm grace at watsi.org and the person leading our medical partner program is dan at watsi.org.
The Universal Fund is a rebrand/official launch of monthly donations. Your next month's donation will be automatically matched because you were one of the first thousand to join (thanks for being a Universal Fund OG!).
You'll get an email about this tomorrow morning (we didn't intend to launch today, but it got out on HN a little early :)
Yeah! Every month, donors receive an email introducing them to the patient they supported, which serves as a tax receipt for that month's contribution. We also aggregate tax receipts for every Watsi donor and send them out at the end of the year for easy reporting.
Thanks for sharing! Want to make sure we mention that thanks to the founders of Teespring, donations are matched for the first 1,000 people to sign up. Let us know if you have feedback!
Thanks, Josh! Our operational costs are covered by foundations, philanthropists, and donors who leave an optional tip during checkout. More in our FAQ: watsi.org/faq
We're looking for mission-driven, full-stack engineers to join our team.
Watsi is a San Francisco-based nonprofit building technology to finance universal healthcare. We’re a small, agile team united by the belief that everyone deserves healthcare, and motivated by the opportunity to use technology as a massive lever for positive change in the world. So far, our work has helped make life-changing healthcare possible for more than 20,000 people in 23 countries.
At Watsi, the code we write makes a direct impact on people’s health — whether by enabling patients to access services they previously couldn’t, or by helping health system administrators devise strategies to improve the quality and affordability of care.
More info here: http://blog.watsi.org/engineers/. Please email [email protected] to apply.