Note: We are recruiting on behalf of our valued client. This opportunity is for a position with their organization, not with People Culture Talent. We're excited to help connect talented professionals with this exceptional team!

About Vali

We're building the intelligent AI manager that transforms how home healthcare operates. Think of us as the nervous system for home care agencies—coordinating caregivers, managing schedules, and ensuring vulnerable populations get reliable, compassionate care around the clock.

Our multi-agent platform doesn't just digitize existing processes; it creates an entirely new category of AI-powered healthcare operations. We're already helping agencies serve thousands of seniors aging at home, with technology that makes care more consistent, proactive, and human-centered.

About the Role

As the Found Product Engineer, you'll build the AI-native operating system that's transforming home care for thousands of seniors. You'll work directly with their founders to design and ship core features—from multi-agent AI systems to real-time communication infrastructure. This is a rare chance to define technical culture, own meaningful product areas, and see your code directly improve care quality for vulnerable populations—all while positioning yourself for rapid growth into technical leadership.

As the owner of our Bookkeeping and Accounting products, you will tackle a mission-critical area: accurate time/mileage capture and proper shift finalization. Customers consistently cite this as one of their biggest operational pain points.

They've already built the groundwork, including integration with the incumbent system and automatically collecting missing information from care professionals. They are now expanding this foundation into a robust, scalable system that meets strong customer demand for daily review, high-integrity audit trails, and oversight and configurability across diverse client and payer requirements.

What You'll Own & Impact You'll Create

• Build the Financial Brain of Home Care

  • Design and own the intelligent system that ensures every caregiver gets paid accurately and on time—directly impacting the livelihoods of thousands of healthcare workers. Create automated decision-making that eliminates manual payroll errors, turning hours of tedious work into seconds of smart automation.

• Solve Complex Problems with Real-World Impact

  • Build exception-handling workflows that gracefully manage the chaos of real-world caregiving—missed clock-ins, schedule changes, and emergency situations—ensuring care never stops and workers are fairly compensated. Design configurable systems that adapt to different client needs, from small family agencies to large healthcare networks.

• Transform Data Into Actionable Intelligence

  • Create reporting systems that give agency owners unprecedented visibility into their operations—overtime patterns, margin analysis, and billing insights that drive better business decisions. Build the foundation for advanced features like predictive scheduling, cost optimization, and automated invoicing.

• Shape Product Direction & Customer Experience

  • Own features end-to-end from conception to customer feedback, with direct input on product roadmap and strategy. Work directly with customers to understand their pain points and see your solutions make an immediate difference in their daily operations. Help define what an AI-first healthcare platform should look and feel like.

• Ground-Floor Opportunity to Scale Your Impact

  • Join as one of the first engineers and help establish the technical culture and architecture that will support our growth from startup to industry leader. Work across the full stack—from database design to user interfaces—expanding your technical breadth while deepening your expertise in AI and healthcare.

You'll Thrive Here If You're Someone Who...

• Gets Energized by Meaningful Impact

  • You light up when talking about AI solving real problems—not just cool tech for tech's sake, but technology that genuinely improves people's lives. You believe the best products emerge from understanding real user pain points, not from theoretical feature lists.

• Takes Initiative & Drives Results

  • You naturally gravitate toward taking ownership—you see something that needs fixing and your instinct is to fix it, not to wait for permission. You communicate proactively and keep stakeholders informed without being asked. You ship fast and iterate based on real feedback—you'd rather get something good in users' hands quickly than perfect something in isolation.

• Loves Technical Versatility & Learning

  • You enjoy working across the full stack and aren't fazed by jumping between backend systems, LLM integrations, and user interfaces within the same week. You thrive in fast-paced environments where you're constantly learning new things and adapting to evolving requirements. You use AI-native development tools like Cursor and Claude to move faster while maintaining high code quality standards.

• Combines Technical Excellence with Business Intuition

  • You can translate messy real-world scenarios into clean, reliable software workflows—you understand that the perfect technical solution isn't always the right business solution. You have strong product instincts and can spot when a feature will actually solve user problems versus just add complexity. You naturally think about edge cases and ask "what happens when..." because you know real-world operations are messier than demos.

• Cares Deeply About Getting the Details Right

  • You hold yourself to a high standard for correctness, especially when your code affects people's paychecks, healthcare billing, or financial reimbursements. You take pride in building systems that are both reliable and auditable—you understand that "it works" isn't enough when money and compliance are involved. You enjoy owning data quality end-to-end because you know great products are built on great data foundations.

• Operates Like an Owner, Not Just a Contributor

  • You think beyond your immediate tasks to consider the broader business impact of your technical decisions. You naturally leave codebases, processes, and team practices better than you found them. You get satisfaction from building something that will scale and support the team's growth over time.

You'll Really Stand Out If You Have

• Founding/Early-Stage DNA — You've been employee #1-20 somewhere and know what it feels like to build something from scratch

• Product Intuition That Surprises People — You naturally think about user problems first, technical solutions second

• LLM/AI Product Experience — You've shipped AI-powered features and understand both the possibilities and the pitfalls

• Our Tech Stack — TypeScript, React, Python (but honestly, great engineers can pick these up quickly)

Why This Opportunity is Different

• Impact That Actually Matters Unlike most startups optimizing ad clicks or engagement metrics, you'll be building technology that directly improves healthcare outcomes for vulnerable populations. Every feature you ship makes caregiving more reliable and accessible.

• Compressed Growth Timeline We're at the perfect inflection point—past product-market fit validation but before scaling complexity kicks in. You'll get 5 years of startup experience in 2 years, with direct access to founders and outsized influence on every major technical decision.

• Work With People Who've Done This Before Our founders have scaled companies through multiple growth stages and know how to balance moving fast with building something sustainable. You'll learn from experienced operators while having the autonomy to shape our technical culture.

• Push the Boundaries of What's Possible We're not just using AI as a feature—we're building the first truly agentic operating system for healthcare operations. You'll work with cutting-edge models and techniques while solving problems that haven't been solved before.

• Upside That Reflects Your Contribution As one of our first engineers, your equity will reflect the foundational role you're playing. We're growing fast (20x ARR in 6 months) with clear line of sight to our next funding milestones.

• Ground Floor of a Massive Market Home healthcare is a $146B market that's still largely manual. We're not just building a better version of existing software—we're creating an entirely new category of AI-powered operations platform.

What to expect in our Interview process

We believe that people demonstrate their talent in various ways and we want to be flexible in what works best for you. We also encourage using AI tools to reflect how you actually work and use real world examples instead of leetcode style questions.

After an initial background screening to determine culture fit, we will work together to determine what’s the best next step for you to demonstrate your technical skills. It can be multi-day paid work trial, single-day AI assisted in-person mini project, past project walkthrough, etc. If you have your preferred method of showing off your skills as a talented engineer, we’d love to hear about those too!