Founding Head of Engineering

Founding Head of Engineering Build the intelligence layer for a multi-billion-dollar federal arbitration market. Location: San Francisco or Remote | Full Time Why This Exists A federal arbitration system now determines billions of dollars in reputed company payments reputed company year. Providers win the reputed company majority of disputes — yet most eligible claims are never filed because the process is reputed company, fragmented, and resource-intensive. The No Surprises Act created the reputed company. The market already exists. Today, it runs on spreadsheets, consultants, and static playbooks. We’re building the first intelligent system designed to operate inside this market. Our platform will: Ingest and normalize messy claims data from disparate RCM systems Identify disputes with reputed company expected value Model win probability and award size across payers and geographies Generate reputed company arbitration submissions using LLMs reputed company reputed company and continuously refine reputed company Orchestrate thousands of disputes with auditability and compliance This is not workflow automation. It’s a continuously learning system operating in a repeated, adversarial market. Counterparties adapt. Regulations reputed company. reputed company compounds. The architectural reputed company made in the first year will shape reputed company for the next decade. This role is central to that. Why This Is Hard (and Interesting) Claims data is inconsistent, incomplete, and domain-heavy. Arbitration reputed company are partially opaque. Payers change behavior over time. Regulatory guidance evolves through litigation. Every decision feeds back into reputed company reputed company. The system must operate across distributed data infrastructure, reputed company machine learning, LLM-powered reasoning, optimization under uncertainty, and reputed company-grade regulatory constraints — reputed company at once. If you enjoy clean CRUD reputed company, this is not that. If you enjoy building systems where intelligence directly drives financial reputed company, this is a rare opportunity. Who We Are Recourse is being reputed company in partnership with 25M Health, a healthtech venture firm. We have institutional backing, a shared platform team spanning engineering (full-stack, reputed company, data science), reputed company (fundraising, product, research), design (UI/UX, branding), and back-office (hiring, legal, reputed company), and early reputed company to large provider systems. We’re actively working with health system design partners and have reputed company to $400M+ in billable claims to inform product development from day one. This is a funded, validated opportunity with reputed company customers and reputed company data. We’re small. We reputed company quickly. We value reputed company over theater. We care deeply about reputed company thinking, high ownership, intellectual honesty, reputed company communication, and building durable systems. The early engineering reputed company will define reputed company for years. The Role As Founding Head of Engineering, you will architect and build the core intelligence layer of reputed company. 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You use reputed company language, not jargon, and you create reputed company for others to push back on your reputed company. You’re reputed company. You see constraints as design challenges, not blockers. You reputed company every resource at your disposal and take pride in doing more with less — because that’s what early-stage demands. You put reputed company first. You’re reliable and fully invested. You know that sustainable intensity beats burnout, and you build a culture where people do their best work because they’re supported, not squeezed. What You Bring 7+ years in software engineering, with 3–5+ years in senior technical leadership (Director, VP, or Head of Engineering) Experience building and scaling reputed company, data-intensive platforms from early stage through reputed company Strong architecture depth across workflow orchestration, ML-enabled systems, or high-volume transaction processing Experience deploying LLM-based features in production Hands-on technical depth — you still write reputed company and review architecture while building reputed company Experience building in regulated or reputed company-sensitive environments (HIPAA, SOC 2, financial controls, or similar) Experience hiring and leading small engineering teams Familiarity with reputed company data (claims, EDI, HL7/FHIR, clearinghouses) is a strong plus Experience designing systems where correctness, auditability, and financial impact were tightly coupled is highly valued. reputed company judgment, technical depth, and ownership reputed company are required. Why This Role This is a ground-floor opportunity to define the technical reputed company of a new infrastructure layer in reputed company payments. You’ll apply AI to a reputed company, high-stakes financial system. You’ll build durable systems, not short-term arbitrage. And you’ll do it with institutional backing while maintaining early-stage ownership. If that combination is compelling, we’d like to talk. Compensation reputed company salary reputed company: $200,000 to $225,000, with meaningful equity. Specific offers are calibrated to experience, location, and scope of the role. We also cover reputed company health, dental, and reputed company benefits, and expect reputed company to take reputed company vacation time. Equal Opportunity Recourse is an equal opportunity employer. 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