We're building software that helps employers replace traditional group health insurance with individual plans, making healthcare less expensive and easier to navigate for everyone involved. We're doing it now because recent regulatory changes and advances in AI have made it possible. We're building at the intersection of healthcare, fintech, compliance, and AI.
Implementation is getting cheaper; engineering judgment is not.
We're looking for engineers who enjoy turning ambiguous problems into production systems, working across product and architecture, reviewing AI-generated code, building leverage through automation, and shipping quickly without creating a maintenance disaster.
Strong Python or TypeScript experience (or equivalent), good judgment, and good communication are more important to us than checking every box. US residency required, with a preference for candidates in the Eastern Time Zone or nearby.
We’re building a national ICHRA platform at the intersection of healthcare, fintech, compliance, and AI.
Implementation is getting cheaper. Engineering judgment is not.
We’re looking for engineers who enjoy:
* Turning ambiguous problems into production systems.
* Owning outcomes, not tickets.
* Working across product, architecture, and implementation.
* Reviewing and improving AI-generated code.
* Shipping quickly without creating a maintenance disaster.
Requirements:
* Strong Python, TypeScript, or equivalent experience.
* Strong engineering judgment.
* Strong communication skills.
* US residency.
We’re building a national ICHRA platform at the intersection of healthcare, fintech, compliance, and AI.
Implementation is getting cheaper. Engineering judgment is not.
If you enjoy turning ambiguous business problems into production systems, owning outcomes, and shipping quickly without creating a maintenance disaster, we’d like to talk.
Kyra Health | Python/Typescript | Remote (USA) | Full Time
We believe there is a significant opportunity to improve healthcare quality and cost for employers, employees, and insurance companies; regulatory changes and LLMs mean it is time to build. We think we can provide a better experience for less money, and have multiple positive impacts on society. We have the idea, the funding, and the skills and knowledge to make it happen. We're looking for a few more strong engineers to help us build it.
Responsibilities
- Research, plan, scope, and design solutions to difficult problems while navigating laws, regulations, and standards in money movement and healthcare.
- Produce elegant and simple code that is architected and written for the long haul.
- Speed up overall development efforts.
- Help build a development environment and operational tooling that will be the envy of companies many times our size.
Must Haves
- Strong Python or TypeScript skills, or a strong background in another dynamic language.
- A burning desire to get things out the door and in the hands of users.
Kyra Health | Python/Typescript | Remote (USA) | Full Time
We believe there is a significant opportunity to improve healthcare quality and cost for employers, employees, and insurance companies; regulatory changes and LLMs mean it is time to build. We think we can provide a better experience for less money, and have multiple positive impacts on society. We have the idea, the funding, and the skills and knowledge to make it happen. We're looking for a few more strong engineers to help us build it.
Responsibilities
- Research, plan, scope, and design solutions to difficult problems while navigating laws, regulations, and standards in money movement and healthcare.
- Produce elegant and simple code that is architected and written for the long haul.
- Speed up overall development efforts.
- Help build a development environment and operational tooling that will be the envy of companies many times our size.
Must Haves
- Strong Python or TypeScript skills, or a strong background in another dynamic language.
- A burning desire to get things out the door and in the hands of users.
Kyra Health | Python/Typescript | Remote (USA) | Full Time
We believe there is a significant opportunity to improve healthcare quality and cost for employers, employees, and insurance companies; regulatory changes and LLMs mean it is time to build. We think we can provide a better experience for less money, and have multiple positive impacts on society. We have the idea, the funding, and the skills and knowledge to make it happen. We're looking for a few more strong engineers to help us build it.
Responsibilities
- Research, plan, scope, and design solutions to difficult problems while navigating laws, regulations, and standards in money movement and healthcare.
- Produce elegant and simple code that is architected and written for the long haul.
- Speed up overall development efforts.
- Help build a development environment and operational tooling that will be the envy of companies many times our size.
Must Have
- Strong Python or TypeScript skills, or a strong background in another dynamic language.
- A burning desire to get things out the door and in the hands of users.
Unlaunched Healthcare Startup | Python/Typescript | Remote (USA) | Full Time
We believe there is a significant opportunity to improve healthcare quality and cost for employers, employees, and insurance companies; regulatory changes and LLMs mean it is time to build. We think we can provide a better experience for less money, and have multiple positive impacts on society. We have the idea, the funding, and the skills and knowledge to make it happen. We're looking for a few more strong engineers to help us build it.
Responsibilities
- Research, plan, scope, and design solutions to difficult problems while navigating laws, regulations, and standards in money movement and healthcare.
- Produce elegant and simple code that is architected and written for the long haul.
- Speed up overall development efforts.
- Help build a development environment and operational tooling that will be the envy of companies many times our size.
Must Have
- Strong Python or TypeScript skills, or a strong background in another dynamic language.
- A burning desire to get things out the door and in the hands of users.
Spotify actually has (at least) a few hundred pools of money; one of the pools might be "Free listeners in the US", one might be "Moldovan listeners who have Spotify as a bundle with this particular cell phone provider". A fixed percentage of that money is set aside for the rights holders for the performance (master rights) and the rights holders for the music (publishing rights).
The allocated money is then passed to the rights holders, based on the percentage of listens they received within users in that pool. Individual rights holders can negotiate additional bumps, and Spotify has some exceptions for what needs to be counted.
I know that the idea that money should go from a listener directly to the bands that user listens to, instead of splitting up the pool, feels like a pretty interesting one. Unfortunately, folks who listen to a lot of music tend to listen to smaller and more interesting bands as well. This change wouldn't necessarily result in more money in the pockets of smaller artists; it's not inconceivable at all that the rich would get richer.
It's also worth mentioning that the average person who spent money on music at all, prior to the invention of streaming, spent far less annually than they spend on streaming now.
I think artists are reacting to a lot of issues. The entire music industry is built around signing absolutely disgusting contracts with deeply talented and fundamentally naive 18 year olds who are effectively replaceable by the next new thing. This is compounded by the fact that most artists don't have a relationship with Spotify; they have a relationship with their record label who has a relationship with Spotify, and the label isn't really interested in giving an artist a full accounting of what they've brought in from Spotify.
Finally, and most importantly, there is a real disconnect between the social impact of music and the actual size of the industry. There's a lot of money there, sure, but the music industry is like a professional sports league in terms of total revenue. A few superstars are going to suck up a lot of the money and not leave much for the bench players, let alone the folks three leagues down from the "show".
There are a multitude of different processes and procedures to deal with different kinds of fertility issues. It isn't uncommon to do a "fresh" transfer after a handful of days. Genetic testing is generally only going to be offered if you do a frozen transfer. Not all embryos are of high enough quality to survive being frozen, and a live transfer might be the only option.
Spotify has internal fingerprinting stuff that can handle this easily enough. The shutdown is entirely due to pressure from the record labels. It's a shame; this was a surprisingly difficult product to get off the ground, and a lot of folks put in heroic efforts to make it work.
Think about it from the artist's point of view. What financial incentive does an unknown artist have to clear samples?
On one end of the spectrum, you create a song using an uncleared sample and it goes nowhere. Nine Inch Nails never hears about your song, and neither does the public.
On the other end of the spectrum, your song goes viral and makes you one of the most popular artists in the country.
Even if Nine Inch Nails claims every cent you make from the song, you have already accomplished your goal. You're a popular artist and now have a platform.You can sell merch, sign sponsorship deals, and get paid to advertise for brands on social media. You can put out new music with all your ducks in a row and go on to have a very successful career.
Why go through the trouble of clearing your sample when the chances of your song becoming popular are very slim, and even if it does become a hit, the reward far outweighs the risk?
Outside of ethics, there is no reason for an unknown artist to clear samples when they are trying to make it in the music industry.
It should also be noted that both the creator of Old Town Road(Lil Nas X) and Nine Inch Nails are currently under Columbia records.
You make an excellent point, and even if the song goes viral they are still unlikely to make any money from the song itself, regardless of whether they cleared samples. Presumably any physical merchandise they sell is clear of anyone else's copyright.
I donate lots of money monthly to my private music trackers because it's such a superior experience for music lovers, far better than Spotify and the like. I wish the labels would let these ecosystems emerge into the light, because I'd pay $100 a month for a legitimate version of Redacted...
Pedantic nitpick: it's not just music labels, but copyright trolls/racketeers in general; music is just the industry where it's most obvious/egregious.
Maybe labels are bad, but piracy is far worse for artists -- it reduces their incentive to produce. That's why, for instance, big bands have become such an endangered species. Almost nobody can afford to hire, say, a horn section today.
Big bands were essentially killed [0] by cheaper multitrack recording, synthesizers and samplers in the 80s, when there were no such things as torrent trackers. Even the wonderful although hugely inefficient Napster was more than a decade away.
Today artists get most money from gigs, while record labels profit the most from printed music sales and royalties.
[0] The correct term should be "relegated to niche performances". If you love big bands you can indeed listen to them somewhere today, the difference being that mostly for economical reasons they're not anymore the default method used for example to make a film score.
Independent distribution is still extremely cheap and easy - there are still platforms out there that will upload music to Spotify and many others for free or for a small annual fee. Spotify offering the service directly isn't necessary for distribution to be accessible to all.
>Spotify has internal fingerprinting stuff that can handle this easily enough.
I'll admit I don't know about Spotify's inner workings but my understanding is that Spotify itself does not have its own fingerprinting algorithm. Instead, they rely on their distribution partners like DistroKid and CD Baby to use fingerprint services and prevent copyright violations. (DistroKid and CD Baby license the fingerprint algorithm from Audible Magic[1]. Google also initially licensed Audible Magic software before they wrote their own version of ContentID.)
I'm also not sure audio fingerprinting technology is enough. Even though Youtube's ContentID is a state-of-the-art algorithm with the largest fingerprint database, Google was still afraid it wouldn't be enough to satisfy the EU which is why they fought the passage of Article 13.
Maybe the EU Article 13 isn't the sole reason but it certainly gives more ammunition to copyright holders to use against Spotify's catalog of potentially unlicensed content and copyright violations.
>The shutdown is entirely due to pressure from the record labels.
Ok, let's say that the primary reason was pressure from the record labels. We need to dissect that "pressure" into smaller concepts.
To add precision to the discussion we can separate 2 different types of entities:
- record labels[2] : Universal, Sony, Warner, and EMI
- distribution partners[3] : DistroKid, CDBaby, EmuBands, etc
Look at the webpage[3] of non-record-labels that are distribution partners and they mention "protecting against infringement" and "infringement" -- 4 times. Also, Spotify's blog post[4] again mentions "protect artists from infringement".
For Spotify to offer direct uploads, they'd have to manage the extra logistical hassles of policing copyright violations that was previously outsourced to DistroKid & CD Baby.
I agree that record labels (Universal/Sony/Warner) can exert pressure... but what exactly is that pressure about? I believe it's preventing copyright infringement from crowdsourced random uploaders. If it's not about "protecting copyrights" but some other reason that's keeping record labels happy, what's that "other reason"?
Record labels are gatekeeping and defending their moat. The existence of their industry relies on friction in the music distribution system - the easier it is to release music own your own, the less money they will make.
Correct, which is why the labels try to do things like this. If the labels pressure Spotify to kill the ability for independent artists to upload their own music, then they only way you get on Spotify is to sign with a record label. And if being on Spotify is important to you as an artist, then yes, you are indeed obliged to sign with a label.
We're building software that helps employers replace traditional group health insurance with individual plans, making healthcare less expensive and easier to navigate for everyone involved. We're doing it now because recent regulatory changes and advances in AI have made it possible. We're building at the intersection of healthcare, fintech, compliance, and AI.
Implementation is getting cheaper; engineering judgment is not.
We're looking for engineers who enjoy turning ambiguous problems into production systems, working across product and architecture, reviewing AI-generated code, building leverage through automation, and shipping quickly without creating a maintenance disaster.
Strong Python or TypeScript experience (or equivalent), good judgment, and good communication are more important to us than checking every box. US residency required, with a preference for candidates in the Eastern Time Zone or nearby.
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