Engineering @ Superpower

The role

As an Engineer at Superpower, you will play a critical role in architecting and delivering the foundational technology for Superpower’s digital health platform. This is a unique opportunity for a product-minded, entrepreneurial engineer to work at the intersection of software, healthcare innovation, and human performance. You will collaborate directly with the founding team to build scalable systems and beautiful user experiences that empower users to manage their health more effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end software solutions, from front-end components to backend infrastructure.
• Collaborate with product, design, and clinical teams to shape a seamless, user-centric health platform.
• Build and maintain scalable microservices architecture and modern web applications.
• Own technical decisions and contribute to company-wide product strategy and planning.
• Establish and enforce best practices in testing, security, and performance optimization.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering workflows and infrastructure.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a focus on full stack web development.
• Deep experience with modern frameworks such as React, Node.js, Typescript, and related tooling.
• Strong knowledge of system design, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services (especially AWS/Fargate).
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Passion for healthcare, wellness, or longevity tech is a strong plus.
• Prior experience at an early-stage startup or as a founding engineer is highly desirable.
  
  

Tech Stack

• Languages & Frameworks: React, ExpressJS (Node.js), Golang (plus)
• Dev Tools: Yarn workspaces, Storybook, ESLint, Jest, Webpack
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Infrastructure as Code, GitHub Actions (CI/CD), Kubernetes
• Data: FHIR-based schema (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
• Design & Ops: Tailwind CSS, Figma, Linear, Notion, Slack
  
  

Work Location & Environment

This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco. Team members work primarily from our SOMA office, collaborating closely across disciplines in a fast-moving, highly creative, and mission-driven environment.

Why we are building this

We believe that the best people and companies of the future will be built different, putting health at the forefront of everything that they do.

Because creating world-changing products, services, and movements requires us to reach our peak potential.

Superpower is the product we’ve always wanted: a thoughtfully designed, all-in-one solution for easily managing our personal health.

It’s not healthcare – it’s Superpower.

Investors

• Forerunner Ventures (tier 1 US-based VC)
• Susa Ventures (tier 1 US-based VC)
• Cyan Bannister (first investor into Uber, early at SpaceX, former part at Founder’s Fund, regarded as one of the top angels in the world)
• Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO and angel, ex-General Partner at a16z)
• Arielle Zuckerberg (active angel, tech leader, relatively famous brother)
• Long Journey Ventures (investor in Uber, Notion, Loom, Affirm etc.)
• Shaan Puri (angel and podcast host of my first million)
• Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
• Evan Moore (Founder of Doorash; Partner at Khosla Ventures)
• Justin Mares (Founder of TrueMed)
• Dr Jordan Shlain (Founder of Private Medical, America's top concierge medicine service)
  
  

Cementing the opportunity

• The world’s biggest company will be in consumer healthcare
• Solving longevity – the most important problem of our time
• A mayo clinic executive program 2.0 in the cloud
  
  

Company Philosophies

• We are all here to genuinely do our life’s best work.
• Insanely high talent bar, never settling. A players only (see steve jobs)
• We live to work as much as we work to live. But we sustainably espouse the superpower ethos of putting health first.
• We aim to set the gold standard for team health culture on the planet - live the ethos!
  
  

🧡Culture at Superpower