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About this role
This role is an early engineering position on a small product team focused on chat and real-time features, working closely with founding stakeholders to shape core systems that will directly impact user experience and product direction.
What youll do
- Design and implement core chat and real-time features for the product.
- Collaborate with a small, cross-functional founding team to define technical direction.
- Build reliable, scalable systems and iterate quickly based on user feedback.
- Participate in architecture and design discussions to balance short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
- Own components end-to-end, including implementation, testing, and monitoring.
What Upside is looking for
- Compensation: $135k–$155k base plus equity.
- Equity: approximately 0.5%–1.5%.
- Location: remote within the U.S.; must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder — Upside cannot sponsor visas.
- Proven track record delivering production software in real-time or chat-related systems (experience level appropriate to an early/founding engineering role).
- Strong engineering fundamentals and practical experience across the stack relevant to building scalable, reliable services.
Company at a glance
NELP is a unified Nursing Excellence Leadership Platform for ANCC Designations, Governance, Clinical Ladders, and Evidence-Based Practice that builds infrastructure to capture and tie nursing excellence to measurable outcomes across health systems, driving quality and retention.
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
Leadership gets real visibility and nursing's impact becomes quantifiable and tied to patient outcomes.
There is a unified platform where every council decision, clinical ladder submission, EBP project, and designation narrative is captured, connected, and tied to measurable outcomes.
Work done once compounds across every program, signaling a collaborative and efficient work approach.
The platform aims to become a visible driver of quality, retention, and patient care across the entire health system.
Four integrated products and a shared evidence repository reflect an evidence-based, results-driven culture.
ROI of governance is proven with evidence mapped to Magnet standards, indicating a value-driven, standards-aligned culture.
The advisory board's involvement signals emphasis on governance, expertise, and thought leadership in nursing excellence.
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