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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 platform for ANCC designations, governance, clinical ladders, and Evidence Based Practice, creating the system of record for nursing excellence to improve patient outcomes and nurse retention across health systems.
Culture & values
You'll sit in customer calls, hear problems firsthand, and turn them into shipped product within days.
You’ll shape the product, the architecture, and the company direction from day one.
Clear communication is valued and the ability to work well with non-technical domain experts is important.
You should empathize with users and avoid overengineering for the sake of it.
It supports remote work in the United States, with a preference for candidates in San Francisco.
The work aims to have real impact by improving nurse retention and patient care across health systems.
The mission is to build a system of record for nursing excellence, making nursing impact visible and measurable.
There is a focus on fast-paced, careful development and enforcing engineering standards, CI/CD, and testing strategy.
Collaborating with customers and across four integrated products to unify programs is part of the work culture.
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