Background

At Yuzu, we’re building the next-generation health insurance company. We are NOT building a digital brokerage or an AI wrapper - we are going deeper to build the foundational infrastructure required to power tomorrow’s health plans. We believe that software can unlock the ability to build health insurance that is affordable, adaptable, and scalable. Yuzu’s platform will be core to this future.

So how does this actually work? Over 70% of employer-sponsored health plans are self-funded, meaning the employer acts as the insurer and directly covers employees' healthcare costs. This allows companies to customize benefits, gain flexibility, and save money. Self-funded employers partner with a Third-Party Administrator (TPA) to handle the behind-the-scenes plan administration, like processing claims and managing benefits.

The TPA industry is a $500bn sleeper industry that has historically been seen as a services business, bogged down by manual processes and legacy systems (for context, our team couldn’t even access these on our Macs).

Yuzu is a vertically integrated & tech-enabled TPA, currently servicing thousands of employees. We differentiate by helping innovative health plans come to life by facilitating new ways to pay for and access healthcare covered by insurance. Yuzu’s goal is to make it as easy for any business to create and manage a custom health plan as it is to create a storefront on Shopify.

We’re backed by top VC firms and 10+ unicorn founders, including leaders at Stripe, OpenAI, Brex, Deel, Mercury, and Notion, and we’re building a formidable team to tackle the massive opportunity ahead.

Role

Yuzu’s top priority is to ship good software fast. In the last year, engineering headcount quadrupled and our engineering team mitosed into teams. Platform’s mandate is to continue to make it fast, easy, and safe to build Yuzu. If our claims processing volume (or our commits to source control) grow by 100x, we want our systems—and the way we build and operate them—to scale gracefully.

Platform’s customer is the rest of engineering. We are looking for a product-minded engineer who will specialize in platform at Yuzu. You will ship application code, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling while working closely with the product teams that rely on them. Platform’s mandate is to identify and close gaps in performance, developer experience, and overall quality before they slow Yuzu down.

What We’re Looking For

Finds the Right Path

Different teams often have legitimate but competing needs. You help teams make decisions that hold up as Yuzu grows. Sometimes the right answer is to help one team solve an immediate problem; other times it is to step back and build a shared solution. You can gather input from the right people, make tradeoffs visible, and take responsibility for setting a direction where there is no existing playbook. When you establish a standard, you make it easy to follow without creating friction.

Multiplies Other Engineers

Platform should give other engineering teams more leverage. You care about safe defaults, clear interfaces and documentation, and meaningful observability. You create simple, understandable systems that other engineering teams can extend.

Builds Practical Systems

You start from a real bottleneck, build the smallest useful solution, and use evidence to improve it. You avoid both one-off work and premature abstraction.

Requirements

Curious > Experienced

Many parts of Yuzu are a niche within a niche (e.g., Cash Pay). We don’t expect prior experience in our industry or tech stack, and you do not need to have worked on a platform team before. We do care that you are excited to learn about unfamiliar systems, can identify opportunities for impact, and share what you learn with others.

AI-Native

You use AI to accelerate your own work and are excited to help us discover what high-leverage software engineering looks like today. You care about maintaining consistency and quality as AI increases the pace of change, and you are excited to build CI systems that keep up.