What we do

Fortuna Health is redefining the consumer experience for Medicaid. We’re helping millions navigate Medicaid end-to-end from eligibility and enrollment to renewing coverage. We're backed by a16z, BoxGroup, YC, and top healthcare angels.

Our product is TurboTax for Medicaid. Today, ~90M Medicaid consumers navigate glitchy websites and long paper forms. The experience is so poor that procedural reasons (e.g., form errors, missing a notice in the mail) account for a staggering 75% of dis-enrollments. We believe this can only be solved with a modern and simple UX that is fundamentally consumer-centric.

Creating Value

The problem at the consumer level produces huge downstream consequences: There's over $50B of administrative waste and lost revenue suffered by Medicaid health plans, providers, and states. By making products that consumers want to use, we unlock immense value for these players. Our vision is to become the consumer-facing digital infrastructure that powers the $800B+ Medicaid ecosystem.

Who we are

We each have multiple years of experience in healthtech — Nikita started her career at Oscar and built pharmacy solutions at Truepill (YC S17), Cydney helped scale Halo Dx from seed to series C on the ops side, and Ben was the first engineer at Juniper (YC W21) where he helped scale the engineering team to 12. We have all had direct experience with Medicaid throughout our careers and have seen firsthand the challenges that affect the population.

We started Fortuna because we care about impact — the abysmal state of the Medicaid consumer journey means that the most underserved people in America can't access the benefits that they need and are entitled to. We believe this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to dramatically improve the human condition for 90M people, and we need the help of high-throughput, growth-minded builders to make it happen.

We're building out our founding team!

What you'll do

As an early engineering hire at Fortuna, you'll play a huge role in shaping the direction and culture of the company. We work fully in-person 5 days a week out of our NYC office, and strongly believe in the value of a focused, supportive, and tight-knit team.

Your primary duty will be to build the product, which will mostly entail fast-paced engineering work. However, you'll likely wear a number of different hats as we iterate, including design, marketing, operations, and customer experience.

What we're looking for

Product Mindset
Our philosophy is that engineers should lead product. We are fundamentally building a consumer product for the masses. As such, we are looking for an engineer who is more motivated by building a great consumer-first product than by deeply exploring interesting technology.

Ownership
There's plenty of greenfield, exploratory work to be done. We need someone to be able to take an ambiguous problem and run with it. As we gain traction with specific product ideas, we would want you to truly own the whole product, not just the code.

Technical Velocity
We are looking for a rockstar engineer, someone who is nimble and can move fast while maintaining a sufficiently high level of code quality so that things don't fall apart. It's important to understand best practices and technical end goals so that trade-offs can be appropriately weighed as we are building.

Respectful Disagreement
We believe it's crucial to be able to openly disagree with anyone on the team. We are looking for someone who doesn't shy away from conflict, but is respectful and empathetic in their approach and always open to different ideas.

Humility
It's important to be able to admit when you're wrong. We are looking for a low-ego teammate who is able to take failures in stride and grow from them.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and equity ownership in the company
• Platinum health insurance plans
• Free lunch every day
• All commuter expenses covered
• $100/month wellness benefit
• Unlimited PTO

Our tech stack is currently FastAPI (Python) on the backend and Next.js/React on the frontend.

That said, we are in the early stages of the company, so nothing is set in stone. Both the product and the tech are malleable, and we are excited to engage with the fresh ideas and different perspectives that you are sure to have!