Design Engineer
About us
Corner Health is an early-stage technology company building the operating system for independent primary care. We give Nurse Practitioners (NPs) everything they need to start and run their own practices — from billing and insurance infrastructure to AI-powered workflow automation.
We’re positioned to be the fastest growing in-person primary care company ever.
Corner Health was co-founded by Lava Sunder and Anne Gifford and has raised $32.5m backed by Oak HC/FT, First Round Capital, Homebrew, Zigg Capital, Wischoff Ventures, as well as the founders of DoorDash, Commure, Grow Therapy, Kindred, Culdesac & more.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Design Engineer to design and build the patient experience at Corner Health.
Providers on Corner Health’s platform offer an entirely new model of care. Currently, 88% of patients trust a Corner Health provider’s medical guidance vs. elsewhere and patients already return at 2× the national average — not because of marketing, but because the experience actually works.
The next phase of the company is about turning that into the most thoughtful, intuitive, and human patient experience in primary care. This is not a handoff role. You won’t be polishing a legacy healthcare portal. You’ll be defining what modern primary care should feel like.
What youll work on
- Patient app (from zero): Design and build a cohesive web app spanning scheduling, chat, results, notifications, payments, and rebooking. This is a greenfield build — you'll make the foundational decisions about architecture, interaction patterns, and visual identity.
- Making healthcare legible: Insurance, billing, and clinical data are notoriously opaque. You'll turn complex, messy systems into clear, trustworthy interfaces that patients can actually understand and act on.
- Longitudinal patient experience: Primary care shouldn't end when the appointment does. As the platform matures, you'll design experiences around proactive follow-ups, care nudges, and personalized health journeys that deepen the provider–patient relationship over time.
- Reimagined patient intake: Move beyond forms into conversational, adaptive, and voice-driven intake that feels natural and dramatically improves completion and accuracy.
You'll work directly with product, operations, and the founders to translate messy, real-world healthcare workflows into elegant, opinionated experiences. You'll prototype quickly, ship production code, and refine based on real patient behavior.
As one of our earliest hires, you'll hold an already high bar on design and craft, influence the product roadmap, and shape how design and engineering work together at Corner Health.
What youre like
- You have 4+ years of frontend engineering experience with strong TypeScript and CSS chops. You've worked with component libraries, design systems, and care about interaction details (we use React, Tailwind, and React Aria)
- You ship production code and have strong visual taste — not a designer who can kinda code, but an engineer who thinks in terms of design
- You are hard-working, kind, curious, and intelligent
- You have a high degree of autonomy and can own a product surface end-to-end
- You are excited about working in a dynamic, constantly changing environment
- You are pragmatic about incorporating agents and LLMs in your work and are familiar with the ways AI excels at frontend work vs. where it comes up short
What would set you apart
- You’re excited by the idea of creating more independent medical providers
- You are product-first — you drive end-to-end execution, from understanding the problem through QAing the details
- You have experience building and maintaining visual identity and design coherence across a product
- You’re more comfortable maintaining design systems in code vs. Figma
- You empathize with users and are comfortable with good + fast over perfect + slow
- You enjoy working in-person (our office is in Santa Monica, CA); you either live in LA or are excited to move to LA
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity compensation
- Top-tier health and dental
- Health & wellness stipend
- Eligible to participate in company-sponsored 401(k) plan
What we're like
You’re joining an early-stage company - it’s important to learn more about what we’re like!
Here are some of our engineering principles - they are all important, but we’re excited for this hire to contribute to them as well.
Ship early, ship often
We prioritize frequent deployments to maintain momentum and learn quickly. Small PRs are faster to review, easier to roll back, and create positive feedback loops. We use feature flags for gradual rollouts and invest in robust CI/CD with comprehensive testing. Merging to main should be routine, not stressful.
Choose boring technologies (mostly)
We default to established, battle-tested technologies with strong ecosystem support and good LLM integration (Prisma, WorkOS, Node.js, etc). We have limited innovation tokens—spend them on problems that differentiate us or bring genuine joy to the team. Strong foundations let us move fast and experiment at the edges where it matters, whether that's core product features or fun internal tooling.
Work with the garage door up
We build transparency into our development process. PRs are reviewed by the team—not just for code quality, but to share knowledge and create visibility into what we're building. We document decisions, share work-in-progress updates, and make our process discoverable. This enables early feedback, prevents duplicate work, and helps everyone learn from each other's approaches. Great ideas emerge from collision, not isolation.
Code as documentation
In the LLM era, clear code, consistent patterns, and well-documented systems are force multipliers. We document our patterns, conventions, and common workflows. We automate repetitive tasks through scripting and templates. When AI tools repeatedly make the same mistakes, we update our rules and guidelines. Enforcing consistency today saves hours tomorrow.
Own your code
LLMs are powerful tools that can accelerate development, but every line of code you submit should be code you understand, can defend, and have proven to work. When you open a PR, you're putting your name on that solution—be ready to explain how it works, why you chose that approach, and what trade-offs you considered. Use AI to explore ideas and generate starting points, but take the time to understand, refine, and truly own what you're shipping. We build trust through craftsmanship, not through volume.
We're a small team with high ownership and high autonomy. AI tools let us punch way above our weight, but we care deeply about the quality of what we ship — no vibe coding, no slop. You'll spend your days building, not waiting on approvals or sitting in meetings.
Lastly - one of our team values is “Life is short - it’s OK to laugh”. Whether it’s late night team dinners, mini golf, or just jamming on new product ideas for our customers - we work hard and have fun doing it.
Corner Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
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