Yuzu Health is a Series A funded startup aiming to rebuild health insurance from the ground up by providing a platform for companies to create their own custom health plans. They handle the entire backend, from member portals and claims adjudication to invoice automation and ID card printing. Yuzu currently serves over 1,000 employers and is experiencing rapid growth, backed by prominent investors.
What they want, where you stand, and the exact résumé edits to qualify.
Biggest lever: Lack of specific health insurance domain knowledge and onsite requirement in NYC.
A starter prompt for Claude Code, what you'll need, and how to reach them.
As a highly skilled Fullstack Engineer, your task is to design and develop a secure, compliant, and scalable Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a custom health plan administration platform. This MVP should focus on the core functionality of a secure member portal for plan enrollment and basic benefits overview, and a rudimentary HR portal for managing enrolled employees. The platform must be built using Next.js 16 App Router, React 19, Tailwind v4, and Neon Postgres on Vercel. Ensure robust security, data privacy (e.g., mock HIPAA-compliant data structures), and a clear path for future expansion into claims adjudication. Your initial output should include the project structure, key components for the member and HR portals, database schema for member and plan data, and authentication flows. For the MVP, focus on enabling users to sign up, view their plan details, and for HR to add/remove employees and view their plan enrollments. Emphasize a clean, intuitive UI/UX for both portals. Include a build/verify gate by setting up a local development environment and demonstrating basic user registration and data display.
Yuzu Health (yuzu.health, Series A) | Location: New York City (Flatiron) | ONSITE Pitch: Yuzu is not a wrapper, point solution, or integration on top of something. Our platform makes it easy for anyone to create their own health plan from scratch. That means our tech handles everything from the member/HR portals, claims adjudication, invoice automation, member support tools, to even printing and sending out ID cards. Why: We're rebuilding health insurance from the ground up. We currently serve over 1,000 employers, and we're growing extremely fast (like over 10x last year fast)! Investors: We're well funded with investors like General Catalyst, Chemistry, Anthropic, Lachy Groom, Neo and founders from startups you know like Notion, Brex, Deel, and Mercury. Roles: We're hiring engineers for in-person work over here at Yuzu's HQ in Chelsea, NYC. Primary need is for Fullstack/Product Engineers but we're also looking for a Data Engineer, a Backend Engineer and a Product Designer. Job board here - https://yuzu.health/careers You can check out our old office in our MTV cribs office tour (we just moved to a bigger space so need to do a new one) - https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn
Research key concepts in US health insurance (claims processing, HIPAA, common data models) to understand the domain challenges. This is a crucial prerequisite for roles in this space. No specific 'build' project recommended here given the core gap is domain knowledge and the onsite requirement.
Standard Next.js deployment
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Standard JavaScript runtime
Deep dive into legal and compliance aspects – 1-2 weeks of focused study
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Email Kev at kev@yuzu.health directly as specified in the hiring post.
“I'm a solo operator specializing in fast-paced full-stack development with AI coding tools. While my current focus isn't health insurance, I'm deeply impressed by Yuzu's mission and rapid growth. I'm keen to learn more about the specific technical challenges you're facing and explore how my expertise in building robust, scalable platforms could align with your engineering needs for key roles like Fullstack/Product Engineer.”
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