Job Description: Anima

Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

Anima is building an active learning operating system for all of healthcare and life sciences, aiming to maximize human wellbeing globally. We are focused on addressing critical issues in healthcare, such as delayed treatment for medical problems, long waiting times causing suffering, and the consequences of misdiagnosis or missed follow-ups on test results. Our goal is to create a 'Care Enablement' platform that automates and abstracts work at the clinic, aiming to 10x the impact of doctors and develop a superhuman personalized medicine agent.

You will be instrumental in extending our 3 existing product lines, used by millions of patients, and building new ones at the forefront of healthcare reinforcement learning and agentic AI. Your work will directly contribute to saving lives.

Company Growth & Funding

• Growth: Achieved 450% growth in 2024.
• Financials: Cash flow positive with Series B/C metrics.
• User Engagement: High user satisfaction, with most growth driven by virality and referrals.
• Funding:
  • Raised $2.5M before Demo Day in YC's W21 batch, led by Hummingbird.
  • Closed an oversubscribed Series A round of $12M in early 2024, led by Molten Ventures.
  • Have been turning down pre-emptive offers of more capital since 2024.
• Impact: Anima clinics serve 3 million lives, with approximately 20,000 people receiving care through Anima daily, and this number is growing rapidly.

Why You Might Love Working Here

• Culture: A unique hacker culture with a flat hierarchy.
• Role Definition: Roles are broad and often described as 'Product at Anima', reflecting a focus on impactful contributions beyond traditional Software Engineering.
• Team Structure: Emphasis on small, high-impact 'T-shaped' teams, fostering a 'knights of the round table' environment with significant ownership, autonomy, and direct impact on saving lives.
• Management: Zero line managers, PMs, or EMs; instead, there's an intensive focus on coaching and teaching.
• Leadership: The CEO and co-founder, Shun, is deeply involved as an individual contributor, having self-taught and built much of Anima 1.0, including the active learning patent. He still conducts hiring tech chats and builds in his spare time.
• Team Expertise: Over 80% of the product team consists of VPs, ex-technical founders, and former CTOs (internal titles are not used). The team also includes domain experts, such as full-stack clinical engineers and former MDs who joined Anima for higher leverage.
• Technical & UX Focus: Almost everyone at Anima possesses strong technical skills and a keen focus on user experience.

About Anima (Founder's Perspective)

"My entire life, I’ve been pulling on a thread that’s affected all of us in some way. Millions die every year because their medical problems aren’t treated quickly enough. Hundreds of millions suffer pain, worry and discomfort needlessly because of long waiting times. I trained as a doctor and quit out of frustration at seeing countless cases of people dying because they got misdiagnosed or didn’t get the right care plan. In one devastating incident, the healthcare system had simply forgotten to follow up about abnormal test results.

Pulling the thread led me to the health spending team at HM Treasury, responsible for deploying 100s billions into the NHS - there, I worked on workforce and system reform policy with No.10 and NHS England (most notably on forming statutory ‘integrated care systems’, which was signed into law as part of the Health and Social Care Act). Seeing the problem space at all abstraction levels convinced me that the only way to fix healthcare was to build a ‘Care Enablement’ platform that can automate and abstract away work at the clinic, and 10x doctors. Doing so would also be the path to a superhuman personalised medicine agent that could go well beyond humans, crunching tens of thousands of low level features at genome and transcriptome level."