Lead Software Engineer

Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
Full-time
December 23, 2023

About Ubie

Ubie develops and operates products that support people involved in healthcare and those receiving healthcare with the mission of "To develop a healthcare guide for everyone".

There are many challenges in the medical field today that hinder people from receiving medical care. For example, there is an excessive workload of healthcare professionals. There are uncertainties in the content of patient interviews and medical records due to the nature of the language, and this places a burden on the doctors who read and write them. In addition, the workload on the medical staff is enormous because a lot of manual documentation works are needed. These workloads are not only lowering the quality of life of medical staff but also leading to problems such as not being able to provide sufficient clinical education in the field, patients losing the opportunity to find the right treatment.

Our Product

Ubie - AI Health Assistant digitizes the entire process from the interview to the consultation. The system not only digitizes but also uses an algorithm supervised by physicians to ask questions tailored to each patient's symptoms without excess or deficiency. This will not only reduce the workload of doctors by reducing the time required to create medical records but also improve the medical field from multiple perspectives, such as enabling more accurate and fulfilling consultations between patients and doctors and improving the patient's medical experience.

Your Role

Product development of Ubie - AI Health Assistant products for Singapore/APAC

Qualifications

Experience developing web applications in a team
Knowledge and development experience of at least one of the following: Kotlin, Java, Ruby, TypeScript
Experience and knowledge of relational database management systems (RDBMS)
Proficient English

Preferred Skills

Experience developing and improving business-to-business products
Growth hacking knowledge or experience
Experience writing code in a fast-paced startup environment
Operational knowledge of Google Cloud Platform / Kubernetes, etc
Development experience with front end frameworks such as Vue/Nuxt, React, Angular, etc
Development experience with front end frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Spring Boot, etc
OSS contribution / developer community experience (GitHub, etc)
Experience developing products for overseas market

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About Ubie

Ubie is a med-tech startup founded by a doctor and an engineer. Their goal is to help guide patients to the right treatment at the right time using technology.

They accomplish this with a pair of products: the first is an AI-powered medical interview system (“Ubie”) in use by hundreds of prestigious medical institutions across Japan and Singapore. They pair this with a separate patient-facing app that helps users determine what ailment they may be facing by analyzing their symptoms from home.

Ultimately the use of their products enables hospitals to streamline their outpatient workflow using AI and helps doctors allocate their time as efficiently as possible. Needless to say, this is absolutely crucial given the COVID-19 pandemic and Japan’s aging population.

Ubie also collaborates actively with partners outside of medicine (life sciences, wellness) to develop an ideal health ecosystem. In 2020 Ubie received the “Japan Service Award” for innovations in reforming the work style of doctors.

The company showed their commitment to helping people when the COVID-19 pandemic began: they made their flagship product 100% free for over a year. Their product helps improve the efficiency of doctors’ tasks, so it’s effective in helping prevent the medical system from getting overwhelmed.

Ubie also received additional funding of nearly $20 million in 2020, and took their first step toward global expansion — they set up an office in Singapore. With many cultural and geographic similarities to Japan, this was a logical next step for the firm in their goal to expand throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Ultimately Ubie hopes to impart their vision, “Hello, Healthy World”, to all of the world’s people.

Ubie’s expertise has even been recognized by the Japanese government. JETRO (Japan’s External Trade Organization) selected Ubie to help them in their efforts toward achieving digital transformation in the Asia region.

They plan to continue to focus on improving both their consumer and hospital-facing products starting with their AI disease prediction engine and keep building more products.

So if you want to work on a product that can make a real impact on society, consider applying to Ubie.

Japanese Language Policy
Japanese is not required for engineers, but it is desirable. As a customer-centric company building products for Japanese customers, Japanese skills are required for designers in order to do users research, product discovery etc.
Paid Leave
Ubie awards 14 days of PTO upon joining the company (for full-time employees). They have additional holidays for summer, year-end holidays, Golden Week and various other situations (congratulation and condolence leave, maternity leave etc).
Benefits
💹 Employee stock option plan

💻 New tech gear (choose your preferred PC, monitor and tools)

👩‍🎓 Skill development support

🏠 Remote work allowance

💛 Support for attending conferences

💜 Seminar participation support

📕 Book purchases

👶 Shorter work hours for employees taking care of children

👶 Parental Leave

👩‍🏫 Language Learning Support

💺 High-spec Ergohuman chairs

🧡 Commitment to helping members be productive

💟 Social security / insurance benefits included

🏥 Healthcare insurance

🚃 Commuter allowance
Remote Work
Ubie is a remote-first company.

Engineers are free to work from anywhere in Asia / Oceania (to ensure overlap with the JST time zone). Everyone’s free to work 100% remotely, or you can work from the company’s Tokyo office (as long as there’s no state of emergency in effect).

Ubie’s committed to their remote work style, so they intend to keep it in place even once COVID-19 is no longer a concern.

There may be times when those who are able to come to the office — and it’s safe to do so — are asked to join in-person meetings. For example, monthly business progress sharing meetings or quarterly off-sites may be held, but these meetings will be infrequent.
Work style
Ubie has adopted a flex time system with no core time.

They work sustainable 8-hour days and aim to be the most comfortable workplace among venture start-ups in Japan.

They have no set start or finish times — it’s completely flexible. Each member is free to choose their own hours, but pretty much everyone’s offline by 7pm or so. Ubie wants to optimize for output, not time spent.

The business side of the company works slightly more regular hours, usually 10:00 to 7:00PM, but many engineers prefer to work in the morning or later at night. Some part-time members have other commitments so they work on Ubie projects outside of normal work hours.
Blogs:
- Ubie Blog (written in Japanese)
Six talent requirements in Ubie

1. Zero base thinking

Put aside past experience and conventional wisdom to build optimal solutions from scratch.

2. Learning animal

A passion for continuous learning and application of knowledge in problem solving.

3. Action-oriented

The ability to design actionable tasks and execute them, regardless of methodology, to achieve high value business goals.

4. Sense of company ownership

See things from a company-wide perspective, discover the most pressing problems, and quickly solve them in ways that most benefit the entire company.

5. Critical thinking

Cut through the noise to identify the essence of things. Think and communicate in a structured, efficient manner.

6. Speak your mind, be constructive

Speak candidly and move things forward. Achieve positive effects with your words. Be willing to accept frank communications from your peers.