Our Story
At Gaia, we’re on a mission to make IVF more accessible for more people. With a better way to pay for treatment, a backup plan if it doesn’t work, one-on-one support along the way, and access to a community that just gets it, we’re here to offer the IVF experience we wish we’d had. We believe that everyone who wants a family should have the chance to try.
Gaia is a revolutionary way to manage the financial toll and risk associated with fertility treatments. Members begin a new cycle for as little as an upfront protection fee, and only pay for their treatment when they have a child — nothing if they don’t. Each plan is personalized and underpinned by a proprietary clinical model predicting treatment outcomes. Launched in 2022 in the UK, Gaia has been recognized in Bloomberg, Wired, and FastCo.
Our Company Values
Because we’re building in an extraordinarily complex space, we need to be unapologetically demanding and single-minded in the pursuit of our goals, while going out of our way to support people. Four values drive everything we do at Gaia:
Them, not you: Do right by our members, be kind, and take one for the team.
Drive or get out of the way: Identify problems, take initiative, and step out of your lane.
When in doubt, be brave: It’s the only way to bring about change.
Be extraordinary at what you do: Pursue your craft with excellence and seriousness.
The role:
We are looking for passionate engineere to build the financial platforms for our insurance and lending products. You will work on features and services that reduce the financial stress and burden of fertility treatments and increase operational efficiency.
As a Product Engineer/Fullstack Software Engineer, you will be responsible for shipping innovative features and solutions at breakneck speed. If you are someone who loves solving problems for customers, cares about software engineering as a craft, and finds thrill in building startups, we want to talk to you.
What you will own:
- Designing and building scalable software to deliver a world class digital experience to our customers, integrating complex financial processes (like underwriting, insurance, risk scoring, loan servicing, payments)
- Scoping and leading technical projects, laying the groundwork for our products to iteratively evolve, scale and deliver outcomes
- Making effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and technical feasibility
- Collaborating closely with our product, design, ops and data teams to prioritise and build solutions and deliver customer and business outcomes
- Improving the developer experience and quality of our systems by investing in tooling, infrastructure, code quality, automated testing and observability
- Setting the engineering culture with the rest of the team by defining how we should work as a team, set standards for quality, and improve the speed of engineering execution
You’ll be great for this role if you:
- You have experienced life as a full-stack engineer in a startup for over 3 years
- You are fluent in working with the JavaScript ecosystem. Bonus points if you are fluent with TypeScript (what we use)
- You are experienced in working with PostgreSQL
- You're resilient working in ambiguity while seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
- You're ready to hit the ground running with a strong technical background, including experience building high-quality code and infrastructure
- You enjoy working as part of a small, cross-functional team in close partnership with other cross-functional teams
- You prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones
- You like to take ownership of problems. Our product spans across healthcare, insurance and finance. You will need to find creative solutions and get others on board with them
- You approach understanding and solving problems holistically, not only from a tech point of view
We always prefer passion over skills. If you do not tick all of the above requirements but are excited about our mission and values, please get in touch!
How we build at Gaia:
- We work in small cross-functional teams collaborating closely across our entire business
- We believe work should be shipped and improved in small iterations with the help of early feedback from Members and internal users
- We are heavily biassed towards keeping things simple, using existing open-source technologies and not reinventing the wheel if we can’t add any value
- Our tech stack is built of strongly typed TypeScript, Next.js + React.js, Nest.js, PostgreSQL and SQS
- Our production services run on AWS and Vercel. We automate infrastructure and configuration using Pulumi and Github Actions
- Our observability stack is built up of Cloudwatch, Grafana and Sentry
Throughout the interview process, we are looking for:
- You can take on big, loosely defined projects, break them down, and deliver them in an intuitive and digestible way
- You are comfortable working in a constantly-changing environment, regularly questioning and challenging the status quo
- You are able to understand problems deeply and holistically
- You can communicate complex topics clearly and concisely
- You show the potential to mentor other engineers as the team builds
Salary + Benefits offering:
- 60k - 80k (depending on experience)
- Equity
- Private Healthcare - Vitality
- Fertility Support
- Pension - SMART
- Professional Development budget - £1000 per year
- Workplace Nursery Benefit
- Hybrid working environment - 3 days in the office (Westbourne Park)
Diversity and Inclusion
At Gaia, we believe Diverse and Inclusive teams make better products, more successful businesses and help us to be better people.
Gaia counts 38 employees spanning 10+ different nationalities. Gaia’s board of directors is composed of founder Nader AlSalim and 2 women — from Kindred Capital and Leila Zegna from KindredCapital and Terese Hougaard. Women are also well represented at the company’s C-suite level (COO, CMO, Chief of Staff) and within Gaia’s data and engineering team, a traditionally male dominated field.
We strive to create an organisation that welcomes people and does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
If you’re eager for a challenge, want to get stuck in and you're ready to make an impact on other people’s lives, apply! We aim to respond to all applicants within 1-2 weeks. There is no deadline for the application, the role will be live until filled.
