Location: Remote (Waterlily HQ is based on San Francisco, CA) About Us Waterlily uses AI to help families prepare for the largest financial and medical event in their lives, long-term care (LTC). Through comprehensive care planning and optimization, Waterlily is bending Americas multi-trillion dollar LTC cost curve.
Our Team & Culture We've built a high-performance team culture based on three core principles:
- We're deeply committed to transforming how families prepare for long-term care
- Every team member genuinely believes in our mission and understands its importance
- We prioritize work that drives meaningful impact for our customers and company
- We make decisions swiftly while remaining thoughtful and open to iteration
- We focus on execution and results rather than just effort, recognizing that input doesn't necessarily equal output
- We value team members who show unlimited potential for growth and understanding
Radical Transparency & Support
- We practice direct, honest communication while maintaining empathy and respect
- Feedback flows freely in all directions - from intern to leadership and back
- We begin meetings with brief check-ins to understand each other's context
- We create safe spaces for vulnerability and authentic collaboration
- We maintain high standards while supporting each other's growth and wellbeing
Our team comprises some of the brightest, most ambitious, playful, and friendly people youll meet. Youll be working closely with our founding Waterlily team, including Lily, Evan, and Tim, and have direct access to a support team in the Philippines.
Lily Vittayarukskul, our CEO, is a patented inventor who started college at 14, attending UC Berkeley, was working at NASA when she was 16, and lead product and engineering at IoT medical device startups for years before founding Waterlily.
Evan Ehrenberg, our COO, is a member of Forbes 30 Under 30, started college at 11, also attending UC Berkeley, and then continued on to his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience at MIT at 16 before dropping out at 21 to found Clara Health, a clinical trials SaaS platform and B2B2C marketplace, which he sold 7 years later before joining Waterlily.
Our founding engineer and data scientist, Tim Chung, holds a Masters of Computer Science from UPenn and is midway through a Data Science Masters at Georgia Tech. Tim excels in a trio of roles: data scientist, machine learning engineer, and full-stack software engineer. At his previous companies, he led teams to launch pioneering machine learning models.
How We Work
- We optimize for remote-first collaboration while maintaining high productivity
- We emphasize contextual decision-making and practical solutions
- We prioritize deep work and focused execution over unnecessary meetings
- We consistently validate that we're working on the highest-impact initiatives
- We maintain a healthy, growth-oriented mindset while pushing for exceptional results
We're looking for teammates who share our values of integrity, empathy, and intelligent hard work - people who can see beyond their immediate role to understand both company needs and customer impact.
We're seeking a talented full-stack data scientist who embodies our values of resilience, execution focus, and mission-driven innovation. The ideal candidate isn't just a skilled data scientist they're a builder who sees beyond code to understand the larger business and human impact of their work.
- You have a track record of rapidly learning new technologies and business domains
- You see challenges as opportunities and adapt quickly to changing priorities
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and can make swift, informed decisions
- You have a history of building solutions that challenge traditional approaches
- You can point to specific examples where you've used automation or AI to multiply your impact
- You focus on getting things done rather than achieving perfection on the first try
- You have experience or strong interest in leveraging LLMs and offshore teams as force multipliers
Leadership & Communication
- You give and receive direct feedback with grace and professionalism
- You can clearly explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- You're comfortable leading discussions and driving decisions
- You naturally build trust through transparency and reliable execution
Mission Alignment
- You're drawn to meaningful work that impacts families' lives
- You understand that sustained high performance requires maintaining personal wellbeing
- You're excited about joining a team that values both ambitious goals and sustainable pace
- You're genuinely interested in transforming how families prepare for long-term care
The Ideal Background While we value potential over experience, you likely have:
- Demonstrated ability to own and deliver full-stack projects end-to-end
- Experience with modern web development frameworks and cloud architecture
- Track record of improving team efficiency through automation and process innovation
- History of taking initiative and driving results without extensive oversight
We're not looking for someone who's done it all before we're looking for someone who has the raw talent and drive to help us pioneer new approaches to software development and team collaboration. If you're excited about pushing boundaries, learning rapidly, and making a real difference in people's lives, we want to talk to you.
About The Role You will be tasked with owning and scaling mission-critical features across the entire software stack. The goal will be to push beyond industry best-practices in software development by innovating new strategies that leverage LLMs and offshore teams to achieve company-defining results for a fraction of the time and cost of what other companies have previously achieved.
You will be working with our founding US-based team and report directly to our co-founder and COO, Evan Ehrenberg, and you will grow to work with and support the management of a team of 40+ in the Philippines. You will collaborate on new ideas and implement quickly to test and iterate. Many ideas will not work and will be thrown away. Many ideas will need to be imperfect so that we can implement them faster. Everything will be iterative, no challenge will be too ambitious.
You will be challenged to produce meaningful results every week. It will likely take you more than 40 hours per week to drive industry-leading results. We do not think that 80 hour weeks are sustainable or effective in the long run, and so while there may be incredibly important times where we mutually decide to be opportunistic to push ourselves to that amount of work to accomplish something very time sensitive, we expect you to generally limit yourself to 50-60 hour work-weeks. If you want to push harder we will urge you to reflect on ways to be more effective with your time so that you can dedicate your remaining time to benefit your mental and physical health.
We will be in the trenches with you, and together we will create one of the most impactful companies that will help families prepare for what has historically been one of the most devastating times in their lives so that they can face long-term care with confidence and calm.
- Product Driven Customer Success: Your mission is to surprise and delight our customers through product initiatives that go above and beyond to make Waterlily their favorite company to work with.
- Full-Stack Development Leadership: Own and architect mission-critical features across the entire software stack, from frontend React/TypeScript applications to backend Node.js services, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions that meet enterprise customer needs.
- AI/ML Integration: Design and implement innovative solutions leveraging LLMs and AI technologies to automate workflows, enhance product capabilities, and create novel approaches to software development that surpass traditional industry practices.
- Technical Architecture & Scalability: Develop and maintain AWS serverless architecture while ensuring system reliability, performance, and security at scale as we service Fortune 100 customers and major insurance carriers.
- Product Engineering: Collaborate closely with founders to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on new features, balancing speed of implementation with code quality to achieve fast market validation.
- Offshore Team Leadership: Work with and support the management of a 40+ person Philippines-based team for QA testing, establishing best practices for collaboration and implementing systems to maximize team efficiency.
- Process Innovation: Pioneer new approaches to software development by combining LLMs, automation tools, and offshore resources to achieve significant improvements in development speed and cost-effectiveness.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with various departments to identify technical solutions for business challenges, particularly in areas of customer success, sales operations, and marketing automation.
- Technical Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, and novel development approaches to enable knowledge sharing and team scaling.
Key Skills & Qualifications
- Technical Expertise:
- We know that the best data scientists will pick up whatever tools they need on the job . click apply for full job details