Engineering at Garner
Engineers at Garner solve tough healthcare data challenges, build products impacting millions, and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. We value ownership, learning, and collaboration, without corporate red tape.
Our tech analyzes billions of medical records to rank healthcare providers objectively and makes these insights available for everyday users. Your work here improves healthcare — one line of code at a time.
What You Would Do At Garner
At Garner, you'll own projects end-to-end and drive innovation daily:
Compute billions of insights on healthcare outcomes across the country, and need cutting-edge solutions to make this efficient, performant, and reliable.
Safeguard sensitive health data, financial transaction backends, and AI systems for a rapidly growing company with hundreds of employees
Intelligently reimburse patients for critical healthcare costs, which need to be fast, accurate, and secure.
Build polished mobile and web products with seamless native experiences, high-performance APIs, and AI-driven intelligence to deliver life-changing insights.
Build research tools for our data scientists and medical researchers to convert cutting-edge research into verified, production-ready insights.
Build scalable, composable systems that can keep up with our business, which has doubled every year since our founding.
“I was really excited at the chance to build out our Referrals product from zero to one with a couple of other fantastic engineers.”
“I worked on improving search, which is a core piece of the Garner product. I improved the full text search for care goals, improved fuzzy match searches, added the ability to search from your current location on mobile devices, and built a system for storing and displaying online booking links.”
“This is the first place I’ve been where we’re using Kubernetes to its full potential. We have a service mesh and engineers who understand it. We’ve been able to write custom controllers and take the time to automate stuff with custom resource definitions. Everything is codified and automatic, and engineers can roll back and self-service.”
Our Engineering Culture
Leave it Better
We leave code, systems, and practices better than we found them, through clean commits, low-risk changes, proactive refactoring, and thoughtful use of tooling.
Evaluate Technical Ideas on Merit
We leave ego at the door to judge ideas on substance. Title or seniority aren’t inputs to technical decisions, cultivating cross-team contributions, proactive sharing, and unbiased reviews.
Ship, Learn, Repeat
We ship early and often, collect metrics from day 0, and use the data to course correct.
Automate the Boring Stuff
We are builders: when work repeats, we automate it, build self-service tools, and free ourselves to solve harder problems.
Lock it Down
Security is a first-class design principle. Our members’ and families' data are in our systems. This isn't just a professional responsibility; it's personal.
Write Docs Over Decks
We write technical information for competent engineers, and we expect technical leadership to keep up. We proactively convert oral tradition into documentation.
“The team treats even innocuous-looking security issues as urgent and important work. Considering the space that we’re in and the data that we’re working with, this is our number one responsibility. Our team has a really thorough and security-first mindset toward how we operate.”
“People go the extra mile to make sure that what we're putting out is really high quality, well understood, and that we are working toward the same thing as a team.”
“We make things 1% better. I’ve been at a lot of places where there is paralyzing tech debt. We have a really good balance where we make small steps, try little experiments, and get better to where we want to be. And that adds up over time.”
“Our leadership is really technical and interested in the specifics of the work. When we are deep diving into our projects, we’re able to screen share code and design docs, rather than Powerpoints. It’s really cool getting direct feedback from somebody who seems to get it.”
Professional Growth
Leadership Opportunities
Constantly challenge yourself by taking on next-level responsibilities in a high-growth startup.
Investment in Your Skills
Gain explicit training and practical experience through Garner’s numerous internal training programs. We also cover costs for industry certifications to boost your skills.
Rapid Career Progression
“At Garner, we promote based on merit and tangible results - not seniority or experience.” - Official Garner Promotion policy.
“Something that’s been really exciting for me is that the growth hasn’t seemed to have slowed down or stopped. In fact, I think it’s gotten faster. There are lots of chances to develop your skills, move up, and work on things that are really impactful for our members. And you get to work with a lot of passionate people, and that’s a lot of fun.”
“Throughout my career, I was working on being a better engineer and being better at my craft. And Garner is a great place to do that. I feel challenged. There are really good engineers here.”
“It was really important to me to grow my breadth of knowledge and be a generalist. There was always an opportunity to find a thing I was interested in and push myself to it. That’s helped me grow a lot as an IC and to the Staff level. There is an attitude of rewarding success with more opportunities. And now, pivoting my career to managing people, I still have support and new opportunities along the way."
Join Our Team
Ready to build, learn, and lead in a mission-driven engineering team? Join engineers passionate about data, security, and building products that matter. Explore our open roles: