About Nayya
Founded in 2019, Nayya is on a mission to connect people’s most important information, so they can thrive in their health and wealth. Powered by AI and advanced analytics, Nayya’s platform transforms complex benefits experiences into intuitive, seamless, and ongoing interactions—meeting people's real world needs. As a trusted platform and partner to leading employers, benefits solutions, and HR tech providers, Nayya unlocks long-term value through helping employees live more resilient lives. Backed by strategic investors like ICONIQ, Felicis Ventures, SemperVirens, Workday Ventures, MetLife Nextgen Ventures, and ADP Ventures, Nayya is ushering in the future of health and wealth for all.
Nayya is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, AI Applications to help design, build, and scale the core systems that power our next generation of AI-native products. In this role, you will be critical to developing Nayya’s agentic platform to serve millions of employees across their health and wealth management. You will act as a technical leader and AI business partner, translating ambiguous needs into durable, production-grade AI-native workflows that provide clarity for employees and hundreds of hours of savings for our partners.
What You’ll Do- Develop AI-native features by building and integrating LLM-powered systems for extracting, structuring, and reasoning over complex healthcare and benefits data
- Build against AI infrastructure, including retrieval pipelines (RAG), embeddings, prompt orchestration, and internal agent frameworks
- Own end-to-end systems from design, application development, AI integrations and final product delivery.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design and other functions to understand customer workflows and translate them into technical solutions
- Implement evaluation pipelines and benchmarking strategies to measure LLM performance, and design guardrails that enforce safety, accuracy, and compliance thresholds across AI-powered features
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating complex applications in production
- Experienced integrating AI/LLM-powered systems (e.g., OpenAI, Claude) into real products
- Strong proficiency with modern, object-oriented languages and frameworks (Typescript, Ruby etc)
- Comfortable completely owning backend systems and APIs and collaborating on frontend experiences
- Experience with AWS infrastructure or equivalent
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and monitoring tools
- Opinionated, adaptable, and energized by working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- Have a track record of setting technical direction and influencing engineering standards across a team
- Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
The salary range for New York based candidates for this role is $188,000- $230,000. We use a location factor to adjust this range for candidates that are located outside of geographic region of our New York office. Placement within the salary band is determined based on experience.
Nayya is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics
Skills Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience integrating AI/LLM-powered systems
- Strong proficiency with modern object-oriented languages and frameworks
- Experience with AWS infrastructure
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Nayya Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nayya and has not been reviewed or approved by Nayya.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave options are positioned as expansive, including unlimited PTO and additional time-off concepts like company “health days” and a possible sabbatical program. Time-off flexibility is presented as a meaningful component of the overall rewards package, subject to confirming how policies work in practice.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is framed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, and mental-health/EAP support. Wellness programs are also repeatedly surfaced as part of the package, reinforcing a health-forward benefits posture.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is described as including a 401(k) with an employer match. This is presented as a core, modern benefit that can materially add to total rewards depending on match terms and vesting.
Nayya Insights
What We Do
At Nayya, we believe there is a better way to choose benefits. A more transparent, less confusing way where consumers feel more confident in their decisions. We focus on decision support and benefits engagement. It’s one of the most stressful and challenging situations consumers face – and we see that as an opportunity to do good. We’re excited to deliver a new experience to consumers, where they choose their benefits through our software, data and AI engine. We are a benefits technology company that aims to bring peace and confidence to consumers as it relates to their employee benefits. Nayya is revolutionizing the way people interact with their benefits by serving as a data-driven advisor across the benefits lifecycle.
Why Work With Us
We are redefining an industry and seeking mission-driven, team oriented colleagues to join us. We empower each Nayyan to take on complex projects that will help transform how consumers choose and use benefits. We believe feedback helps us and our teams grow and transparency and cross-functional collaboration are key to success. Grow with us.
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