About Ocean Friends
Ocean Friends is a fast-growing, profitable healthcare tech startup focused on empowering pediatric therapy centers (Speech, OT, PT) with powerful automation, AI agents, and data-driven insights. Our mission is simple but ambitious: use technology to give every child with special needs a greater sense of purpose, progress, and joy.
We build tools that help therapists, parents, and care teams work together effortlesslyso more time goes to the child, not paperwork.
Role Overview
We are looking for IIT graduate Software Engineer (AI & Business Systems) who is passionate about using AI to make a real-world difference in children's lives. This is not a backend research or ML-only roleit's a full-spectrum technology + business + product thinking position.
You will:
- Build AI-powered agents, copilots, and automation workflows used daily by therapists and families
- Stay on the cutting edge of the AI ecosystem (agents, RAG, speech models, multimodal, reasoning engines)
- Translate business problems into elegant systems and intelligent tools
- Work deeply with founders, users, and therapy centers to understand what actually moves the needle
- Develop robust, scalable backend services (Python + GCP preferred) that power our core platform
Business understanding is nearly more important than pure technical skill.
Your superpower should be connecting therapy workflows, parent journeys, and business needs to AI capabilities.
What You will Do
- Build and maintain AI agents for scheduling, claims, parent journaling, therapist documentation, and more
- Evaluate, experiment, and integrate new AI models and tools quickly
- Design systems that combine deterministic rules with LLM reasoning
- Create delightful experiences for therapists, parents, and admin teams
Engineering
- Develop scalable microservices on GCP (Cloud Run, Firestore, BigQuery, Pub/Sub)
- Write clean, maintainable Python or TypeScript code
- Work with structured/unstructured data, PDFs, audio, and multimodal features
- Build APIs, automation pipelines, and real-time event systems
Business & Domain Understanding
- Work closely with founders and customers to understand therapy workflows
- Translate customer needs into product features
- Use empathy and curiosity to understand how your work impacts children, parents, and therapists
- Make product decisions that balance business value, ROI, usability, and technical feasibility
Who You Are
- Mission-drivenexcited about helping kids and families
- B-Tech from IIT (B, Kgp, K, D, M)
- Empathetic and comfortable talking to non-technical users
- Curious about therapy, parent journeys, and clinic operations
Why Ocean Friends
- Mission-driven team improving lives of children every day
- Work directly with founderszero bureaucracy
- Best in class compensation including equity
- Modern tech stack and an environment that embraces AI deeply
- Huge ownership over product direction and outcomes
- A profitable, growing company where your work has immediate real-world impact
