Deya careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Deya (deya.health) is building a longitudinal data layer for eye care. Its thesis, stated plainly in its job postings, is that most AI in healthcare is chasing scribes and diagnostics while almost no one captures what actually happens to patients over time. Deya's platform sits between doctor and patient: a patient app captures 4K eye images with AI-guided smartphone photography ("eye selfies"), symptom logs and treatment adherence check-ins, while an AI-powered Doctor Hub turns that stream into progress reports for the eye doctor. The model lets eye care professionals manage acute and chronic anterior segment conditions remotely and asynchronously, in a way the company says can be compensated through CPT billing.

The company launched its platform publicly in November 2025 after a period in stealth, is piloting with eye doctors and collecting real patient data, and says it already holds the largest dataset of eye images captured on smartphones. In 2026 it entered a sponsorship agreement with the Illinois College of Optometry to fund research using smartphone-acquired anterior segment images to train its clinical decision support models, with three ICO faculty investigators leading the study. The team is clinician-led, with an ophthalmologist CEO, an optometrist chief commercialization officer and in-house clinicians defining ground truth for the AI work.

Jovi Boparai, MD, Co-founder and CEO. Ophthalmic surgeon turned founder: University of Pittsburgh, Weill Cornell Medicine, ophthalmology residency at Wills Eye Hospital, then ophthalmic surgeon at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Co-founded the eye-care company CorneaCare in 2021, where he is also CEO, and started Deya in September 2023. Describes a personal journey overcoming eye problems as the root of his patient-first approach.

Carl Murray, Co-founder and COO. Deya's co-founder, platform architect and COO, and also co-founder and COO of CorneaCare alongside Boparai. Leads product and operations at Deya.

All three open engineering roles are high-ownership, zero-to-one positions on a small core team. The software engineer role shapes the technical foundation of the company across Next.js, backend services, cloud infrastructure, agentic workflows and computer vision pipelines. The mobile role owns the patient app end to end, including the camera and guided-capture pipeline that must produce clinically usable images from a handheld phone. The AI role is the technical owner of both halves of the stack: vision models trained and validated on Deya's proprietary clinical data, and LLM systems that reason over longitudinal patient records.

The unusual asset is the data: a proprietary, growing clinical dataset tied to symptoms, treatments and outcomes over time, which most research groups cannot access, plus in-house optometrists and ophthalmologists to define ground truth. Because Deya controls capture, engineers can improve the data itself rather than model around its limits. Postings list competitive salary plus equity; specific pay bands are not published.

Deya describes itself as clinician-led, and the structure backs that up: the CEO is an eye surgeon, the chief commercialization officer is an optometrist who co-founded and ran the practice management company RevolutionEHR, and clinicians work directly with engineers on ground truth and validation. The careers page emphasizes mission (every line of code moves the needle on real patient outcomes), output over location, and a team small enough that contributions are visible and opinions shape direction.

AI tooling is part of the daily development workflow, and the postings are candid about expectations: engineers should already work this way, have real opinions about where the tools earn their keep, and take full responsibility for reviewing and testing what comes out of them. For the AI role that goes further, with the job described as keeping current on model capability, running new models against internal evals, and saying when something built six months ago should be thrown out. Published perks include a conference budget and learning stipend, with compensation described as benchmarked to top health-tech companies.

As of October 2026 Deya lists three engineering roles at https://deya.health/careers/, all posted August 17, 2026 and all full-time: Software Engineer (AI x Healthcare), Mobile Engineer (React Native, Swift and Kotlin), and AI Engineer (Computer Vision + LLMs). Each is listed as NYC / Hybrid / Remote, and the careers page says most roles offer full remote flexibility. Applications go through a short form on each posting (name, email, LinkedIn or portfolio, optional resume, cover note), and the company says it responds within a few business days.

The postings ask for evidence of shipped work rather than credentials: the software role wants strong builders comfortable across frontend, backend and infrastructure with production AI/ML experience; the AI role wants production computer vision and hands-on LLM work (prompting, evals, retrieval, tool use) with rigor about evaluation in a clinical context; the mobile role wants React Native depth with the ability to drop into Swift and Kotlin for camera work. Healthcare technology and EHR integration experience is listed as a bonus, not a requirement. Interview process details are not published.