Relevant Healthcare careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Relevant Healthcare builds a data, reporting and population health platform for community health centers, the federally funded clinics that provide primary care, dental care and mental health services to poor and underserved communities across the United States. The platform pulls data from the EHR, cleans it up, and turns it into dashboards, reports and clinical tools: closing gaps in care, reducing no-shows, automating text messaging, integrating payer data, stratifying patients by risk, and simplifying UDS and grant reporting. Unusually, it exposes its backend data warehouse so technical users can run their own queries or hook up tools like Tableau or R, and a services team provides hands-on analytics consulting alongside the software.

Founded in 2015 and headquartered at 11 Park Place in New York City, Relevant is bootstrapped and profitable with no outside investors, and says it is growing at an intentionally sane pace rather than a rocketship pace. As of October 2026 the platform is used by more than 90 health centers covering more than 10 million patients, and the team is about 25 people. In 2021 the company sold its care management product, Relevant Health Homes, to Foothold Technology so it could focus entirely on health center analytics. Customers speak warmly on the record: the CEO of Open Door Family Medical Centers says "My doctors love Relevant. Nothing we've seen is as elegant or easy to understand."

Brandon Hamilton, Co-founder and CEO. Began his career at a maternal and child health NGO in Calcutta, India on a Fulbright Fellowship, then worked with federally qualified health centers in every data-centric role available, from solo analyst to manager of a data and analytics team, before co-founding Relevant in 2015. A philosophy graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, he lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Jacob Hodes, Co-founder, advisor. Spent most of the past decade building Relevant and is now listed on the team page as a co-founder and advisor rather than an operator. Before Relevant he was a journalist, best known for a long Cabinet magazine feature on the history of the shipping pallet.

The company pitches the mission first: community health centers are the primary care safety net, serving more than 30 million patients a year who are disproportionately low-income, uninsured and publicly insured, and working at Relevant means supporting the doctors and care teams who treat them rather than an insurance company. The jobs page is explicit that there is no venture capital involved, linking to a New Yorker piece on its distorting effects, and frames the company as building for long-term impact.

The benefits are concrete and published: 11 company holidays (including April Fools' Day) plus 4 weeks of vacation, an experiment with shorter work weeks that gives the team 18 Fridays off this year, health insurance with 99 to 100% of premiums covered, a 401(k) with a 3% employer contribution whether or not you contribute, 30% of equity allocated to employees, a MacBook Pro, home office stipends and an unlimited books budget. The Lead Engineer posting adds a significant equity package and describes the PTO policy as approaching European levels.

Relevant describes its engineering culture as low ritual: deep work and autonomy over predigested tasks, where you are handed a domain problem and the latitude to solve it rather than a spec. Development runs in alternating 6-week cycles and 2 or 3 week cooldowns where engineers manage their own time and priorities. The company says it secretly cares as much about building a delightful place to work as anything else, which it defines as kind, self-aware colleagues, meaningful goals, clearing away unnecessary meetings, alternatingly serious and frivolous lunch presentations, and occasionally hanging out with tiny pigs.

The jobs page also promises a healthy perspective: the company says it is serious and ambitious but skeptical of tech saviorism, and that you will not be subjected to inflated ideas about the importance of Relevant, or tech generally, relative to the broad landscape of US healthcare. The whole company is 100% remote across the US and Canada with twice yearly retreats.

There is no ATS; you apply by emailing jobs@relevant.healthcare with the role in the subject line, a resume, something that shows your work (a GitHub profile or blog), where you found the role, and a specific pass phrase from the posting to show you read it. As of October 2026 the open roles are a Lead Engineer and two Senior Health Center Analytics Consultant positions. The Lead Engineer posting asks for 5+ years of professional experience, comfort with autonomy, strong writing (architecture docs, wiki entries, PR descriptions), a positive attitude toward AI tooling, and a genuine interest in health equity; Rails, React, d3.js, GraphQL, GCP or Terraform experience is nice to have but not required. Applicants from groups under-represented in tech are explicitly encouraged to apply.