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 effortlessly—so 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” role—it'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 current 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-driven—excited 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 founders—zero 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

📌 Software Engineer (IITs only) (Dehradun)
🏢 Ocean Friends
📍 Dehradun