Senior Software Engineer
About the role
Brighterway is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale production systems across frontend, backend, and ML-adjacent workflows for AI-powered medical record review in workers’ compensation.
Responsibilities
- Production frontend applications
- Backend systems and APIs
- ML-adjacent workflows (pipelines, inference orchestration, data quality)
- Scaling, reliability, and system design decisions
- Make architectural decisions
- Improve reliability, observability, and performance as volume scales
- Identify tech debt before it becomes a bottleneck
- Help set engineering standards and mentor more junior engineers
- Front-end: build and maintain complex data-heavy web interfaces, use React (TypeScript), state management, component systems, design workflows for reviewing large medical record datasets, collaborate with ops/QC/product
- Backend: design and maintain backend services and APIs (Python preferred), own data models and API contracts, handle high throughput and async processing, work with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS)
- ML-Adjacent/Data: integrate with ML inference pipelines, tooling around quality control, auditing, confidence scoring, human-in-the-loop review, collaborate with ML engineers on schema and deployment
Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack experience across frontend and backend in production environments
- Strong backend experience (Python preferred)
- Experience building and maintaining React-based frontends (TypeScript preferred)
- Comfort designing APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows
- Experience operating systems at scale and handling production incidents
- Ability to reason through tradeoffs and make pragmatic architectural decisions
Skills
Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity
- Real ownership and influence over product and technical direction
- Work directly with founders on mission-critical systems

About Brighterway
Streamlining the record review process for physicians in medlegal…
At Brighterway, we use AI to speed up the medical record review process for physicians in medlegal exams. Physicians spend hours reviewing thousands of pages of medical documents– our technology highlights the information that is most relevant to a doctor's specialty, streamlining their review process and saving them time. Brighterway structures and deduplicates disorganized medical records (PDFs) and extracts the content that is medically relevant and related to a doctor's specialty, so they can focus on what matters most.
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