Senior Backend Engineer, Ambient AI
About the role
Senior backend engineer role on the Ambient AI team within Commure/Athelas, building AI-powered healthcare platform components including real-time clinical documentation, AI-driven billing automation, and a clinical intelligence platform that uses live patient context.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the most advanced healthcare platform in the country
- Scale infrastructure that supports the largest health systems in the country
- Be a part of a fast-paced team that celebrates fast execution and decisions
- Work across the entire software stack
- Work with a stack that includes Python, Flask, Django, FastAPIs and other frameworks
- Work directly with customers to solve their issues daily
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience
- 4+ years of professional software development experience
- Experience with Python, Flask, Django, FastAPI (note: listed as FastAPIs in description)
- Experience shipping software quickly in fast-moving environments
- General understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs
- Strong leadership skills
- Highly motivated to grow
Skills

About Athelas
Extensible, Integrated Technology that Simplifies Health Systems
At Athelas, powered by Commure, our mission is to simplify healthcare. We have bold ambitions to reimagine the healthcare experience, setting a new standard for how care is delivered and experienced across the industry. Our growing suite of AI solutions spans ambient AI clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, revenue cycle management and more — all designed for providers & administrators to focus on what matters most: providing care. Healthcare is a $4.5 trillion industry with more than $500 billion spent annually on administrative costs, and Athelas is at the heart of transforming it. We power over 500,000 clinicians across hundreds of care sites nationwide – more than $10 billion flows through our systems and we support over 100 million patient interactions. With new product launches on the horizon, expansion into additional care segments, and a bold vision to tackle healthcare's most pressing challenges, our ambition is to move from upstart innovator to the industry standard over the next few years. Healthcare's moment for AI-powered transformation is here, and we're building the technology to power it. Come join us in shaping the future of healthcare.
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