Staff Backend Engineer
About the role
Staff Backend Engineer role at Commure/Athelas focusing on building and scaling backend systems for healthcare AI platform. You will influence roadmaps, work across the stack, and collaborate with product, design, and clinical experts to deliver scalable, secure interfaces and services in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
Responsibilities
- Influence and craft the roadmap for teams, ensuring technical excellence and an engineering organization that scale reliably with the business
- Be a part of a tremendously fast-paced team that celebrates large ambition and making decisions quickly
- Work across the entire technology stack, including but not limited to Python, Go, FastAPI, Flask, and other frameworks
- Lead technical planning and execution for new features, balancing technical feasibility, usability, and business impact
- Design and refine systems to enforce best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to translate requirements into intuitive and efficient UI solutions
- 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
- Professional experience in software development industry experience
- Strong Backend Programming Skills (We use Python and Go)
- General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills and a history of demonstrated resourcefulness
- Track record of making successful architectural decisions to deliver multi-month, high-impact projects
- Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in environments where you have to ship quickly. We move fast and deploy daily.
- Excitement to work in a high-impact field with a builder attitude!
- Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs
- Growth mindset and a motivation 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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