Backend Engineer, Ambient AI
About the role
Backend Engineer role on Commure's Ambient AI team, building AI-powered healthcare solutions across real-time documentation, billing automation, and clinical intelligence; focus on scalable backend infrastructure and collaboration with clinicians and customers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the most advanced healthcare platform in the country
- Help 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, FastAPI 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
- Professional software development industry experience
- [Preferred] Strong Backend Programming Skills
- [Preferred] Experience in environments where you have to ship quickly. We move fast.
- General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Excitement to work in a high impact field with a builder attitude!
- Experience building production environments
- Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs
- Extremely motivated to grow
- Strong leadership skills
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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