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Staff Backend Engineer

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Hybrid (Multiple locations in US (Mountain View, NYC, LA, SF))Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Staff Backend Engineer at Commure (role associated with Athelas posting). Engineering-heavy position focused on backend systems for healthcare AI platform, with cross-stack responsibilities and collaboration with clinicians, product, and customers.

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 fast-paced team that makes quick decisions
  • Work across the entire technology stack, including 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 related field, or equivalent extensive experience
  • Professional experience in software development
  • Strong Backend Programming Skills (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 with technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience in fast shipping environments with daily deployments
  • Excitement to work in a high-impact field with a builder attitude
  • Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs
  • Growth mindset and motivation to grow

Skills

Required:Backend programming (Python)Backend programming (Go)GoPythonCommunication
Nice to have:FastAPI / FlaskContainers / Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)Systems design
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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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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