Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Counsel Health· Engineering
Hybrid (New York Office (Flatiron)), Hybrid (Boston)$185k - $225kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Senior Backend Engineer focused on API surfaces, retrieval and data modeling for AI-powered healthcare platform. Part of Platform & Integrations, building core primitives, external APIs, health data models, and enterprise integrations to scale AI-driven clinical workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve our external API and embedded product layer with long-term stability, disciplined versioning, and enterprise-grade craftsmanship
- Evolve our agentic retrieval harness to support patient and clinical search across structured and unstructured data, with strict permission and audit guarantees
- Build reusable platform primitives that let external partners embed and extend our AI capabilities, so every integration adds lasting platform leverage
- Contribute to core data models that unify structured health records, unstructured inputs, and high-frequency time-series signals
Qualifications
- 5+ years building production backend systems, ideally in high-growth environments
- Experience designing and maintaining external-facing APIs used by customers or partners
- Strong data modeling instincts, particularly around time-series or high-frequency data
- Experience working with distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures
- Comfort contributing to greenfield architectural design while shipping pragmatically
Skills
Required:API design and software architectureData modeling (time-series/high-frequency)Distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental
- 401K
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental Leave
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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