Counsel Health - Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Requirements
• 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. • You care deeply about API craftsmanship and long-term system design. • You’ve built complex systems that external customers rely on. • You enjoy modeling messy real-world data — especially high-frequency signals — into clean, durable abstractions. • You’ve built comprehensive search or RAG production systems at scale. • You’ve helped scale early systems from 1 → 10 in a fast-paced environment. • You thrive in small, high-leverage teams where ownership is real. • You have a track record of maintaining and up-leveling operational excellence across software organizations • Our backend platform is built to support large-scale AI-driven clinical systems and enterprise integrations. • Languages: TypeScript, Node.js • Infrastructure: SQS, Temporal, AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes • Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, time-series and vector storage with GCP • We value strong engineering fundamentals over familiarity with any specific tool. If you’ve built robust distributed systems and high-quality APIs before, you’ll ramp quickly in our stack. • Role Location: Remote, Hybrid if in NYC/Boston • ----------------------------------------------------
Responsibilities
• Design and evolve our external API and embedded product layer, ensuring long-term stability, disciplined versioning, and enterprise-grade API craftsmanship. • Evolve our agentic retrieval harness to support both patient and clinical search workflows across structured and unstructured data, with strict permission and audit guarantees • Build reusable platform primitives that allow external partners to embed and extend our AI capabilities — ensuring every integration produces lasting platform leverage. • Contribute to our core data models that unify structured health records, unstructured inputs, and high-frequency time-series signals. • EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS YOU MAY WORK ON • Develop a pluggable ingestion framework that normalizes data from third-party sources into canonical internal models, with extensible adapters for new partner onboarding. • Build a stateful, multi-turn, agentic API that allows external clients to customize AI agent behavior and capabilities within their own cloud, deployment environments.
Benefits
• Impact: Be at the forefront and contribute to groundbreaking, AI-driven healthcare experiences, directly interface with execs at the world's leading tech & healthcare orgs • Growth: Significant opportunities for broad ownership and professional development within our rapidly scaling startup • Exposure: Gain hands-on experience in scaling a fast-growing healthcare technology company and directly interface with executives at the world’s leading healthcare organizations. • Compensation: Competitive salary + equity • Benefits: Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave • ---------------------------------------------------- • Patients come first. • We are clinicians 1st, technologists 2nd. We act with patient trust/safety at the center of every decision. • Innovate with optimism. • We are optimistic as we build the future of care delivery from first principles. Challenge the status quo when needed, no sacred cows. • Right answer wins. • Debate openly and pick the strongest path. We optimize for the company, not functions. We win and lose as a team. • Simplicity over complexity. • We choose clear, elegant solutions and avoid adding complexity that does not serve patients or the team. • Do fewer things, well. • We focus, and hold ourselves to the highest bar and pursue excellence in those areas. • Recruitment Fraud Notice. Counsel Health only communicates with candidates using official @counselhealth.com email addresses. We will never ask for payment or financial information during the interview process. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from Counsel Health, please contact us at [email protected]. • Counsel Health participates in E-Verify. All newly hired employees are processed through the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility.
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