Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Counsel Health
New York, Boston, United States
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 185,000 - 225,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["API craftsmanship","System design","Ownership","Modeling","Operational excellence"]

Own core backend primitives for an AI-native healthcare platform, partnering with enterprise integrations on a Platform & Integrations team. Design and evolve external APIs and embedded layers with stable versioning, build agentic retrieval for patient/clinical search with permission and audit guarantees, and contribute to data models unifying structured records, unstructured inputs, and longitudinal time-series signals. Help scale distributed systems that power AI-driven clinical workflows.

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Counsel Health
Counsel Health
2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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Job Summary

Own core backend primitives for an AI-native healthcare platform, partnering with enterprise integrations on a Platform & Integrations team. Design and evolve external APIs and embedded layers with stable versioning, build agentic retrieval for patient/clinical search with permission and audit guarantees, and contribute to data models unifying structured records, unstructured inputs, and longitudinal time-series signals. Help scale distributed systems that power AI-driven clinical workflows.
Location: New York, Boston, United States
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and evolve external APIs and an embedded product layer with long-term stability and disciplined versioning
  • •Develop agentic retrieval to enable patient and clinical search across structured and unstructured data with permission and audit guarantees
  • •Build reusable platform primitives that let external partners embed and extend AI capabilities
  • •Contribute to core data models that unify structured records, unstructured inputs, and high-frequency time-series signals

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 185,000 - 225,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kPaid LeaveParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years building production backend systems in high-growth environments
  • •Experience designing and maintaining external-facing APIs used by customers or partners
  • •Strong data modeling skills, especially for time-series or high-frequency data
  • •Experience with distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures
  • •Comfort contributing to greenfield architecture while shipping pragmatically
Experience:5+ yearsHealthcareAI-enabled healthcareDistributed systems
Skills:API craftsmanshipSystem designOwnershipModelingOperational excellence
Tech Stack:AIRetrievalRAGExternal APIsTime-series

Company Brief

Counsel Health
AI-enabled, physician-supervised virtual care company that provides an enterprise-grade front door to healthcare for payers, employers, and partners, combining medical AI with in-house physicians to deliver immediate, personalized medical guidance and reduce high-cost claims.
Industry: HealthTech
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2023
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