Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Axle Health
Santa Monica
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5-7 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Leadership","Problem-solving"]

Senior Backend-focused software engineer to design and scale Axle Health’s logistics platform, integrating with EHR systems, optimizing service orchestration, and building secure, observable, high-performance systems for a growing healthcare SaaS platform. You’ll lead cross-functional collaboration, architect high-volume backend services, and ship developer-friendly APIs and SDKs in a fast-paced startup environment.

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Axle Health
Axle Health
9 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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Job Summary

Senior Backend-focused software engineer to design and scale Axle Health’s logistics platform, integrating with EHR systems, optimizing service orchestration, and building secure, observable, high-performance systems for a growing healthcare SaaS platform. You’ll lead cross-functional collaboration, architect high-volume backend services, and ship developer-friendly APIs and SDKs in a fast-paced startup environment.
Location: Santa Monica
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and develop platform capabilities enabling integrations with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
  • •Lead efforts to optimize service orchestration, data flow, and performance
  • •Drive high standards for security, testability, observability, and deployment automation.
  • •Architect high volume systems that will support hundreds of thousands of patients
  • •Design and maintain modern, developer-friendly APIs and SDKs and documentation

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree
  • •5-7+ years of software engineering experience
  • •Backend systems experience with Python (1-2 years) and Node + TypeScript (1-2 years)
  • •Experience designing relational database schemas and migrations for scalability, extensibility, performance, and stability
  • •Experience managing customer-facing APIs through versioning, deprecation cycles, and migration paths
Experience:5-7 yearsHealthcareSaaS
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationLeadershipProblem-solving
Tech Stack:PythonDjangoNodeTypeScriptGraphQLPostgreSQLAWSDatadogGitGithubGraphite

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Axle Health
Provides virtual musculoskeletal care and physical therapy solutions that combine telehealth, care coordination, and digital tools to help employers and health plans reduce MSK costs and improve member outcomes.
Industry: HealthTech
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: Cambridge, United States
Founded: 2018
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