Axle Health

Axle Health

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Santa Monica HQ · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 97 days ago
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About the role

  • Some of the biggest providers in the country use our software (like Cityblock Health and U Penn Health System) to improve the utilization of their field teams by 17%+, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching.
  • We're a team of top-tier engineers and operators, backed by $14m from top investors such as Y Combinator, Pear VC, and F-Prime, applying our intellect and logistics experience to upend how home healthcare is delivered.
  • We want you to benefit from all the hard work you do in helping patients and catalyzing this shift in healthcare.

Responsibilities

  • Architect high-volume backend systems built to support hundreds of thousands of patients reliably and at scale
  • Lead efforts to optimize service orchestration, data flow, and system performance across the platform
  • Drive high standards for security, testability, observability, and deployment automation across platform services
  • Design and maintain modern, developer-friendly APIs and documentation
  • Collaborate with and provide technical leadership to other engineers, setting a high bar through rigorous code reviews and architectural guidance
  • Expertise building backend systems in multiple languages, demonstrated ability to pick up multiple backend focused languages and frameworks
  • Everyone in an organization has big ideas and we want to hear them and implement them.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 7+ years of profession software engineering experience
  • Experience managing customer-facing APIs through versioning and deprecation cycles
  • Proven ability to diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks in database-backed applications
  • Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments with a track record of operating with significant autonomy
  • Santa Monica HQ with 180 degree beach views and daily catered lunches

Skills

  • Django + Python 3
  • Node + Typescript
  • GraphQL
  • PostgresSQL
  • Datadog for monitoring and observability
  • Git / Github / Graphite
  • Claude Code and Cursor
  • Fast paced work environment geared towards professional growth
  • Get the chance to move roles within the organization to learn new skills and continue to make an impact

Compensation

  • In addition to offering a competitive salary and equity, we want to ensure every team member has the tools they need to work to the best of their ability.

Benefits

  • In addition to offering a competitive salary and equity, we want to ensure every team member has the tools they need to work to the best of their ability.
  • All of our employees have equity compensation.
  • We want you to benefit from all the hard work you do in helping patients and catalyzing this
  • shift in healthcare.
  • We are committed to your Wellness:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision
  • Flexible PTO and sick days
  • Commuter benefits
  • Design and develop platform capabilities that enable integrations with Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems and power Axle Health's broader ecosystem

Company info

  • Axle Health builds AI scheduling and workforce management software to empower in-home healthcare providers to deliver exceptional, personalized care right where patients feel most comfortable-at home.
  • Our platform includes proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, a mobile app for field staff, an operations dashboard for office teams, engagement and booking tools for patients, and a wide range of integrations and external APIs for modular access.
  • We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team; the group responsible for the core backend systems and infrastructure that power Axle Health's scheduling and workforce management platform.
  • This is a foundational role: you'll design and build the platform capabilities that every other team builds on, with a direct impact on reliability, performance, and developer experience across engineering.
  • Our ideal candidate brings deep backend expertise, strong instincts for system design, and a track record of owning platform-level problems end to end.
  • You care about doing things right (not just shipping) and you bring the same rigor to API design, observability, and security as you do to core feature work.
  • Whether you've built web-scale infrastructure at a growth stage company or scaled a startup's platform from the ground up, we want to hear from you.
  • Monthly team events, dinners, & happy hours
  • We are committed to your Ownership:
  • We are committed to your Growth:
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