Counsel Health

Counsel Health

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

New York Office (Flatiron) · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Distributed SystemsRESTRAG

About the role

  • We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help define the future of AI-powered, human-led healthcare.
  • This role is central to scaling our platform: supporting enterprise healthcare clients, powering AI-driven clinical workflows, and keeping distributed systems correct and reliable.
  • Much of this is greenfield, especially how we model and operationalize longitudinal health data from wearables and external systems.

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
  • Cares deeply about API craftsmanship and long-term system design
  • 5+ years building production backend systems, ideally in high-growth environments
  • Comfort contributing to greenfield architectural design while shipping pragmatically
  • We are optimistic as we build the future of care delivery from first principles.
  • We optimize for the company, not functions.

Requirements

  • Has a track record of maintaining and leveling up operational excellence across engineering organizations
  • Experience working with distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures

Compensation

  • Competitive salary + equity

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave
  • Contribute to core data models that unify structured health records, unstructured inputs, and high-frequency time-series signals

Company info

  • Has built complex systems that external customers rely on
  • Experience designing and maintaining external-facing APIs used by customers or partners
  • We are clinicians 1st, technologists 2nd.

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