Abridge
Healthcare
SeniorBackendEngineer
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“Senior Backend Engineer at Abridge. Skills: Backend development, Cloud-native applications, Data processing pipelines. Design cloud-native applications. Build cloud-native applications”
Industry & Context.
Work from SF office 3x/week, Relocation assistance available
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years software engineering experience, TypeScript/Node productivity, Deep specialization in Node.js backend development, Experience building complex Node-based systems, Experience building and deploying Temporal or Kafka at scale, Several years experience building software for regulated environment, Understand compliance tradeoffs (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST)
Nice to Have
Ability and desire to work in SF or NY, Willing to pitch in wherever needed
What You'll Do.
Design cloud-native applications
Build cloud-native applications
Support cloud-native applications
Build processing pipeline
Overhaul data storage services
Research commercial solutions
Research open-source solutions
Make build vs buy recommendations
Enhance existing systems
Add new functionality
Make quality-of-life improvements
Limit technical debt growth
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional product delivery teams; Work with product; Work with machine learning; Work with platform engineering
Full Job Description
ABOUT ABRIDGE Abridge was founded in 2018 with the mission of powering deeper understanding in healthcare. Our AI-powered platform was purpose-built for medical conversations, improving clinical documentation efficiencies while enabling clinicians to focus on what matters most—their patients. Our enterprise-grade technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time, with deep EMR integrations. Powered by Linked Evidence and our purpose-built, auditable AI, we are the only company that maps AI-generated summaries to ground truth, helping providers quickly trust and verify the output. As pioneers in generative AI for healthcare, we are setting the industry standards for the responsible deployment of AI across health systems. We are a growing team of practicing MDs, AI scientists, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers working together to empower people and make care make more sense. We have offices located in the Mission District in San Francisco, the SoHo neighborhood of New York, and East Liberty in Pittsburgh. THE ROLE Our generative AI-powered products are bringing joy back to the practice of medicine, and we’re looking for experienced backend software engineers to join our growing US-based engineering team. You’ll be an inaugural member of a new team forming to build the data + processing foundations we need to support our continued growth. You’ll work primarily in Typescript and Node, and you’ll deploy on platforms like Kubernetes and Temporal. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design, build, and support the robust cloud-native applications, services, and APIs we need for our rapidly-growing business. Sample projects might include building a new processing pipeline or overhauling our data storage services to support increasing scale. - Research commercial and open-source solutions, and make build vs buy recommendations to bring new capabilities into the technology organization. - Enhance existing systems to add new functionalit
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