Amigo

Healthcare

SeniorSoftwareEngineer(Backend)

$210–240k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Amigo. Skills: backend development, concurrency programming, distributed systems, system design. Design backend services. Implement backend services”

What You'll Achieve.

patient outcomes; provider ROI; system performance; clinical accuracy

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

problem-solving abilities; system reliability; performance

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

backend development languages, concurrency programming, threads, async operations, parallelism, large-scale distributed systems, distributed architectures, SaaS platforms, Service-Oriented Architectures, cloud platforms, container orchestration technologies, security best practices, systems handling sensitive data, distributed systems concepts, message queuing systems, event streaming, async communication patterns, database systems, SQL, NoSQL, elegant solutions, clean, maintainable code, debugging skills, concurrent systems, distributed systems, problem-solving abilities, system reliability, performance

Nice to Have

healthcare, finance, regulated industries, observability, monitoring, distributed environments, high-throughput, low-latency system design, complex data processing systems

What You'll Do.

Design backend services

Implement backend services

Build service-oriented architectures

Implement secure data handling

Work with distributed systems concepts

Build resilient services

Optimize system performance

Solve backend challenges

Implement observability

Collaborate with platform teams

Design scalable systems

Contribute to architectural decisions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with platform teams; Work with product team

Full Job Description

ABOUT AMIGO Amigo partners with healthcare organizations to deploy robust AI infrastructure that directly serves patients and providers. Our agents handle clinical workflows and patient engagement across the entire journey: pre-visit intake, care navigation, post-visit care plans, patient monitoring, and more. We're fresh off our Series A backed by Tier 1 investors like Madrona, General Catalyst, and Optum Ventures. Our work is validated with leading academic medical institutions. Our agents have reached 3M+ patient encounters and are on track to 10x this year. ABOUT THIS ROLE As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Amigo, you'll build the core backend infrastructure that powers our agent platform at scale. You'll develop high-performance services that handle millions of conversations per month, focusing on concurrency, reliability, and clean system design. This role requires strong concurrency programming skills and curiosity for finding good solutions to complex technical challenges. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and implement high-performance backend services handling concurrent requests at scale - Build robust APIs and service-oriented architectures that power our agent platform - Develop systems with concurrency patterns to maximize throughput and reliability - Implement secure data handling for sensitive healthcare information with proper access controls - Work with distributed systems concepts like consensus, replication, and fault tolerance - Build resilient services that gracefully handle failures and maintain high availability - Optimize system performance through careful concurrency design and resource management - Solve complex backend challenges with simple, maintainable solutions - Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for backend services - Collaborate with platform teams to ensure integration across services - Design systems that scale horizontally while maintaining data consistency - Contribute to architectural decisions that shape our backe

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