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Staff Backend Engineer

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In-Office
New York, NY, USA
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
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New York, NY, USA
200K-250K Annually
Senior level
The role involves leading backend development, collaborating on system design, and ensuring technical excellence while working on healthcare technology solutions.
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At Commure, we're building the AI Operating System for healthcare, the foundation that defines how care is delivered, documented, and financed. Our platform spans the full care journey: Ambient AI and Dictation eliminating documentation burden at the point of care, intelligent Agents automating patient and revenue workflows, and autonomous RCM processing billions in claims, all on a single AI-native platform integrated with 60+ EHRs.

Healthcare carries a $1 trillion administrative burden and we're at the center of transforming it. Today, 500,000+ clinicians across 500+ healthcare organizations nationwide trust Commure to handle $25B+ in annual claims and support over 200 million patient interactions. Our latest $70M raise at a $7B valuation reflects the confidence the market has placed in this mission.

Our team works directly alongside clinicians, not through layers of process, which means the gap between what you build and its impact on patient care is immediate. We move fast, deploy daily, and take full ownership from early thinking to production. If you're energized by hard problems, high stakes, and a team that holds itself to a high bar, you'll find your people here.

The future of healthcare is being built right now. Come deliver this transformation.

About the Role

At Commure, our engineering team is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare technology by building and scaling the systems powering our suite of healthcare products. We are looking for a talented Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft user-friendly, responsive, and secure interfaces that operate reliably at scale and enhance the healthcare experience for both providers and patients. If you are a builder and love working on important, exciting problems in healthcare and love shipping quickly, come join us!

What You’ll Do

  • Influence and craft the roadmap for teams, ensuring technical excellence and an engineering organization that scale reliably with the business

  • Be a part of a tremendously fast-paced team that celebrates large ambition and making decisions quickly

  • Work across the entire technology stack, including but not limited to Python, Go, FastAPI, Flask, and other frameworks

  • Lead technical planning and execution for new features, balancing technical feasibility, usability, and business impact

  • Design and refine systems to enforce best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment

  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to translate requirements into intuitive and efficient UI solutions

  • Work directly with customers to solve their issues daily

What You Have

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience

  • Professional experience in software development industry experience

  • Strong Backend Programming Skills (We use Python and Go)

  • General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)

  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills and a history of demonstrated resourcefulness

  • Track record of making successful architectural decisions to deliver multi-month, high-impact projects

  • Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Experience in environments where you have to ship quickly. We move fast and deploy daily.

  • Excitement to work in a high-impact field with a builder attitude!

  • Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs

  • Growth mindset and a motivation to grow

Please be aware that all official communication from us will come exclusively from email addresses ending in @getathelas.com, @commure.com or @augmedix.com. Any emails from other domains are not affiliated with our organization.


Employees will act in accordance with the organization’s information security policies, to include but not limited to protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference nor execute particular security processes or activities. Employees will report to the information security office any confirmed or potential events or other risks to the organization. Employees will be required to attest to these requirements upon hire and on an annual basis.

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