Senior Backend Engineer, Athelas
$170-230k
+ equity
AI to grow healthcare businesses
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AI to grow healthcare businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-230k
+ equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To simplify and improve healthcare delivery through AI and automation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience
- 4+ years of professional experience in software development industry experience
- Strong Backend Programming Skills (We use Python and Go)
- General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Track record of strong execution and ability to drive work from ideation to successful implementation
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills and a history of demonstrated resourcefulness
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 Senior 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
- Design and influence decisions that affect our backend architecture for scalable, AI-powered healthcare solutions
- 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
- Establish and enforce best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment
- Mentor junior engineers, guiding backend engineering, design patterns, and coding standards
- 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
Our take
Today, healthcare providers are tackling the growing challenge of too much paperwork and too little time for patients. Many existing electronic health record (EHR) systems only add to the problem - digital, yes, but often too clunky, time-consuming, and disconnected from the tools doctors actually need. Athelas is tackling this by reimagining how healthcare software works, helping providers spend less time lcicking and more time caring for people.
Athelas offers a full suite of tools that combine AI-powered automation, remote patient monitoring (RPM), and integrated EHR and billing systems. And its newest platform, Athelas AIR, is a next-generation EHR designed to unify clinical and administrative workflows in one intelligent system. By embedding revenue cycle management (RCM) and ambient AI documentation directly into the platform, Athelas AIR streamlines everything from charting to billing. And the goal is simple, to reduce administrative burden, improve margins, and ultimately, give healthcare teams a smoother, smarter way to work.
The company has made significant strides in recent years. After reaching unicorn status in 2022 and merging with Commure in 2023, Athelas is now valued at around $6B and continues to expand its platform. Alongside growing adoption of Athelas AIR, the company has recently secured FDA clearance for its Athelas Home device - an AI-powered diagnostic tool that delivers lab-grade blood test results from a fingerstick in minutes. This allows care teams to test, diagnose, and make decisions in a single visit. With a growing customer base and a broader push into AI-driven diagnostics as well as software, Athelas is ready to be a leader in end-to-end, intelligent healthcare infrastructure.
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Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Aug 2021
$72m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.4m
Company HQ
Jackson Park, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Tanay Tandon
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Athelas, they are the CEO of Commure. Previously, they were a Researcher at Stanford University AI Department and MetaMind.
Deepika Bodapati
(Co-Founder & COO)Alongside Athelas, they are the COO of Commure. Prior to founding Athelas in 2016, they were a Researcher at Stanford University, Multimodality Molecular Imaging Lab and NASA Ames Research Center.
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