Senior Backend Engineer, Athelas
Ambient AI
$170-230k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
AI to grow healthcare businesses
Be an early applicant
AI to grow healthcare businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-230k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
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
- 3+ years of professional software development industry experience
- [Preferred] Strong Backend Programming Skills
- [Preferred] Experience in environments where you have to ship quickly. We move fast
- General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Excitement to work in a high impact field with a builder attitude!
- Experience building production environments
- Alerting and reporting
- Metrics tracking
- Software reliability engineering
- Great product sense
- Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs
- Extremely motivated to grow
- Strong leadership skills
What the job involves
- At Commure, our Ambient Scribe team is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare technology by building Ambient AI solutions for the entire care journey. We're looking for a talented engineers to help take Ambient AI to the next level. If you love working on important, exciting problems in healthcare and love shipping quickly, come join us!
- Contribute to the most advanced healthcare platform in the country
- Help scale infrastructure that supports the largest health systems in the country
- Be a part of a tremendously fast-paced team that celebrates fast execution and decisions
- Work across the entire software stack
- Work with a stack that includes Python, Flask, Django, FastAPIs and other frameworks
- 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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