Staff Software Engineer, Cleerly
Platform Backend Lead
$212-258k
OTE
AI-powered heart disease diagnostics
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AI-powered heart disease diagnostics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$212-258k
OTE
201-500 employees
Company mission
To eliminate heart attacks by creating a new standard of care for the diagnosis of heart disease.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, hands-on self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment
- A strong team player and highly accountable
- Committed to producing high-quality deliverables
- Possesses strong communication skills and a genuine interest in collaborating with third-party development teams
- Experience & Scale: 8–12+ years building complex backend platforms, including microservices, APIs, and distributed systems
- API Design Mastery: Strong proficiency in API design (REST/gRPC), including critical concepts like versioning and backward compatibility
- Asynchronous Architecture: Expertise in event-driven architectures (queues/streams) and implementing robust workflow orchestration patterns
- Data Management: Extensive data modeling experience (relational and document stores) with a focus on audit-friendly design and data integrity
- Coding Proficiency: Hands-on coding mastery in a production language (e.g., Java/Kotlin, Go, Python, C#)
- Reliability Ownership: Proven ownership of critical reliability features (e.g., idempotency, retries, Dead Letter Queues (DLQ), and circuit breakers)
- Security Fundamentals: Strong knowledge of security fundamentals, including authN/authZ (authentication/authorization), service-to-service mTLS, and the principle of least privilege
- Performance Engineering: Experience with performance engineering techniques, including setting latency budgets, p95/p99 tuning, and extensive load testing
- Cloud Operations: Deep experience building and operating backend services in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
- AWS Services: Comfortable working with key AWS services (VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch)
- Containerization & ML: Familiarity with container orchestration (EKS/ECS) and AWS Machine Learning services (e.g., SageMaker)
- Multi-Tenancy: Experience designing and implementing multi-tenant systems (including tenant isolation, quotas, and entitlements)
- Technical Leadership: Able to lead small teams, set technical standards, and deliver incrementally with tight production timelines
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other advanced technical degree preferred
Desirable
- Senior Domain Experience: Previous experience as a Principal Software Engineer or equivalent in the Medical Imaging or Medical Device industry
- Imaging Domain Expertise: Deep exposure to the Healthcare Imaging domain, including DICOM/DICOMweb standards and PACS workflows
- Clinical Reporting Standards: Experience with modern healthcare data standards like FHIR/HL7 and systems requiring structured clinical reporting
- Regulated Software (SaMD): Practical experience with SaMD/regulated software requirements, including robust traceability, strict change control processes, and a strong validation mindset
- Prior experience of setting up DICOM services like Store, Storage commitment, Query/Retrieve, and Modality Worklist
- Prior experience in designing cloud solutions and supporting production projects on AWS
- Knowledge of API standards including REST or GraphQL
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Platform Backend Lead Engineer to join the core technical team of our growing next-generation enterprise-level imaging platform
- This individual will serve as the Technical Lead for the platform backend, driving the end-to-end delivery of the Hub orchestration layer and its critical integrations with third-party AI engines and reporting vendors
- Key responsibilities include defining the backend architecture, specifically:
- Service boundaries and API contracts
- Data flows and reliability patterns
- The Lead Engineer will collaborate closely with Product, Program, SRE, SQA, and Software Engineers, as well as development partners, to build the next generation product for heart disease diagnosis
- Own Core Services: Be the technical owner for the platform's core orchestration and integration services, including case/job lifecycle management, routing policies, third-party integration endpoints, and results ingestion/normalization
- Define Architectural Standards: Set architecture standards, define service contracts and error semantics, and ensure the platform is observable, resilient, and prepared to meet production SLAs
- Design & Document Solutions: Design, document, and demonstrate technical solutions by creating necessary flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, and clear code comments
- Full Cycle Participation: Participate actively in the full software development life cycle (SDLC) from requirements analysis through testing, release, and maintenance
- Drive Code Quality: Perform rigorous code reviews, ensure excellent unit test coverage, and actively drive bug triage and resolution
- Development Contribution: Participate in developing and maintaining the necessary APIs, integrations, and libraries that support the platform
- Implement Observability: Integrate logging, metrics, and tracing tools to effectively meet and maintain the platform's observability goals
Our take
Traditional heart disease evaluation methods, such as a coronary angiogram, can be invasive - a catheter is threaded through the arm or leg to reach the heart, where it injects dye into its arteries so X-ray images can capture how blood flows through the vessels.
Though serious complications from the procedure are rare, they potentially include injury to the artery, an allergic reaction or kidney damage from the dye, as well as heart attack or stroke. This is a problem that Cleerly is trying to solve by measuring this plaque through AI-powered imaging which analyzes non-invasive coronary CT scans.
The company's continued success and growth, marked by recent funding, reflect the immense potential of its AI-driven imaging technology. With strong financial backing, the company is well-positioned to revolutionize heart disease screening and expand its market reach. As Cleerly moves closer to gaining full regulatory approval and broader coverage, its innovative approach to early detection could be a transformative impact on healthcare, making it an exciting company to watch in coming years.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
102% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2024
$106m
SERIES C
Jul 2022
$223m
SERIES C
Total funding: $417.8m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package to support your health, growth, and work-life balance
- Choose from a variety of medical, dental, and vision plans that suit your needs
- We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Flexible self-managed PTO
- Company holidays, including the week between Christmas Eve & New Year's Day, so you can recharge
- 401K with company match
- Generous parental leave
- Monthly stipends for WiFi/Internet and wellness
- Support your professional growth with annual stipends for learning and development
- Home office support
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Dr. James Min
(Founder & CEO)Former Professor of Radiology and Medicine in Cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical College and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Former Director of the Dalio Institute of Cardiovascular Imaging.
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