Staff/Senior Backend Engineer, Abridge

Temporal

$180-250k

Offers Equity

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

More information about location

Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI

Job no longer available

Powering deeper understanding in healthcare through purpose-built AI

101-200 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseMachine LearningSaaSMedTech

Job no longer available

$180-250k

Offers Equity

Kubernetes

TypeScript

Senior and Expert level

New York

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

More information about location

101-200 employees

HealthcareB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseMachine LearningSaaSMedTech

Company mission

To power a deeper understanding in healthcare.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

7+ years of software engineering experience, with several years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems at a scale-up. You’ve seen what works, and probably a few things that didn’t work. Your opinions are grounded in experience
Experience building and deploying a complex backend system utilizing Temporal
Passion for engineering excellence, and a love for data and architecture
Several years of experience building software for a regulated environment, and understand the tradeoffs that can be required to ensure compliance with regulations and frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST
Knowledge of industry best-practices and trends, and an enjoyment of learning new things
Willing to pitch in wherever needed - as a fast-moving startup we need to do good work, quickly
Strong plus for ability and desire to work in San Francisco or New York on a hybrid working basis

What the job involves

You’ll be an inaugural member of a new team forming to build the data + processing foundations we need to support our continued growth
You’ll work primarily in Typescript and Node, and you’ll deploy on platforms like Kubernetes and Temporal
Design, build, and support the robust cloud-native applications, services, and APIs we need for our rapidly-growing business. Sample projects might include building a new processing pipeline or overhauling our data storage services to support increasing scale
Research commercial and open-source solutions, and make build vs buy recommendations to bring new capabilities into the technology organization
Enhance existing systems to add new functionality, and to improve performance, stability, quality, and security. Make quality-of-life improvements to the codebase, and help limit the growth of technical debt
Build deep user empathy and maintain a user-centric mindset
Communicate regularly and effectively within and on behalf of our cross-functional product delivery teams. You’ll work with other disciplines including product, machine learning, and platform engineering, and will have opportunities to learn from and contribute to projects across the company

Our take

Summarising key elements of healthcare conversations is crucial for both physicians and patients. Medical scribes, though effective, are costly, and the healthcare system faces funding and staffing crises. This has created a demand for more efficient notetaking solutions.

This is where Abridge comes in; it has developed a HIPAA-compliant AI platform that transcribes, structures, summarises, and provides insights from audio or transcripts of medical conversations. It claims to work across all specialities and offers patient-friendly summaries in easy-to-understand language.

Abridge aims to alleviate pressure on the healthcare system from the patient's perspective, a unique approach among healthtech startups. While companies like Inovia, DOUB, and DeepScribe focus on assisting physicians with medical transcription AI, they lack Abridge's patient-centric features, which are valuable in enhancing the patient experience. Its unique focus, then, is part of the reason why it enjoyed two impressive rounds of funding in 2025 alone.

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Company

Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)

May 2025

$300m

SERIES E

Feb 2025

$250m

SERIES D

Total funding: $757.5m

Company benefits

Unlimited PTO, plus 12 national holidays
16 weeks paid parental leave, for all employees
Flexible working hours — we care more about what you accomplish than what specific hours you’re working
Remote work environment
Equity for all new employees
Generous equipment budget for your home office setup ($1600)
Opportunity to work and grow with talented individuals, and have ownership and impact at a high growth startup

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Shivdev Rao

(CEO)

Alongside their work as a practising Cardiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, they also served as Physician Advisor in Residence and ultimately EVP at UPMC Enterprises; co-founded DocDok; and worked as a co-architect on a healthcare project at the Kauffman Foundation.

Sandeep Konam

(CTO)

Completed an MS in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon, then served as Senior Product Manager at UPMC Enterprises. Has delivered guest lectures at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and the University of Pittsburgh.

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