AKASA aims to build the future of healthcare with AI, specifically by providing generative AI solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle to help health systems capture and communicate the full patient clinical journey, streamline operations, and focus on delivering quality patient care. The Sr. Software Engineer, Backend will contribute to AI-powered solutions that correct clinical errors, deliver measurable value, improve physician documentation, help clinicians identify missing diagnoses, convert documentation to medical codes, and ensure financial integrity for health systems.
Requirements
- Software engineering experience in Python is required
- Proven track record with SaaS products
- Experience building consumer applications on top of ML pipelines
- Familiarity with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Postgres
- Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions
- Firm grasp of system design principles
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain backend services and build on top of machine learning to solve challenging customer problems
- Design, build, and maintain shared APIs, tools, services, and applications that help form the foundation of our technology ecosystem
- Bring creative solutions to the table, knowledge-share with the team, and work together to shape our platform architecture
- Lead and participate in design discussions, planning sessions, and code reviews
- Partner closely with our product, design, and machine learning teams
- Build and land cutting-edge and novel experiences at large healthcare organizations
- Mentor junior engineers on the team
Other
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development or machine learning
- Experience with healthcare data exchange (FHIR, HL7, EDI) is a plus
- Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
