Alaffia Health
Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
New York, New York, US · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Requires current authorization to work in the United States; work visa sponsorship is not available.
About the job
Leads backend architecture and delivery across teams while scaling AI-powered claims review applications and infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Architect and deliver high-impact backend systems; set technical direction and development standards.
- Build and deploy production data-intensive applications, owning testing, system health, observability, and infrastructure decisions.
- Promote AI coding tool adoption, mentor senior engineers, and partner across engineering, product, and business teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including leading complex backend projects at scale and production-level API development and backend data processing.
- Hands-on relational database and data model design experience.
- Strong system design and cloud infrastructure experience, including CI/CD, containerization, and observability.
- Demonstrated success using AI coding assistants to improve team productivity; strong communication and senior-engineer mentoring experience.
Nice to have
- Healthcare SaaS, user-facing AI products or AI/ML deployment, SDKs or libraries, or vector databases.
- Experience with Airflow or Dagster, AWS SQS, Kinesis or Kafka, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, open-source contributions, or technical publications.
Tools
Python, TypeScript, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Datadog, Claude Code, PostgreSQL
AI focus
Scale GenAI applications for a claims review platform and drive adoption of AI coding tools, including Claude Code, with practices to measure productivity gains.
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