Counsel Health
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
$185K–$225K
New York Office (Flatiron) +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 2, 2026
- Location
- New York Office (Flatiron)
Boston - Experience
- 5+ years building production backend systems.
- Visa sponsorship
- New hires are processed through E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility.
About the job
Build and scale backend platform primitives, APIs, data models, retrieval infrastructure, and integrations for AI-powered healthcare workflows.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve stable, versioned external APIs and embedded product capabilities.
- Develop patient and clinical retrieval across structured and unstructured data with permission and audit guarantees.
- Build platform primitives and data models for partner integrations and longitudinal health data.
What they ask for
- Experience designing and maintaining customer- or partner-facing APIs.
- Strong data modeling skills, particularly with time-series or high-frequency data.
- Experience with distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures.
- Ability to contribute to greenfield architecture while shipping pragmatically.
Nice to have
- Experience in high-growth environments.
- Experience building production-scale search or RAG systems.
Pay
$185K – $225K USD base salary
AI focus
Build platform infrastructure for AI-driven clinical workflows, including an agentic retrieval harness and partner-embeddable AI capabilities.
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