Ellipsis Health
Senior Backend Engineer, Forward Deployed
$160K–$250K
San Francisco - Hybrid · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 1, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in back-end development.
About the job
Designs and operates backend services, APIs, and orchestration systems powering Ellipsis Health’s conversational AI platform and healthcare integrations.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain scalable APIs, microservices, and orchestration services for AI workflows and external integrations.
- Support secure healthcare integrations, data pipelines, CI/CD, and reliable production operations.
- Collaborate with AI/ML and product teams, troubleshoot backend systems, and mentor junior developers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of backend development experience building secure, scalable systems.
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js proficiency; experience with RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.
- Experience with orchestration layers or workflow engines, microservices, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on cloud and container orchestration experience; database design, security, CI/CD, and end-to-end production ownership.
Nice to have
- Experience with Epic EHR, SMART on FHIR, Epic APIs, or Epic App Orchard; familiarity with FHIR or HL7.
- Experience with conversational AI, voice systems, NLP, health tech, regulated industries, or large-scale distributed systems.
Pay
$160,000 to $210,000 USD (base salary); $175K – $250K (compensation; type not specified)
Tools
TypeScript, Node.js, RESTful API, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes
AI focus
Collaborate on deploying and managing conversational AI and NLP workflows in production; build orchestration systems supporting conversational AI workflows.
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