Senior Software Engineer - Health Data Platform
About The Position
Rad AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its platform team and build and maintain a healthcare data platform that powers mission-critical products, including its Reporting application. The role focuses on backend infrastructure that connects directly to customer-facing products, using Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Medplum, and healthcare data formats such as HL7. It offers the opportunity to help shape how healthcare data flows across the company. The engineer will contribute to large-scale web applications and a modern React/TypeScript frontend, as well as Python backend services, REST APIs, and machine-learning pipeline services. The role involves developing features for a growing customer base and collaborating with Product Management, UX, Customer Success, and other stakeholders. Code is expected to meet internal security, style, maintainability, and best-practice standards for a high-scale HIPAA web environment. Applicants may be located anywhere in the United States. Rad AI strongly prefers this role to be based in its San Francisco office. For the San Francisco onsite arrangement, employees are expected to work onsite four days per week, with the remaining time worked remotely or onsite depending on team and business needs.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of industry full-stack engineering experience with single- and multi-tenant environments.
- In-depth knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and Python with FastAPI, or equivalent modern languages and frameworks.
- Knowledge of relational and document-based databases and other large-scale data storage paradigms.
- Knowledge of modern web architecture and best practices.
- Fluency with HTML, CSS, responsive design, and related web technologies.
- Familiarity with cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, browser networking, and browser APIs such as IndexedDB and WebSockets.
- Experience with unit and integration testing.
- Experience working on a distributed team and strong version-control skills using Git.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent them.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with React.
- Experience with Starlette and SQLAlchemy.
- Experience with PostgreSQL.
- Experience with third-party integrations such as Auth0 and Amplitude.
- Experience working at an early-stage startup.
- Experience in a HIPAA-compliant environment, especially with FHIR and HL7.
- Experience working on machine learning.
Responsibilities
- Develop large-scale progressive and single-page web applications that streamline user workflows and improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Work on a modern JavaScript (React/TypeScript) frontend application.
- Develop Python and FastAPI backend services, including REST APIs and machine-learning pipeline services.
- Build new features to support a rapidly growing customer base.
- Write code that meets internal standards for security, style, maintainability, and best practices in a high-scale HIPAA web environment.
- Collaborate with Product Management, UX, Customer Success, and other stakeholders to iterate on features and address defects.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have impact across the team.
- Build and maintain healthcare data platform infrastructure that supports mission-critical products and connects to customer-facing products.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- HSA with employer match, FSA, and DCFSA.
- 401(k).
- 11 paid company holidays.
- Flexible PTO policy.
- Annual company-wide offsite.
- Periodic team offsites.
- Annual equipment stipend.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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