Staff Software Engineer - Backend/Infra
AmigoClinical AI company
New York, United StatesLead
Madrona
General Catalyst
Optum Ventures
GSV Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and own core backend services for a healthcare AI platform.
- •Amigo partners with healthcare organizations to deploy robust AI infrastructure that directly serves patients and providers.
- •As a Staff Backend/Infra Engineer, you'll build the core services behind our agent platform, handling millions of conversations monthly.
- •Key Responsibilities Designing high-throughput services that handle concurrent conversations at scale Owning a core platform service from design to production Building systems that stay available and degrade gracefully when things fail Handling sensitive healthcare data with the care it requires Improving performance, observability, and operational health across services Requirements Built and operated production backend systems at scale and owned the outcome Strong with concurrency, distributed systems, and service design Prefer simple, maintainable solutions to hard problems Debug well across services, queues, and databases Low ego, direct, and hold yourself to a high bar
Required skills
MicroservicesKubernetesCI/CDDockerService Design
Domain expertise
healthtechai
Benefits & perks
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, Daily catered lunch and dinner, Mental health support and wellness coaching, Flexible wellness stipend for fitness, therapy, or personal growth, Annual learning budget for courses, books, or conferences, Conference attendance budget for professional development, Annual team offsite, Academic collaboration opportunities, Unlimited PTO
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoBashNode.jsFastAPIMicroservicesPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformDockerKubernetesCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsArgoCDHelmGitLab CICircleCIAnsiblePrometheusGrafanaDatadogNew Relic