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Counsel HealthCounsel HealthNew York, NY

Senior Software Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer on the Platform & Integrations team, owning external APIs, health data models, retrieval infrastructure, and enterprise integrations for an AI-native medical group. Requires 5+ years building production backend systems, external APIs, data modeling (esp. time-series), distributed systems, and RAG/search at scale.

185k – 225k
Hybrid5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Design and evolve our external API and embedded product layer with long-term stability, disciplined versioning, and enterprise-grade craftsmanship
  • Evolve our agentic retrieval harness to support patient and clinical search across structured and unstructured data, with strict permission and audit guarantees
  • Build reusable platform primitives that let external partners embed and extend our AI capabilities, so every integration adds lasting platform leverage
  • Contribute to core data models that unify structured health records, unstructured inputs, and high-frequency time-series signals

Who You Are

  • Cares deeply about API craftsmanship and long-term system design
  • Has built complex systems that external customers rely on
  • Enjoys modeling messy real-world data, especially high-frequency signals, into clean, durable abstractions
  • Has built comprehensive search or RAG systems at production scale
  • Has helped scale early systems from 1 to 10 in a fast-paced environment
  • Thrives in small, high-leverage teams where ownership is real
  • Has a track record of maintaining and leveling up operational excellence across engineering organizations

What You Bring

  • 5+ years building production backend systems, ideally in high-growth environments
  • Experience designing and maintaining external-facing APIs used by customers or partners
  • Strong data modeling instincts, particularly around time-series or high-frequency data
  • Experience working with distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures
  • Comfort contributing to greenfield architectural design while shipping pragmatically

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Comprehensive healthcare, vision + dental, 401K, Unlimited PTO, Parental Leave

Skills

APIsData ModelingDistributed SystemsMulti-Tenant ArchitecturesRAGSearch SystemsTime-Series Data

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