Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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🕒 March 4

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Apella

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

💰 $21M Series A on 2021-12

Artificial Intelligence • Healthcare Insurance • SaaS

Apella is a company that offers an AI-powered surgical operations platform aimed at transforming operating rooms (ORs). Their platform helps perioperative teams make better real-time decisions, improve safety and quality processes, and optimize scheduling and staffing. By providing predictive insights and auditing key safety processes, Apella enables hospitals to enhance operating efficiency, reduce staff burnout, and improve the overall patient experience. Their solutions offer valuable analytics to address complex scheduling and utilization questions, ultimately increasing surgical volume and efficiency in ORs.

📋 Description

• Design and implement backend services and infrastructure that power our platform's core functionality. • Build and maintain reliable APIs, service interfaces, and platform tooling to support application needs. • Collaborate with product and engineering partners to understand system requirements and translate them into robust technical solutions. • Build systems for media capture, storage, and serving that support high-quality video and imaging workflows. • Implement observability, error handling, and monitoring to ensure system reliability in production. • Contribute to the design and evolution of secure, scalable infrastructure that supports high-throughput backend workloads. • Develop shared GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines with progressive delivery patterns (canary rollouts, automated testing).

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in backend software engineering, with a focus on service-oriented architectures, high-throughput systems, and platform infrastructure. • Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language (Python, Java, Go, etc.). • Experience designing and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, etc.) and working with asynchronous or message-based systems. • Hands-on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases. • Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or similar) and how applications run in production environments. • Experience building resilient systems with proper testing, validation, and error handling. • Experience with infrastructure-as-code or platform tooling that supports backend services.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options • Flexible vacation policy and a culture that values time for rest and recharging • Remote-first work environment with unique virtual and in-person events to foster team connection • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance—we're a healthcare company that prioritizes your health • 16 weeks of parental leave for all parents