Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Applied AI

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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SmarterDx

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

💰 $6M Seed Round on 2022-04

Healthcare • Consulting • Legal

SmarterDx is a company that specializes in clinical AI, offering solutions to improve hospitals' revenue integrity and quality metrics. By analyzing 100% of patient charts, SmarterDx's proprietary AI algorithms identify differential diagnoses that may otherwise be missed, providing a significant boost to revenue opportunities for hospitals. Their services enhance clinical documentation integrity (CDI) by flagging clinical evidence with missing diagnoses or diagnoses lacking associated evidence, thereby ensuring compliance and streamlined workflows. SmarterDx prides itself on delivering immediate results and high customer satisfaction, thanks to its AI-driven insights which save time for CDI teams performing repetitive tasks.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and launch backend services and product capabilities that incorporate LLMs, machine learning models, and other AI systems • Build production-grade workflows around model inference, structured outputs, tool use, retrieval, agentic workflows, and other LLM application patterns • Partner closely with Data Scientists to take models and experimental approaches from exploration into reliable, maintainable production systems • Develop evaluation, observability, and feedback mechanisms to understand and improve AI system performance in production • Design systems that gracefully handle the probabilistic and non-deterministic behavior of AI models • Work with clinical and operational data across structured and unstructured formats, including documents and images • Collaborate across engineering, product, data science, and clinical disciplines to understand users and rapidly iterate on new ideas • Design and improve the backend architecture that supports SmarterDx’s applications at scale • Protect patients’ privacy and security through secure coding and data-handling practices • Research and advocate for improved techniques, architectures, and development practices as the applied AI ecosystem evolves • Support SmarterDx’s applications and AI systems in production

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience, with significant experience building backend and cloud-based systems • Expertise in Python and/or TypeScript, with strong software engineering fundamentals • Experience building LLM-powered applications that have been deployed to production • Experience integrating models into larger software systems rather than working exclusively on model training or ML infrastructure • Experience collaborating closely with Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, or research-oriented teams • Experience designing APIs, services, data models, and asynchronous or event-driven workflows • Experience working with Postgres or a similar relational database • Experience building cloud-native distributed systems • Familiarity with evaluating, debugging, and monitoring AI systems in production • Strong judgment around reliability, testing, observability, and failure handling in systems that incorporate probabilistic model outputs • Experience working in a security-conscious environment • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills • Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision – Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 75% of your premiums, depending on the plan. • Paid Parental Leave – Generous paid leave to support families through birth or adoption: Up to 12 weeks for parents. • Remote-First Team – Work from anywhere in the U.S. • Unlimited PTO & 11 Holidays – So you can relax and recharge. • 401(k) with Traditional & Roth Options – Tax-advantaged retirement savings through Fidelity with a 4% match. • Minimal Bureaucracy – A fast-moving, high-impact environment where you can focus on what matters. • Incredible Teammates! – Work alongside smart, supportive, and mission-driven colleagues.