Senior Backend Engineer - AI for Healthcare SaaS

Akasa; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Robust healthcare plans, including 100

Employer contrib. to FSA/HSA

Job summary

Akasa is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer, Backend, to build AI-powered solutions for Clinical Documentation and Medical Coding. You will design and implement services, APIs, and tools, collaborating with product, design, and ML teams to deliver high-impact healthcare software.

You will mentor junior engineers, contribute to platform architecture, and help scale SaaS products across large health systems in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Proven track record with SaaS products.
• Experience with healthcare data exchange (FHIR, HL7, EDI) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and land cutting-edge experiences at large healthcare organizations.
• Create and maintain backend services and build on top of machine learning.
• Design, build, and maintain shared APIs, tools, services, and applications.
• Lead design discussions, planning sessions, and code reviews; mentor junior engineers.
• Partner with product, design, and ML teams to shape platform architecture.

Skills

Communication

Mentoring

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Python

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

Akasa is hiring a Sr. Software Engineer, Backend, to build AI-powered solutions for Clinical Documentation and Medical Coding. You will design and implement services, APIs, and tools, collaborating with product, design, and ML teams to deliver high-impact healthcare software.

You will mentor junior engineers, contribute to platform architecture, and help scale SaaS products across large health systems in a hybrid work environment.