Senior Platform Engineer — Core Domain & AI Infra

Alpaca Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpaca Health is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own the platform foundation, including data models and financial logic, in New York City. You will be responsible for designing and building systems that ensure integrity and correctness within the healthcare domain. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of relevant experience and will contribute to critical decisions in a fast-growing company. This is a full-time position requiring in-office presence, emphasizing autonomy and ownership.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in fintech, insurance, healthcare, or logistics.
• Experience in production environments where correctness is critical.
• Ability to make technical decisions in code rather than in meetings.

Responsibilities

• Own the core domain model including patients, claims, and payments.
• Design and implement rules governing money flow and payroll logic.
• Ensure system integrity with well-defined lifecycle state machines.
• Manage schema evolution and deployment processes.
• Build and secure AI infrastructure for clinical workflows.

Skills

Data modeling

API design

State machine design

Healthcare knowledge

LLM feature deployment

Job description

Alpaca Health is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to own the platform foundation, including data models and financial logic, in New York City. You will be responsible for designing and building systems that ensure integrity and correctness within the healthcare domain. The ideal candidate has over 4 years of relevant experience and will contribute to critical decisions in a fast-growing company. This is a full-time position requiring in-office presence, emphasizing autonomy and ownership.