Senior Software Engineer - AI Workflow Orchestration

Plenful; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) with Company Match

Equity

Unlimited PTO

Daily Lunch Stipend

Wellness Stipend

Commuter Benefits

Parental Leave

Job summary

Plenful is building a category-defining AI workflow automation platform for healthcare operations, backed by leading investors. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and build the systems powering our automations platform, owning major components and collaborating with DevOps, ML/AI, Customer Success, and UX teams.

You will work across core infrastructure, external integrations, data pipelines, and incident response, delivering reliable, scalable backend systems with a strong

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with distributed systems, workflow orchestration, automated systems, and event-driven pipelines at scale.
• Strong database expertise: SQL, schema design, and performance optimization.
• Solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design).
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines.
• Able to take ownership of projects and collaborate across engineering, DevOps, ML, and UX teams.
• Proven experience improving reliability, performance, and maintainability in production systems.
• Excellent communication in technical discussions and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of complex backend projects from design through deployment.
• Participate in architectural discussions, propose improvements, and drive high reliability and maintainability standards.
• Contribute to reducing technical debt and improving operational efficiency.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical discussions.
• Participate in incident response and postmortems with a focus on prevention and system resilience.
• Collaborate with DevOps, ML/AI, Customer Success, and UX teams to deliver scalable automations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Workflow orchestration

Automated systems

Event-driven pipelines

SQL / Database design

Algorithms & data structures

Large-scale data pipelines

Ownership & cross-functional teamwork

Job description

Plenful is building a category-defining AI workflow automation platform for healthcare operations, backed by leading investors. We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and build the systems powering our automations platform, owning major components and collaborating with DevOps, ML/AI, Customer Success, and UX teams.

You will work across core infrastructure, external integrations, data pipelines, and incident response, delivering reliable, scalable backend systems with a strong