Staff Backend Engineer

Commure; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology firm is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to revolutionize healthcare through innovative AI solutions. This role involves crafting user-friendly interfaces, leading technical planning, and ensuring scalability. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in software development, strong programming skills in Python and Go, and is excited about quick deployment cycles. Join us in transforming healthcare technology and improving provider and patient experiences.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development.
• Excitement to work in a high-impact field as a builder.
• Experience shipping quickly and deploying daily.

Responsibilities

• Influence and craft the roadmap for teams ensuring technical excellence.
• Work across the entire technology stack including Python, Go, FastAPI, Flask.
• Lead technical planning and execution for new features.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical experts.

Skills

Backend Programming Skills (Python, Go)

Debugging and problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills

Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)

Attention to detail

Ability to ship quickly

Growth mindset

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Job description

At Commure, our mission is to simplify healthcare. We have bold ambitions to reimagine the healthcare experience, setting a new standard for how care is delivered and experienced across the industry. Our growing suite of AI solutions spans ambient AI clinical documentation, provider copilots, autonomous coding, revenue cycle management and more — all designed for providers & administrators to focus on what matters most: providing care.

Healthcare is a $4.5 trillion industry with more than $500 billion spent annually on administrative costs, and Commure is at the heart of transforming it. We power over 500,000 clinicians across hundreds of care sites nationwide – more than $10 billion flows through our systems and we support over 100 million patient interactions. With new product launches on the horizon, expansion into additional care segments, and a bold vision to tackle healthcare\'s most pressing challenges, our ambition is to move from upstart innovator to the industry standard over the next few years.

Commure was recently named to Fortune’s Future 50 list for 2025 and is backed by world-class investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia, Y Combinator, Lux, Human Capital, 8VC, Greenoaks Capital, Elad Gil, and more. Commure has achieved over 300% year-over-year growth for the past two years and this is only the beginning. Healthcare\'s moment for AI-powered transformation is here, and we\'re building the technology to power it. Come join us in shaping the future of healthcare.

About the Role

At Commure, our engineering team is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare technology by building and scaling the systems powering our suite of healthcare products. We are looking for a talented Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft user-friendly, responsive, and secure interfaces that operate reliably at scale and enhance the healthcare experience for both providers and patients. If you are a builder and love working on important, exciting problems in healthcare and love shipping quickly, come join us!

What You’ll Do

• Influence and craft the roadmap for teams, ensuring technical excellence and an engineering organization that scale reliably with the business

• Be a part of a tremendously fast-paced team that celebrates large ambition and making decisions quickly

• Work across the entire technology stack, including but not limited to Python, Go, FastAPI, Flask, and other frameworks

• Lead technical planning and execution for new features, balancing technical feasibility, usability, and business impact

• Design and refine systems to enforce best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment

• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to translate requirements into intuitive and efficient UI solutions

• Work directly with customers to solve their issues daily

What You Have

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience

• 8+ years of professional experience in software development industry experience

• Strong Backend Programming Skills (We use Python and Go)

• General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills and a history of demonstrated resourcefulness

• Track record of making successful architectural decisions to deliver multi-month, high-impact projects

• Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience in environments where you have to ship quickly. We move fast and deploy daily.

• Excitement to work in a high-impact field with a builder attitude!

• Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs

• Growth mindset and a motivation to grow

Commure is committed to creating and fostering a diverse team. We are open to all backgrounds and levels of experience, and believe that great people can always find a place. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants throughout the application process.

Please be aware that all official communication from us will come exclusively from email addresses ending in getathelas.com, commure.com or augmedix.com. Any emails from other domains are not affiliated with our organization.

Employees will act in accordance with the organization’s information security policies, to include but not limited to protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference nor execute particular security processes or activities. Employees will report to the information security office any confirmed or potential events or other risks to the organization. Employees will be required to attest to these requirements upon hire and on an annual basis.