Staff Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Healthcare Tech

ByteHire; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteHire client is seeking a Staff Full-Staff Engineer to shape and deliver a growing healthcare technology platform. This senior role combines hands-on software development with architectural leadership across AI, data, and cloud infrastructure.

You will design full-stack solutions, implement AI-enabled features, and guide best practices while ensuring secure handling of sensitive healthcare information. This position offers autonomy and visibility into platform direction.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack development skills across TypeScript/Node.js and React.
• Experience deploying AI or LLM-based capabilities within live software products.
• Practical experience with OCR, document extraction, RAG, or AI workflow automation.
• Understanding of how to assess and control the quality of AI-generated results in production.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL experience, including relational schema design.
• Experience implementing complex business workflows, approval processes, and auditable application logic.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver full-stack software using TypeScript/Node.js with React.
• Build and maintain APIs, backend services, integrations, and data-driven application features.
• Create AI-supported functionality for document handling, information extraction, retrieval, and automated decision support.
• Introduce practical safeguards around AI outputs, including validation, review steps, and exception handling.
• Develop robust business workflows involving approvals, permissions, process status, and traceability.
• Contribute to cloud architecture, deployment pipelines, containerised environments, monitoring, and operational tooling.
• Maintain strong controls around sensitive healthcare information and system access.
• Work with product, clinical, data, and commercial teams to turn requirements into workable technical solutions.
• Improve application quality through testing, documentation, performance tuning, and operational support.
• Provide technical guidance to other engineers and help improve development standards as the team grows.

Skills

TypeScript/Node.js

React

AI/LLM integration

Cloud platforms

PostgreSQL

System design

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

CDK

dbt

OCR

Job description

ByteHire client is seeking a Staff Full-Staff Engineer to shape and deliver a growing healthcare technology platform. This senior role combines hands-on software development with architectural leadership across AI, data, and cloud infrastructure.

You will design full-stack solutions, implement AI-enabled features, and guide best practices while ensuring secure handling of sensitive healthcare information. This position offers autonomy and visibility into platform direction.