Staff Software Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Mountain View (CA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering company in AI-driven solutions is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the architecture and development of innovative patient communication tools. This role emphasizes the creation of scalable services and cloud infrastructure while collaborating within a dynamic team environment. Ideal candidates will possess strong software development skills and have prior experience with cloud technologies. Join us to reshape healthcare communication using cutting-edge AI technologies.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits package

Collaborative and inclusive work environment

Opportunities for growth and development

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in back-end, infrastructure, or full-stack development.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining web services and applications.
• Familiarity with Generative AI and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and build services and APIs for LLM agents.
• Integrate systems using Python and other technologies.
• Establish best practices for a robust codebase.

Skills

Communication

Python

JavaScript

Java

C++

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Azure

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job DescriptionJob Description

Location: Remote

About Actium Health

We are the largest AI agent patient communication platform and have automated over 50 million calls. Actium Health, a division of Syllable, emerged from a bold, singular vision: to scale human connection for healthcare contact centers. With its leading enterprise-scale GenAI voice agents and unified platform, Actium Health automates inbound and outbound patient calls and deep conversation analytics.

Position Overview

Actium Health is seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining services, tools, and applications on a Generative AI Platform. You will work with stakeholders in a highly collaborative scrum team, delivering frequent updates and value to our customers. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of AI.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing and building services and APIs to be leveraged by LLM agents

• Integrating disparate systems, using Python and similar technologies

• Building out technical infrastructure in Azure and other cloud services to meet the demands of a growing user base

• Designing and deploying our services infrastructure with a fully automated CI/CD pipeline

• Building batch and streaming data pipelines for rapid ingestion of data at healthcare scale

• Taking ownership over projects end to end, bringing them from vision to reality

• Working with product owners, from ideation and prototyping to the deployment and monitoring of a final product

• Establishing best practices for our codebase, building reusable, testable, scalable, and well documented code

• Working to develop our long-term technical vision

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent experience

• 6+ years of experience in back-end, infrastructure, or full-stack development

• Strong communication skills and the ability to prepare written material that communicates clearly and succinctly

• Development in Python, JavaScript, Java, or C++

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining web services and web applications from scratch

Qualifications

This is a technical leadership role that will give you the opportunity to establish a core part of our company's technology. You should have experience with some of the following:

• Server-side Python programming and web application frameworks

• Designing or leveraging APIs, especially for data access

• Structured data development using data representations in JSON

• Batch, stream, and offline processing to manage business state or perform ETL

• Relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL

• Application development on cloud providers like Azure, AWS, or GCP

• Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD platforms

• Proactive and reactive monitoring and log management for SaaS applications

• Generative AI and Prompt Engineering

• Startup and/or healthcare industry experience

What we offer

• An opportunity to be at the forefront of the AI industry, driving impactful changes that benefit AI and LLM agentic platforms worldwide

• An opportunity to transform patient communication in healthcare at scale

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

• A collaborative and inclusive work environment

• Opportunities for growth, learning, and development

Compensation range

Actium Health is open to consideration of candidates at varying levels of experience and responsibility, subject to meeting the basic qualifications of the position. As such, the salary range for this position is $100,000-$200,000. The range of compensation for this role takes into account the variety of factors considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to pay band placement, skillset, experience and training, licensure and certification, geographic location, and other business and organizational needs. All compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.