Staff Software Engineer

Harrison Clarke Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrison Clarke Group is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join a small, high-caliber team building AI-powered hospital workflow tooling. You’ll design, implement, and own core backend systems and agent orchestration platforms with a direct impact on clinical and operational workflows.

You will mentor others, influence architecture, and raise the bar on software quality, reliability, security, and observability in production environments, collaborating with domain experts to translate

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including senior or staff level.
• Experience designing and building complex distributed systems or backend platforms in production.
• Proven ability to drive technical clarity and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal oversight.
• Experience with modern backend technologies (Python, TS/Node, Go) and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Genuine interest in applying AI to healthcare or similar real-world domains.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust, scalable backend systems and agent orchestration platforms.
• Build production-grade software with focus on reliability, security, observability, and performance in healthcare environments.
• Own major technical initiatives end-to-end from architecture to deployment.
• Collaborate with domain experts to translate hospital workflows into AI agent capabilities.
• Mentor others and raise the engineering bar with code reviews and design docs.
• Contribute to system-level decisions around data pipelines and EHR integrations.

Skills

Backend design

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript/Node

Go

Cloud infrastructure

Communication

AI interest

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Harrison Clarke Group operates at the intersection of Search, Venture and Media. Since 2017, the Group has helped Founders and Investors build talent-dense companies through Harrison Clarke (Startup Search), ARKE (Mission-Critical Workforce Solutions), Harrison Clarke Ventures (Venture Capital) and Inside the Silicon Mind (Founder and Investor Media Platform).

Harrison Clarke (Startup System) have recently onboarded a new client into our search portfolio, who are building the future of healthcare operations. In simple terms, they build AI agents that help hospitals run more efficiently, reduce administrative burden, and improve patient outcomes.

They sit at the intersection of healthcare, AI agents, and enterprise workflow automation. The team is small, ambitious, and shipping fast. They are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who can raise the bar on technical excellence, system design, and product impact as they scale.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader on a small, high-caliber team. You will design, build, and own core systems that power AI agents used by real hospitals. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership: you will influence architecture, set engineering standards, mentor others, and ship production software that directly affects clinical and operational workflows.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement robust, scalable backend systems and agent orchestration platforms that power clinical, operational, and administrative automation.
• Build high-quality, production-grade software with a strong focus on reliability, security, observability, and performance in regulated healthcare environments.
• Own major technical initiatives end-to-end, from architecture and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
• Collaborate with domain experts to deeply understand hospital workflows and translate them into effective AI agent capabilities.
• Raise the engineering bar through code reviews, technical design documents, mentoring, and establishing best practices.
• Contribute to system-level decisions around data pipelines, integrations with EHR/hospital systems, evaluation frameworks, and long-term platform evolution.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time spent as a senior or staff-level engineer.
• Strong experience designing and building complex distributed systems or backend platforms in production.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous problems, drive technical clarity, and deliver high-quality solutions with minimal oversight.
• Experience with modern backend technologies (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node, Go, or similar) and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Genuine interest in applying AI to high-stakes, real-world domains like healthcare.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AI/ML systems, LLM applications, agent frameworks, or evaluation pipelines.
• Background in healthcare technology, EHRs, clinical workflows, or other regulated industries (HIPAA, etc.).
• Contributions to open source or public technical writing.