Axle Health · 18 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Santa Monica, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expAxle Health is a company that builds scheduling and workforce management software for in-home healthcare providers. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Backend systems to design and implement technical processes and systems that enhance their logistics platform.
Health CareHome Health Care
Hiring Manager
Andii Lee
Responsibilities
Design and develop platform capabilities enabling integrations with Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems
Lead efforts to optimize service orchestration, data flow, and performance
Drive high standards for security, testability, observability, and deployment automation
Architect high volume systems that will support hundreds of thousands of patients
Design and maintain modern, developer-friendly APIs and SDKs and documentation
Collaborate with and lead other engineers to build performant, scaleable, and secure systems
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree
5-7+ years of software engineering experience
Expertise building backend systems in Python (1-2 years) and Node + TypeScript (1-2 years)
Hands-on experience designing relational database schemas and migrations for scalability, extensibility, performance, and stability
Experience managing customer-facing APIs through versioning, deprecation cycles, and customer migration paths
Proven ability to diagnose and fix performance bottlenecks in database-backed applications
Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, and build systems
Strong communication skills to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders
Experience working in high growth, fast paced startup environments
Preferred
Experience working with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and/or healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR / HL7)
Experience building systems managing HIPAA compliant data or similar compliance driven industries with data security requirements
Experience building scalable, observable distributed systems
Experience building ETL pipelines to extract from multiple source systems and load into cloud-based data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) to support analytics and reporting needs across the organization
Benefits
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision
401k plan
Flexible PTO, sick days, and working hours
Santa Monica HQ with 180 degree beach views and daily catered lunches
Fast paced work environment geared towards professional growth
Get the chance to move roles within the organization to learn new skills and continue to make an impact
Monthly team events, dinners, & happy hours
Special team outings - some past events have included: yacht cruises, visits to Universal Studios, Magic Castle, and Vegas
Company
Axle Health
Scheduling and workforce management software for home health care providers
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$14.4MKey Investors
F-PrimePear VCY Combinator
2025-05-22Series A· $10M
2024-02-22Seed· $1.6M
2021-08-07Seed· $2.6M
Leadership Team
Adam Stansell
CEO
Recent News
2025-11-27
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