3Y Health · 3 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$205K/yr - $250K/yr
5+ years exp3Y Health is developing an AI business manager to streamline healthcare administration and empower clinician entrepreneurs. The Staff Software Engineer, Backend will design and scale high-performance backend systems for their AI-first platform, ensuring service reliability and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC, GraphQL) that power our AI-driven healthcare platform
Collaborate with frontend, product, and design teams to translate product requirements into robust technical solutions
Integrate AI capabilities into services—building pipelines, managing inference, or orchestrating external AI APIs
Ensure service reliability by implementing best practices in deployment, monitoring, observability, logging, and continuous integration
Operate production systems end-to-end, including deployment, incident response, performance tuning, and cost optimization
Handle sensitive and regulated data (healthcare, payments) with strong attention to security, privacy, and compliance
Document technical process and create standard operating procedure within the engineering team
Drive backend architecture decisions, influencing system design, data models, and service interfaces
Mentor and elevate team capability, sharing best practices and helping to scale backend engineering excellence
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required
5+ years of experience in backend engineering roles
Proficiency in one or more backend languages: Go, Java, Python, TypeScript
Deep knowledge of modern API protocols: REST, gRPC, GraphQL
Experience supporting production systems end-to-end: development, deployment, monitoring
Ability to work 5 days a week in our New York office with a fully in-person team
Preferred
Bonus: exposure to AI/ML services, whether through API integration or internal tooling
Bonus: experience with regulated data domains like healthcare or financial services
Benefits
Stock options
Company
3Y Health
At 3Y, we believe clinician entrepreneurs are the future of healthcare.
51-200 employees
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