Fathom · 1 month ago
Backend Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$180K/yr - $240K/yrFathom is a company focused on enhancing meeting experiences through AI technology. They are seeking a Backend Engineer to improve the reliability and scalability of their services while contributing to a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)BillingMachine LearningMedicalSoftware
Responsibilities
Contribute to our collection of highly-scalable services (some stateless, some stateful). Our services run in multiple regions, are engineered to support spiky but predictable workloads, and are deployed via multi-stage rollouts to build confidence in the correctness and efficiency of changes
By 30 Days Use your background to understand and improve existing services under the supervision of existing team members
Analyze the cost models of our services and suggest areas of and strategies for new operational efficiencies
By 90 Days Lead the development of new services such as (1) a k8s operator to control a service’s lifecycle or (2) a cloud storage caching layer
Play a key role in technology evaluations and architecture evolution discussions
Harden and productize internally or externally developed libraries and services
By 1 Year Work with our infrastructure and application engineers to re-evaluate the relationship between our backend services and our user-facing application, and drive improvements of scalability without introducing unnecessary friction
Qualification
Required
Proficiency with k8s and Go, including a strong understanding of garbage collection and profiling
Familiarity with our tech stack (or equivalents): GCP/GKE, Linux, Docker, Ruby/Rails, Redis, ffmpeg
Experience in a SaaS or PaaS environment at our scale (currently 100s of millions of async jobs per week)
Curiosity-driven and pragmatic with a focus on delivering results
A generalist mindset with the ability to dive deep into a wide range of challenges
Resilience, attention to detail, and an ability to grind through complex problems
Openness to disagreement and commitment to decisions once made
Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to explain complex insights in an accessible manner to both technical and non-technical audiences
Independence in managing one's workload and priorities
Preferred
Experience with Cgo is a bonus
Experience with video streaming at scale is a bonus
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits
The opportunity to shape the foundational software services of a growing company
A role that balances innovation and incremental improvement
A dynamic and collaborative engineering team
A supportive environment that encourages innovation and personal growth
Opportunity for impact
Opportunity for learning
Startup experience
We embrace being fully remote
Company
Fathom
Fathom develops medical coding automation platform powered by artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2016
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (2)
2024 (5)
2023 (2)
2022 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$60.86MKey Investors
Inflect HealthCedars-Sinai AcceleratorWinklevoss Capital
2022-11-09Series B· $46M
2022-04-25Series Unknown
2021-02-18Series Unknown· $0.05M
Leadership Team
Andrew Lockhart
Cofounder & CEO
C
Christopher Bockman
CTO & Cofounder
Recent News
2025-12-01
2025-11-08
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