Ambience Healthcare · 15 hours ago
Staff Backend Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $300K/yr
5+ years expAmbience Healthcare is the leading AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflow. As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain the core infrastructure that empowers healthcare providers using the platform.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareInformation TechnologyMedical
Responsibilities
Design and architect major product features leveraging the latest advancements in AI to deliver a magical user experience
Anticipate system bottlenecks and proactively re-architect key system components before they create issues for our customers
Lead product initiatives with high strategic value, accelerating speed of iteration while preventing accumulation of technical debt
Hold the codebase to a high standard, and assist in developing engineering processes that encourage shipping high quality code
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience tackling zero-to-one engineering challenges, building and scaling systems to meet production SLAs, and navigating architectural trade-offs in distributed systems
Proficient with modern infrastructure stacks, including cloud providers (AWS, GCP), containers (Docker), queuing systems (Kafka), and databases (Postgres), and flexible across the stack to deliver projects
Skilled at mentoring engineers while remaining hands-on, driving quality, execution speed, and successful outcomes as a technical leader or engineering manager
Demonstrated ability to own end-to-end execution, from concept to impactful results, with a focus on building breakthrough product experiences
Thrives in environments of complexity and ambiguity, prioritizing collaboration and seeking the best ideas regardless of their source
Values kindness, encouragement, and being a supportive teammate, fostering a mission-aligned and ambitious team culture
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision coverage
Quarterly retreats
Unlimited PTO
401(k) plan with matching
Company
Ambience Healthcare
Ambience Healthcare develops an AI operating system used for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows in healthcare organizations.
201-500 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$319.29MKey Investors
Andreessen Horowitz,Oak HC/FTKleiner Perkins,OpenAI Startup Fund
2025-07-29Series C· $243M
2024-02-06Series B· $70M
2022-04-25Series A
Leadership Team
Nikhil Buduma
Co-Founder & CEO
Michael Ng
President & Chairman
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