Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Engineering · Posted 5 months ago
We need a Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ YOE building production backend systems who has designed and maintained external-facing/public APIs that customers or partners depend on. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, greenfield environment with high ownership and have strong data modeling instincts, parti...
- Way of working
- Hybrid
- Location
- New York, NY
- Pay range
- $185,000 to $225,000
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Type
- Full time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered for this role
- The company
- Hospitals and Health Care · 20 to 50 people
Skills that matter here
What you would be doing
- Design and evolve Counsel Health's external API and embedded product layer, ensuring long-term stability, disciplined versioning, and enterprise-grade API craftsmanship for major healthcare clients like CVS
- Take ownership of critical platform primitives on the Platform & Integrations team, building the health data platform that ingests, reconciles, and exposes wearable, medication, lab, and EHR data across the entire application
- Work closely with enterprise partners' engineering teams to build and maintain tight-knit embedded integrations where Counsel sits inside their apps
- Contribute to core data models that unify structured health records, unstructured inputs, and high-frequency time-series signals into clean, durable abstractions
- Build pluggable ingestion frameworks that normalize data from third-party sources into canonical internal models with extensible adapters for new partner onboarding
- Shape the future of Counsel's backend architecture, evolving the platform as new integration patterns and client requirements emerge every few months
The full description
We need a Senior Backend Engineer with 6+ YOE building production backend systems who has designed and maintained external-facing/public APIs that customers or partners depend on. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced, greenfield environment with high ownership and have strong data modeling instincts, particularly around health data, time-series, or high-frequency signals. Bonus points if you have experience at a name-brand startup (Series B–D) or in healthcare/health tech.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve Counsel Health's external API and embedded product layer, ensuring long-term stability, disciplined versioning, and enterprise-grade API craftsmanship for major healthcare clients like CVS
- Take ownership of critical platform primitives on the Platform & Integrations team, building the health data platform that ingests, reconciles, and exposes wearable, medication, lab, and EHR data across the entire application
- Work closely with enterprise partners' engineering teams to build and maintain tight-knit embedded integrations where Counsel sits inside their apps
- Contribute to core data models that unify structured health records, unstructured inputs, and high-frequency time-series signals into clean, durable abstractions
- Build pluggable ingestion frameworks that normalize data from third-party sources into canonical internal models with extensible adapters for new partner onboarding
- Shape the future of Counsel's backend architecture, evolving the platform as new integration patterns and client requirements emerge every few months
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