About the job
About Abridge
Founded in 2018, Abridge is dedicated to transforming healthcare through advanced technology. Our AI-driven platform enhances the clarity of medical dialogues, streamlining clinical documentation and allowing healthcare providers to prioritize patient care.
Our enterprise-level technology converts patient-clinician interactions into organized clinical notes instantaneously, with sophisticated EMR integrations. Utilizing Linked Evidence and our uniquely designed, auditable AI, we stand out as the only provider mapping AI-generated summaries to verified data, empowering clinicians to trust and validate our outputs. As leaders in generative AI for healthcare, we are establishing benchmarks for the ethical use of AI in health systems.
Our diverse team comprises practicing physicians, AI researchers, PhDs, creatives, technologists, and engineers, all collaborating to enhance healthcare understanding. We operate out of vibrant locations in San Francisco's Mission District, New York's SoHo, and Pittsburgh's East Liberty.
The Role
Join our innovative engineering team as a Senior Backend Engineer, where your expertise will help us build the data and processing infrastructure essential for our ongoing expansion. You will be a key player in a newly formed team, predominantly working with Typescript and Node, deploying on platforms like Kubernetes and Temporal.
What You'll Do
Design, develop, and maintain robust cloud-native applications, services, and APIs critical for our rapidly expanding operations. Potential projects may involve creating new processing pipelines or revamping our data storage solutions to accommodate growing demands.
Evaluate commercial and open-source solutions, providing build vs buy recommendations to enhance our technological capabilities.
Refine existing systems to introduce new features and enhance performance, stability, quality, and security, while also contributing to the overall codebase health.
Foster a deep understanding of user needs, maintaining a user-focused approach in all developments.
Facilitate effective communication within cross-functional product delivery teams, collaborating with colleagues from product, machine learning, and platform engineering as you contribute to diverse projects across the organization.
What You’ll Bring
- Strong experience in backend development, particularly with Typescript and Node.
- Familiarity with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Proven ability to enhance existing systems and tackle technical challenges effectively.

