{"id":56547,"url":"https://alion.io/job/akasa-sr-software-engineer-backend","title":"Sr. Software Engineer, Backend","company":{"id":17828,"name":"Akasa","domain":"akasa.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/akasa","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States","San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":180000,"max":230000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":230000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"FastAPI","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQLAlchemy","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2025-11-23T03:02:24Z","employer_posted_date":"2025-11-23","last_verified_at":"2026-10-17T09:39:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":328,"trust":{"level":"stale","repost_count":0,"flags":["stale"],"days_open":328},"description":"About AKASA\nAKASA is building the future of healthcare by developing AI-native solutions for some of healthcare’s most complex, consequential work. Our customers include the most innovative health systems in the country, like Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, NewYork-Presbyterian, Duke, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. Our customer base represents 1 in 10 inpatient discharges across the United States and more than $180B+ in net patient revenue.\nOur products help health systems comprehensively capture and communicate the full patient clinical journey. By empowering health systems to streamline their operations, they can focus on what matters most - delivering quality patient care.\nWe train internal models and build domain-specific harnesses to power our products and best capture clinical nuance for each customer. We hire people with high agency and good judgment. Everyone here is an owner and builder who is looking to help solve high stakes challenges every day.\nWe have raised over $250M in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, and Coatue. Our deployments have been recognized nationally as \"one of the most comprehensive real-world uses of GenAI in healthcare finance to date\" (link). \nSome of our recent recognitions include being named one of America's Top Startup Employers 2026 by Forbes, a Top Healthcare Technology Company of 2026 by Healthcare Technology Report, the #1 most promising healthcare RCM startup of 2025 by Black Book Market Research, and we have been certified as a “Great Place to Work” for the past 6 years in a row.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Sr. Software Engineer, Backend, you will be building AI-powered solutions across our Clinical Documentation and Medical Coding suite. You will work closely with the product, design, and machine learning teams to design and build services, APIs, and tools that support our SaaS products. \nTogether with the broader team, you will work on AI-native products that correct clinical errors for hundreds of thousands of patients, and deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in measurable value for our customers.\nThese products improve the quality of physician documentation, help clinicians identify missing diagnoses, convert documentation to medical codes and ensure financial integrity for health systems. The interfaces you develop help thousands of clinicians and hospital staff tackle some of the most challenging and high-impact patient encounters in U.S. healthcare.\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild and land cutting-edge and novel experiences at large healthcare organizations\n\nCreate and maintain backend services and build on top of machine learning to solve challenging customer problems\n\nDesign, build, and maintain shared APIs, tools, services, and applications that help form the foundation of our technology ecosystem\n\nBring creative solutions to the table, knowledge-share with the team, and work together to shape our platform architecture\n\nLead and participate in design discussions, planning sessions, and code reviews\n\nPartner closely with our product, design, and machine learning teams\n\nMentor junior engineers on the team\n\nSkills & Qualifications\nBachelor of Science in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related field\n\n5+ years of professional experience in software development or machine learning\n\nSoftware engineering experience in Python is required\n\nProven track record with SaaS products\n\nStrong communication and interpersonal skills with meticulous attention to detail\n\nExperience building consumer applications on top of ML pipelines\n\nFamiliarity with FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Postgres\n\nProficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, AWS\n\nCI/CD experience with GitHub Actions\n\nFirm grasp of system design principles\n\nExperience with healthcare data exchange (FHIR, HL7, EDI) is a plus\n\nWhat We Offer\nFlexible paid time off (PTO)\n\nExpansive coverage for health, dental, and vision\n\nEmployer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)\n\nGenerous parental leave policy\n\nFull employee coverage for life insurance\n\nHome office stipend\n\nCell phone/internet reimbursement\n\nCompany-paid holidays\n\n401(K) plan\n\nCompensation\nBased on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $180,000-$230,000 + Equity. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.\n\nThe above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.\nWe’re committed to doing the best work of our lives, together. Come see if we're the right team for you.\nAKASA is a proud equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative. We welcome people of different backgrounds, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and perspectives, just to name a few. We do not discriminate based upon any protected class and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply. AKASA considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.\nAKASA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at .","description_format":"text","description_chars":5417,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Home office","Internet reimbursement","Life insurance","Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["LLM & Generative AI","Medical AI","Revenue Cycle & Medical Billing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2025-11-23T03:02:24Z"},{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T22:45:48Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":1,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":147500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.363,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":328,"expected_fill_days":59,"reasons":["conf:3","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":230000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/akasa-sr-software-engineer-backend","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/akasa-sr-software-engineer-backend.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-17T12:10:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":16074,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-18T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":17828},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=17828"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fakasa-sr-software-engineer-backend"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fakasa-sr-software-engineer-backend"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fakasa-sr-software-engineer-backend"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/akasa-sr-software-engineer-backend\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fakasa-sr-software-engineer-backend"}]}