Athelas

Software Engineer, Early Career 2027

Athelas$90K — $110K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, recent graduate or upcoming graduate.
  • Strong grasp of algorithms, data structures, operating systems, databases, and networking.
  • Experience with software development through internships, research, or substantial projects outside of coursework.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across system layers.
  • Curiosity about complex systems and how they integrate and operate together.
  • High ownership and willingness to learn new technologies quickly.

Responsibilities

  • Build product features for web, mobile, and backend applications, including offline capabilities.
  • Develop reliable APIs and backend services for high-volume clinical workflows.
  • Create data processing pipelines for complex healthcare data.
  • Improve AI infrastructure including inference pipelines and quality evaluation.
  • Enhance application performance, reliability, and scalability through observability and monitoring.
  • Design internal tools to streamline engineering processes and improve system operations.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and clinical teams to identify and solve real-world problems.

Benefits

  • Engage in meaningful projects with significant responsibility from day one.
  • Opportunity to learn from experienced engineers in a supportive environment.
  • Diverse project areas, from AI to clinical and revenue cycle management.
  • Direct impact on healthcare systems used by clinicians every day.
  • Possibility to work closely with users and observe the immediate impact of your work.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're looking for early career Software Engineers to join our engineering team. You'll work alongside experienced engineers across backend, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure, while owning meaningful production systems and product features from the beginning.

This is a role for someone who wants to learn quickly, take on significant responsibility, and build systems used by clinicians every day. Team placement will vary, but examples could include:

AI & Agents: Build an AI-powered workflow that helps healthcare teams automate repetitive administrative work.

Clinical: Develop features that help clinicians spend less time documenting and more time with patients.

Revenue Cycle Management: Build software that helps healthcare practices automate billing workflows and improve their financial operations.

Platform & Infrastructure: Improve the reliability, observability, or scalability of services supporting thousands of healthcare organizations.

Product Engineering: Build end-to-end features across React, APIs, backend services, and databases that are used by healthcare providers every day.

What You'll Do
  • Building product features across our web, mobile, and backend applications, including offline-first experiences for healthcare professionals
  • Developing reliable APIs and backend services that support high-volume clinical workflows
  • Building data processing pipelines for handling complex, high-volume healthcare data
  • Building and improving AI systems: inference pipelines, orchestration (fallbacks, retries, async workflows), and quality evaluation infrastructure
  • Improving monitoring, observability, alerting, debugging, and overall application performance, reliability, and stability
  • Designing internal tools that make engineers faster and production systems easier to operate
  • Working directly with product, design, clinical, and customer-facing teams to understand real-world problems and ship solutions


What You Have
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, graduating recently or within the upcoming academic year
  • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, operating systems, databases, networking, or distributed systems
  • Experience building software through internships, research, open-source projects, coursework, startups, or personal projects-ideally something substantial outside of coursework
  • Ability to write clean, understandable, and maintainable code
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills, especially across multiple layers of a system
  • Curiosity about how complex systems work beyond the component you are directly working on
  • Care about reliability and performance, not just getting a feature to work once
  • High ownership-you care about whether the thing you built actually works for users in production
  • Willingness to learn unfamiliar technologies and move quickly
  • Prefer ownership and autonomy over narrowly scoped tickets
  • Want to work close to users and see the impact of your work quickly
  • Strong communication and ability to work closely with engineers and non-engineers


Our Technical Environment

You may work with technologies including:
  • Languages & Frameworks: Python, TypeScript, Dart, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React, and native mobile platforms
  • Infrastructure & Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, cloud object storage, Kubernetes, containers, distributed queues, and data processing pipelines
  • AI Systems: LLM inference and orchestration pipelines, AI evaluation infrastructure
  • Observability & Testing: Monitoring, logging, tracing, production observability, and automated testing

About Athelas

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2016

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