Counsel

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

New York Office (Flatiron), Remote. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will sit on the Platform & Integrations team to own core product primitives including external APIs, health data models, retrieval infrastructure, and enterprise integrations. You will design external APIs, evolve retrieval harnesses, and build reusable platform primitives.

What you will do

  • Design and evolve external API and embedded product layer
  • Evolve agentic retrieval harness to support patient and clinical search
  • Build reusable platform primitives for external partners
  • Contribute to core data models for health records and time-series signals

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years building production backend systems
  • Experience designing and maintaining external-facing APIs used by customers or partners
  • Strong data modeling instincts, particularly around time-series or high-frequency data
  • Experience working with distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures

Nice to have

  • ideally in high-growth environments

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare
  • vision + dental
  • 401K
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Parental Leave

Before you apply

  • All newly hired employees are processed through the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility

About the company

Counsel is building a fully-vertical, AI-native medical group to multiply healthcare capacity. The company has raised over $35M from firms including a16z, Google Ventures, and Pear VC.