Staff Backend Engineer
About the role
The Staff Backend Engineer will influence and craft the roadmap for teams, ensuring technical excellence and an engineering organization that scales reliably with the business. They will work across the entire technology stack, including Python, Go, FastAPI, and Flask, leading technical planning and execution for new features. This position involves collaborating with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to translate requirements into intuitive and efficient UI solutions, and working directly with customers to solve their issues daily.
Responsibilities
- Influence and craft the roadmap for teams, ensuring technical excellence and an engineering organization that scales reliably with the business
- Work across the entire technology stack, including but not limited to Python, Go, FastAPI, and other frameworks
- Lead technical planning and execution for new features, balancing technical feasibility, usability, and business impact
- Design and refine systems to enforce best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to translate requirements into intuitive and efficient UI solutions
- Work directly with customers to solve their issues daily
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience
- Professional experience in software development
- Strong Backend Programming Skills (We use Python and Go)
- General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills and a history of demonstrated resourcefulness
- Track record of making successful architectural decisions to deliver multi-month, high-impact projects
- Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in environments where you have to ship quickly. We move fast and deploy daily
- Excitement to work in a high-impact field with a builder attitude!
- Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs
- Growth mindset and a motivation to grow
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience
Skills
- Backend Programming Skills (Python, Go)
- Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Debugging and Problem-Solving Skills
- Technical Planning and Execution
- User Experience Design
- Customer Collaboration
- High Impact Projects
- Communication Skills
- Builder Attitude
- User Experience Focus
- Growth Mindset
Benefits
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Competitive Compensation Range: $200K - $250K
- Health Insurance
- Retirement Plans
- Employee Assistance Programs
Pay
- $200K - $250K
Schedule
- Full-Time
Company Information
Commure is building the AI Operating System for healthcare, the foundation that defines how care is delivered, documented, and financed. Our platform spans the full care journey: Ambient AI and Dictation eliminating documentation burden at the point of care, intelligent Agents automating patient and revenue workflows, and autonomous RCM processing billions in claims, all on a single AI-native platform integrated with 60+ EHRs. Healthcare carries a $1 trillion administrative burden and we're at the center of transforming it. Today, 500,000+ clinicians across 500+ healthcare organizations nationwide trust Commure to handle $25B+ in annual claims and support over 200 million patient interactions. Our latest $70M raise at a $7B valuation reflects the confidence the market has placed in this mission. We've also been named to the Fortune Future 50 list and the 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards for “Overall NLP Company of the Year.” Our team works directly alongside clinicians, not through layers of process, which means the gap between what you build and its impact on patient care is immediate. We move fast, deploy daily, and take full ownership from early thinking to production. If you're energized by hard problems, high stakes, and a team that holds itself to a high bar, you'll find your people here. The future of healthcare is being built right now. Come deliver this transformation.