Staff Engineer, Backend

Who we are

Summer Health is on a mission to raise the healthiest generation by improving health outcomes for millions of children. We believe that every family and child deserves quick, reliable access to pediatric care when they need it most.

Summer Health is the first step and ongoing tool for anyone navigating health concerns, offering timely text access to high-quality healthcare professionals who provide expert answers and reliable advice over text.

Our investors include Sequoia, Lux, 7wire Ventures, Chelsea Clinton’s Metrodora Capital, Box Group and many more.

AI-powered technology is at the heart of our approach enabling us to scale our impact and bring our vision to life. AI is not just a part of our technology stack; it is woven into every facet of our operations, driving everything from internal processes to customer-facing solutions. Our team has developed a best-in-class healthcare experience that delivers quality care without compromising simplicity and security. We're now looking to expand our AI capabilities to enhance scalability and accessibility, ensuring healthcare remains frictionless.

We’re looking for exceptional engineers who share our passion for transforming pediatrics. We are outliers with a bias to action to raise the standard of care and what’s achievable. If you're a T-shaped engineer with a wealth of backend experience and excitement for building foundational AI platforms, we want you on our cross-functional team. Join us in our pursuit to make healthcare better and more accessible for children everywhere.

As a Staff Backend Engineer you will

• Be a thought leader in evolving distributed cloud-based systems and emerging technologies.

• Collaborate with product and clinical team members to understand the problems our providers and patients face.

• Propose, design and implement scalable solutions that help power our frictionless healthcare.

• Work with a small team of engineers to operate and maintain our event and workflow-based backend architecture.

• Model and uphold high standards for an inclusive and diverse engineering team.

You may be a fit for this role if you

• Have 6+ years of experience in software development.

• Demonstrate experience with event-driven, workflow and serverless architectures.

• Can turn complex problems and workflows into simple components that are scalable, resilient and distributed.

• Enjoy contributing full-stack to help our cross-functional team rally on goals.

• Adopt an AI-centric workflow and thinking approach to solutioning.

• Are opinionated on approaches and solutions but humble to adapt and learn the right tools for the problem and team.

• Have experience with HIPAA compliance or a willingness to learn.

• Thrive in a collaborative yet distributed working environment. Our team is distributed throughout the US with most in NYC and SF.

• Care deeply about providing the best care to the thousands of families using our platform to build the healthiest generation.

How we work

Summer Health is an AI-first and tech-forward healthcare company. We’re challenging the status quo with our approach to solutions and technology. We build faster healthcare solutions in a Typescript mono-repo with tools and frameworks like NestJS, Next.js, Temporal and Medplum.

You can find out more on how we approach problems in our dev blog: https://summer-health.github.io/ or in the case studies and publications featuring our team’s work:

• OpenAI customer story: https://openai.com/customer-stories/summer-health

• Medplum case study: https://www.medplum.com/blog/summer-case-study

• Ops I Did it Again podcast: https://www.outofpocket.health/podcasts/real-gen-ai-use-cases-in-healthcare-matthew-woo-co-founder-summer-health

We’ve got you covered

• Competitive base salary. Compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors like experience and expertise.

• Equity compensation. All of our offers include meaningful stock options.

• Non-accrual PTO. Take time off whenever you need it.

• Medical insurance. We cover 75% of your premium and 50% of your dependents’ premiums.

• Dental and vision insurance. We cover 100% of the premium for you and dependents.

• One Medical membership. One Medical is a members-only medical concierge platform accessible to all of our employees free of charge.

• Retirement 401(k). Save for retirement through our plan through Slavic.

• Workstation setup. We offer a one-time $250 stipend to make sure you can create a work environment that supports your unique needs.

• Monthly book club lunches. Reimburse monthly audible + lunch of your choice each month and enjoy it over Zoom with your lovely colleagues while discussing the book of the month.

• Parental leave. Twelve weeks of paid leave after 1 year at the company.