Senior Software Engineer

Brighterway is a VC-backed startup (YC S24) building AI-powered medical record review tools for the workers’ compensation ecosystem. We process 10M+ pages of medical records per month and are growing rapidly across national claims organizations.We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer with real industry experience, someone who has built and maintained production systems, seen them break, and knows how to scale them responsibly.This is a hands-on, high-ownership role. You’ll work directly with the founding team to design, build, and evolve core product systems across frontend, backend, and ML-adjacent workflows.Some Expectations For The Role IncludeProduction frontend applicationsBackend systems and APIsML-adjacent workflows (pipelines, inference orchestration, data quality)Scaling, reliability, and system design decisionsThis role is for someone who has seen things break in production, understands tradeoffs, and can help us build systems that scale cleanly as volume and customer complexity increase.You will have real ownership.What You’ll Work OnFrontendBuild and maintain complex, data-heavy web interfaces used by internal ops teams and external enterprise clientsWork with React (TypeScript), modern state management, and component systemsDesign workflows for reviewing, validating, and navigating large medical record datasetsCollaborate closely with ops, QC, and product to ship pragmatic, usable featuresBackendDesign and maintain backend services and APIs (Python preferred)Own data models, API contracts, and business logic that power ingestion, processing, and reviewBuild systems that handle high throughput, async processing, retries, and failure modesWork with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS), storage, queues, and background workersML-Adjacent / Data SystemsIntegrate with ML inference pipelines (LLMs, document processing, classification, extraction)Build tooling around quality control, auditing, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop reviewCollaborate with ML engineers on schema design, output validation, and deployment workflowsYou don’t need to train models (although it is a plus) but you must understand how ML systems behave in productionSystems & OwnershipMake architectural decisionsImprove reliability, observability, and performance as volume scalesIdentify tech debt before it becomes a bottleneckHelp set engineering standards and mentor more junior engineersWhat We’re Looking ForRequired3+ years of professional software engineering experienceStrong full-stack experience across frontend and backend in production environmentsStrong backend experience (Python preferred)Experience building and maintaining React-based frontends (TypeScript preferred)Comfort designing APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflowsExperience operating systems at scale and handling production incidentsAbility to reason through tradeoffs and make pragmatic architectural decisionsStrong PlusExperience working with ML or data-heavy systems in productionFamiliarity with LLM-powered workflows, document processing, OCR, or NLPExperience in healthcare, medical-legal, fintech, or other regulated environmentsPrior experience in a startup or small-team environment with high ownershipExperience designing internal tools for operations or quality control teamsWhy BrighterwayWork directly with founders on mission-critical systemsBuild AI-powered infrastructure that physicians and enterprise partners rely on dailyReal ownership and influence over product and technical directionCompetitive salary + meaningful equityFast-moving, execution-oriented environment with real customers and real scale