Senior Software Engineer (Python)

About Alaffia Our Mission

Each year, the U.S. healthcare system suffers from over $500B in wasted spending due to medical billing fraud, waste, and administrative burden. At Alaffia, we’re on a mission to change that. We’ve assembled a team of clinicians, AI/ML engineers, and product experts to build advanced AI that finally bends the cost curve for all patients across our ecosystem. Collectively, we’re building best-in-class AI software to provide our customers with co-pilot tools, AI agents, and other cutting-edge solutions to reduce administrative burden and reduce healthcare costs. We’re a high-growth, venture-backed startup based in NYC.

About the Role & What You’ll Be Doing

Alaffia Health is a healthcare AI startup revolutionizing medical billing and data automation. Our AI-driven platform leverages state-of-the-art generative AI and machine learning technologies to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and compliance in medical billing and auditing. As we scale, we are seeking a Senior Python Backend Engineer to build cutting-edge AI products, drive innovation, and shape the future of healthcare automation.
You will have the opportunity to work with the latest cutting edge AI technologies while implementing features that directly impact healthcare organizations. You will be tasked to build the GenAI framework for the engineering team to build the AI agent on and lead the effort to scale our GenAI applications. In this role, you'll be building the future of healthcare automation while tackling challenging problems in web development, system design, and cloud infrastructure.

Requirements for the Role:

Collaborating cross functionally with other engineer disciplines, including fullstack, data, devops and AI engineers, as well as product, and business team to craft a feature-rich GenAI powered agentic workflow framework to speed up Alaffia Health’s AI agent development workflow
Designing, developing, and deploying data intensive applications with python in a production environment.
Required:
5+ years industry experience with large-scale and production-level API development and backend data processing
Developing test suites and working with CI/CD tooling for automation
Hands-on experience with relational databases and data model design.
Utilizing and improving observability practices that include logging and user activity metrics to integrate with Datadog and other observability tooling
Preferred experience:
Building SasS app in the healthcare sector
Building and deploying user facing AI products
Building python SDK / libraries
Experience with DevOps and cloud provider, such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
Experience with vector databases
Experience with data processing orchestrators, such as Airflow or Dagster
Experience with message queue system, such as AWS SQS, Kinesis or Kafka

Our Culture

At Alaffia, we fundamentally believe that the whole is more valuable than the sum of its individual parts. Further to that point, we believe a diverse team of individuals with various backgrounds, ideologies, and types of training generates the most value. Our people are entrepreneurial by nature, problem solvers, and are passionate about what they do — both inside and outside of the office.

What Else Do You Get Working With Us?

Competitive compensation package (cash + equity)
Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
Flexible, paid vacation policy
Work in a flat organizational structure — direct access to Leadership