Senior Software Engineer, Web
Frontend-leaning senior engineer building Clinical Intelligence features (AI assistants, patient context, EHR-integrated workflows, audio-centric tooling) in Knowtex's healthcare web app. Stack is React, TypeScript, Node.js and Python Lambdas on AWS, incl. GovCloud; in-office 3 days/week in San Francisco.
- Compensation
- $180K–$220K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of experience building production web applications
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience building applications with React and Node.js
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
- Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Understanding of distributed systems and scalability concepts
- Strong debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Significant experience using agentic coding tools to aid in the SDLC
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Nice to have
- Experience in healthcare technology or regulated environments
- Experience building real-time or highly interactive web applications
- Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB
Full description
Knowtex.aiSenior Software Engineer, WebLOCATION
San Francisco, CA (in office 3 days a week)
EMPLOYMENT
Full-time, individual contributor
WORK AUTHORIZATION
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.; we are unable to sponsor visas for this role
About Knowtex.ai
Knowtex is the first frontier AI lab for healthcare that is building AI to save human lives. We built an AI system that executes the most complex workflows in medicine and empowers clinicians with clinical intelligence capabilities, so every patient can receive the best care possible.
Position Overview
We are seeking a frontend-leaning engineer to help build and scale Clinical Intelligence capabilities in our user-facing web application. You will work closely with Platform Engineering and customer-facing teams to build accessible, intuitive, and performant user experiences that support real-time AI workflows across enterprise healthcare environments.
This role is ideal for an engineer who has experience operating on small, high-impact teams with significant ownership and autonomy, including end-to-end execution on critical product features.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and expand core Clinical Intelligence experiences, including AI assistants, patient context, patient search, trial and drug eligibility, and other emerging workflows
- Build and scale client-side EHR-integrated features
- Maintain complex audio-centric workflows
- Develop accessible, intuitive, and performant user interfaces
- Develop secure and performant APIs and supporting infrastructure for web and mobile applications
- Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and customer delivery teams to prioritize bug fixes, improvements, and new feature development
- Participate meaningfully in technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews
- Improve system reliability, observability, and performance
- Handle engineering escalations from customer-facing teams, including investigating issues outside of your typical areas of responsibility
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building production web applications
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience building applications with React and Node.js
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs
- Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases
- Understanding of distributed systems and scalability concepts