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Software Engineer (Applications Engineering)

San Francisco Bay AreaPosted 7 days ago
Software engineeringMid-levelFull Time
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Position Overview

We are seeking a frontend-leaning engineer to help build and scale the user-facing web applications powering Knowtex’s AI-driven clinical documentation platform. You will work closely with Platform Engineering and customer-facing teams to build accessible, intuitive, and performant user experiences that support real-time voice 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

Exercise strong engineering judgement in evolving or breaking from existing patterns when appropriate

Design and build user experiences, including 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

Contribute to shared application infrastructure, component library, design system, and developer experience

Improve system reliability, observability, and performance

Handle engineering escalations from customer-facing teams during on-call shifts, including investigating issues outside of your typical areas of responsibility

Required Qualifications

3+ 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

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in healthcare technology or regulated environments

  • Experience building real-time or highly interactive web applications

  • Experience operating effectively with limited product design support

  • Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB

  • Technical Environment

  • React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python (Lambda)

  • AWS cloud infrastructure (including GovCloud environments)

  • AI-enabled application platforms

  • CI/CD pipelines and containerized services

  • Observability and analytics tools (Amplitude, Sentry)

Compensation & Benefits

Meaningful equity compensation

Unlimited PTO

Premium health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan

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