# Senior Backend Engineer, Ambient AI at Athelas

- Company: Athelas
- What the company does: Athelas is the AI-driven RCM, EHR, and ambient AI platform to grow your healthcare business. Backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.athelas.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $170K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Commure/fe3e0991-d9e7-4948-ac30-c0caf8d7bae5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/athelas-senior-backend-engineer-ambient-ai/

## About the role

We’re building a next-generation ambient AI platform for healthcare, helping clinicians focus on patient care by automatically capturing, understanding, and structuring clinical conversations.

## What they're looking for

- 4+ years of professional backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- Experience designing, building, and operating production distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language
- Experience with asynchronous processing, message queues, event-driven systems, or durable workflow execution
- A strong understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as idempotency, consistency, concurrency, backpressure, retries, failure isolation, and eventual completion
- Experience operating services in a cloud environment, including deployment, monitoring, scaling, and incident response

Tags: Engineering