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Senior Software Engineer

Brighterway · San Francisco, CA, US · On-site

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About Brighterway

Streamlining the medical record review process in workers comp. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

This 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.

What they're looking for

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong full-stack experience across frontend and backend in production environments
  • Strong backend experience (Python preferred)
  • Experience building and maintaining React-based frontends (TypeScript preferred)
  • Comfort designing APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows
  • Experience operating systems at scale and handling production incidents
More about this role

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.

  • Production frontend applications
  • Backend systems and APIs
  • ML-adjacent workflows (pipelines, inference orchestration, data quality)
  • Scaling, reliability, and system design decisions

This 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.

  • Build and maintain complex, data-heavy web interfaces used by internal ops teams and external enterprise clients
  • Work with React (TypeScript), modern state management, and...

Read the full posting on Brighterway's site ↗

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