# Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Counsel

- Company: Counsel
- What the company does: Today, excited to get to know Dr. Muthu Alagappan, CEO and Founder of Counsel, the modern solution for access to care. Before founding Counsel, Muthu was the CMO of Notable Health for almost 4 years and was an Attending Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess... Backed by Pear VC.
- Company website: https://pear.vc/dr-muthu-alagappan-ceo-and-founder-of-counsel-on-defining-a-new-healthcare-paradigm-in-asynchronous-care/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York Office (Flatiron)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $185K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/counsel/cc81ba06-2dd8-408f-8aba-833f332e11cd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/counsel-senior-software-engineer-backend/

## About the role

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help define the future of AI-powered, human-led healthcare. You'll sit on our Platform & Integrations team, owning the core product primitives the rest of the company builds on: external APIs, health data models, retrieval infrastructure, and enterprise integrations.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years building production backend systems, ideally in high-growth environments
- Experience designing and maintaining external-facing APIs used by customers or partners
- Strong data modeling instincts, particularly around time-series or high-frequency data
- Experience working with distributed systems and multi-tenant architectures
- Comfort contributing to greenfield architectural design while shipping pragmatically

Tags: Engineering