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Backend Software Engineer

Newlantern · San Francisco · On-site

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About Newlantern

One workspace for worklist, viewer, and AI-powered reporting. New Lantern replaces disconnected radiology systems with a single platform. Backed by Menlo.

About the role

Take on end-to-end ownership for delivering a best-in-class radiology platform. Solve user problems by shipping reliable and efficient features and improvements, often using Python and Django.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of progressive experience building and maintaining complex, high performance web applications running in cloud environments
  • Solid experience with Python and a Python web framework (ideally Django) as well as the supporting dev tools ecosystem
  • Well-practiced debugging and problem-solving skills, and a thorough understanding of the abstractions you typically build on top of
  • A product engineering mindset with a bias to talk to users frequently and ship iteratively
  • An end-to-end ownership mindset across design, implementation, testing, and monitoring
  • Experience using AI/LLM-based tools for developing software and solving software problems (e.g. Claude Code/Cursor/Codex/Copilot/OpenCode/etc.)
More about this role

New Lantern is building an AI radiology resident—think Cursor for radiologists. Our application integrates the three software tools radiologists use all day [1], together with AI, to create a platform that saves radiologists toil and lets them focus on reading images and finding disease.

As a backend software engineer working on our radiology platform, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining a reliable, high performance server application that enables our product, including receiving and processing radiology image data, running LLM inference tasks to assist users, and transmitting completed medical reports, as well as providing all of the standard services needed by a modern web application.

Take on end-to-end ownership for delivering a best-in-class radiology platform.

Solve user problems by shipping reliable and efficient features and improvements, often using Python and Django.

Collaborate with radiologists, clinical staff, and IT staff to discover requirements, build prototypes, and validate solutions.

Improve application quality and reliability with pre-deployment automated testing, robust error handling, and graceful error recovery.

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