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title: 'Senior Backend Engineer at Doctronic'
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# Senior Backend Engineer at Doctronic

- **Company:** Doctronic
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $85k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/doctronic/4ca33633-5f57-469d-b73d-a18f7c08bfac

## Job description

## SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER

Doctronic | New York City ONSITE (Hybrid) | Reports to CEO

## THE MISSION

Let's make healthcare free and accessible to everyone through AI. We need backend infrastructure that can scale our AI doctor platform to billions of consultations while maintaining medical safety and HIPAA compliance.

## WHAT YOU'LL BUILD

Healthcare API Infrastructure

- Scalable APIs using Python, FastAPI, AWS handling millions of monthly requests
- RESTful API development supporting our AI healthcare tools
- Real-time data processing for sensitive patient information (HIPAA-compliant)
- Internal API architecture for web platform and AI coordination

Integration & Data Systems

- Secure health record exchange with EHR systems, QHINs, healthcare networks
- Third-party integrations: telehealth providers, analytics platforms, healthcare APIs
- Large-scale sensitive data processing with encryption and compliance safeguards
- Partner API integrations across dozens of diverse healthcare systems

Scale & Reliability

- Database optimization for high-volume healthcare data with complex queries
- Redis for secure caching and session management in healthcare environments
- Error handling, failover systems, disaster recovery for mission-critical services
- Performance optimization for rapid user growth

AI System Integration

- Backend coordination for AI tools and decision-making workflows
- Python-based deterministic systems working alongside AI agents for clinical accuracy
- APIs supporting model inference, data preprocessing, result processing
- Infrastructure for AI safety: validation layers and human escalation protocols

You'll also work on healthcare compliance automation, advanced monitoring, multi-region deployment, and backend foundation for next-generation AI healthcare features.

## HOW WE WORK

- Engineering-first org: no project managers, just senior engineers
- Flat structure with direct CEO reporting and high autonomy
- Own features end-to-end from minimal specs to production
- AI coding tools encouraged
- Ship fast with good judgment; daily standups for alignment, not micromanagement

## REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education & Background

- CS degree OR equivalent demonstrated expertise
- Engineering, Math, or related technical degrees welcomed with strong programming foundation
- Preference for graduates from top programs at top universities
- Preference for founders, founding engineers, or extensive startup experience
- Independent problem solver who collaborates well cross-functionally

Technical Expertise

- 6+ years backend engineering with Python and API development
- FastAPI, Flask, or similar Python web frameworks
- Cloud services experience
- RESTful APIs, high-volume traffic handling
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and optimization
- Redis, caching strategies, distributed systems design

System Design & Integration

- Third-party API integrations and webhook management
- Microservices architecture and distributed system patterns
- Security best practices for sensitive data and API design
- CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), deployment automation
- Monitoring, logging, observability tools

## PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Systems for healthcare, fintech, or regulated industries
- Healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) and HIPAA compliance
- High-scale data processing and real-time systems
- AI/ML systems and model serving infrastructure
- Message queues, event-driven architectures, async processing
- Healthcare workflows, EHR systems, telehealth platforms
- Seed/Series A experience in healthcare or technology
- Advanced degree in CS, Engineering, or related field

## WHAT WE OFFER

- Competitive salary plus significant equity
- Build infrastructure transforming healthcare accessibility for millions
- Direct CEO reporting with significant autonomy
- Access to leading technologies and healthcare experts
- Benefits reimbursement
- Parental Leave: 12 weeks fully paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender or path to parenthood — no distinction between birthing and non-birthing parent

Funding & Momentum

- Union Square Ventures led our seed (Feb 2025)
- Lightspeed Venture Partners preempted our Series A six months later (Aug 2025)
- Abstract preempted our Series B five months later (Jan 2026)
- Significant equity stake in fast-moving, well-backed company

## ABOUT DOCTRONIC

Doctronic is the #1 AI Doctor, revolutionizing direct-to-patient healthcare through our proprietary AI system. Doctronic is the first AI legally authorized to practice medicine. We're processing millions of consultations monthly with 99%+ treatment plan accuracy validated by board-certified clinicians. Our platform (doctronic.ai http://doctronic.ai) provides free, anonymous, HIPAA-compliant AI consultations alongside affordable human physician visits ($40) available 24/7 across all 50 states via instant video, scheduled video, or async text.

## About Doctronic

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Doctronic is an AI-powered healthcare platform that provides free, anonymous, HIPAA-compliant medical consultations via an AI legally authorized to practice medicine, processing millions of consultations monthly.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded with $25M across Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Matt Pavelle (Co-founder & Co-CEO) and Dr. Afam (Adam) Oskowitz (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare AI / Telemedicine
- **Target customers**: B2C (patients seeking immediate medical guidance) and B2B (enterprise/employer health plans, as indicated by a Product Lead, Enterprise job posting)
- **Mission**: To make expert medical guidance available anytime, anywhere – no insurance, no waiting, and with an AI that remembers every detail.

## Products & Services
- **Doctronic AI**: A 24/7 AI doctor that delivers free, personalized health information, symptom checking, and action plans. It uses a multi-agent system that simulates internal debate among specialized agents before generating a recommendation. The service is anonymous (no account required), fully HIPAA-compliant, and achieved 99.2% treatment plan alignment with board-certified clinicians in a published study of 500 real-world cases [doctronic.ai/about](https://www.doctronic.ai/about/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $25.0M – $5M Seed round led by Union Square Ventures (April 2025), $20M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners (October 2025), and a subsequent Series B with investors including Abstract and Lightspeed [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai). Over 25 million AI-doctor visits processed [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Union Square Ventures, Abstract, Wittington, Mantis, Seven Stars, ARTIS, Tusk Venture Partners, HF0 [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 41 employees with a monthly growth rate of +9.6% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai). 14 active job postings (as of mid-2026) [jobs.ashbyhq.com/doctronic](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/doctronic). Expanding into enterprise solutions and telemedicine physician services. The company claims to be the first AI legally authorized to practice medicine, with authority expanding across all 50 states [doctronic.ai/about](https://www.doctronic.ai/about/).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover regulatory moat**: Legally authorized to practice medicine via AI, with expanding state-level authority.
- **Clinical accuracy**: 99.2% treatment plan alignment in a peer-reviewed study on 500 real-world cases.
- **Privacy-first**: Fully HIPAA-compliant, anonymous by default, no data sold, and encrypted storage.
- **Multi-agent AI system**: Uses internal debate between specialized agents to ensure structured, accountable reasoning [doctronic.ai/about](https://www.doctronic.ai/about/).

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding access**: Continuing to add capabilities and extend licensing to all 50 states to bring real-time AI physician access nationwide.
- **Enterprise growth**: Building a B2B product (Product Lead, Enterprise) to serve employer health plans and large organizations.
- **Scaling the team**: Actively hiring in engineering, AI, security, clinical operations, and marketing to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Work environment**: Hybrid office in New York City (110 E 25th St) and fully remote for all other locations [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai). Flexible time off.
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, mental health support. Competitive salaries plus equity for all employees [doctronic.ai/careers](https://www.doctronic.ai/careers).
- **Impact**: Build cutting-edge AI that transforms healthcare – processing millions of consultations and directly improving patient outcomes.
- **Team culture**: Empathy, accountability, and privacy are core values. Small, fast-growing team (41 people) with significant technical depth (35% of staff in technical roles) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai).
- **Growth opportunity**: 14 open positions ranging from engineering to clinical director, with a monthly headcount growth of nearly 10%. Early-stage equity offers significant upside.

## Sources
1. [doctronic.ai/about](https://www.doctronic.ai/about/)
2. [doctronic.ai/careers](https://www.doctronic.ai/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/doctronic-ai)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/doctronic](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/doctronic)

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