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title: 'Senior Platform Engineer at Translucent'
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# Senior Platform Engineer at Translucent

- **Company:** Translucent
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-05-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/translucent/jobs/4260194009

## Job description

## Why Translucent

Healthcare providers drive $2.5 trillion in medical expenditures annually — and operate on razor-thin 2–5% margins. Despite these stakes, the finance teams behind these organizations are buried in spreadsheets, manual data pulls, and disconnected systems, spending more time finding and cleaning data than actually using it to make decisions.

Translucent is changing that. We're building the agentic AI platform designed exclusively for healthcare finance— giving every finance team, department, service line their own arsenal of AI Agents that run 24/7, understand their specific data, business logic, and workflows.

Founded in 2024 and backed by GV, NEA, FPV, and Virtue, we've already been deployed by healthcare organizations managing over $5 billion in combined revenue. The product-market fit is real, the problem is massive, and we're just getting started. If you want to work at the intersection of AI and one of the most complex, consequential industries in the world — this is the place.

## About the role

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer focussed on supporting and enabling data and AI engineering in New York. You will build and maintain the foundational platform technology that enables our data and agentic AI systems and that form our product. You will build and help maintain infrastructure primarily in GCP and you will partner closely with other platform engineers and product engineers in keeping our core systems fast, correct, secure and well-tested.

This is a high-ownership role. You will work directly with a large group of product engineers in enabling our product teams to move fast.

## What you'll do

- Build and maintain well-tested applications in Python, Typescript and golang.
- Build and maintain kubernetes (GKE) deployments and workloads with our preferred gitops approach. We use github, ArgoCD and Kargo.
- Manage IaC on GCP.
- Build, help deploy and optimize applications using MongoDB Atlas, PostgresQL and Spanner as backing state stores.
- Document processes and work to optimize LLM-assisted coding workflows, including optimizing code review strategies.
- Partner with product engineers to support rapid feature development.
- Validate software is correct and secure.

## What we're looking for

Must-haves

- Experience with GCP
- Strong Kubernetes experience, preferably using GKE (autopilot & standard), strong understanding of the mechanics of workload scaling in GKE
- Strong experience with relational databases, managing migrations and experience with Mongo.
- Strong Python, golang and Typescript programming experience.
- Strong experience with IaC tooling (OpenTofu) - nice to have Atlantis.
- Strong grounding in the fundamentals of computation, logic, and algorithms.
- 5+ years of post-university industry experience

Nice-to-haves

- Prior experience in a heavily regulated domain like finance or healthtech.
- Experience with Vertex (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)
- Experience building and deploying agentic systems
- Experience building or maintaining Kubernetes operators
- Experience with honeycomb.io
- Experience with Backstage

Education

Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a quantitative discipline: computer science, mathematics, statistics, physical or life sciences, engineering.

Location

Union Square, New York City. In-office 4 days per week.

Anticipated compensation: $200,000 - $250,000 with Equity

## About Translucent

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Translucent is an agentic AI platform that serves as healthcare’s financial operating system, giving finance and clinical operators real-time visibility and root-cause analysis across claims, labor, clinical output, P&L, budgets, and contract economics.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, $27M led by GV in March 2026; total funding $34M)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jack O’Hara (CEO) and Max Jones (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare financial technology (Hospitals and Health Care)
- **Target customers**: B2B – health systems, medical groups, and hospitals (from large multi-billion-dollar organizations to small rural hospitals)
- **Mission/purpose**: Automate manual data work so healthcare finance teams can focus on moving the margin, giving hospitals the financial clarity to thrive while delivering excellent patient care.

## Products & Services
- **Translucent Platform**: A unified SaaS platform that connects six domains of financial truth – Claims, Labor, Clinical Output, P&L, Budget & Forecasts, and Contract Economics. AI agents analyze millions of scenarios in real time, delivering full traceability from enterprise totals to individual transactions. The platform enables finance teams to act on current data instead of waiting for month-end reports.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $34M (Seed $7M led by NEA in September 2025; Series A $27M led by GV in March 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: GV (Google Ventures), New Enterprise Associates (NEA), FPV Ventures, Virtue, Redesign Health
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 357% year-over-year (to 23 employees as of mid-2026); expanding from NYC to Australia; active hiring across engineering, insights, and delivery roles; strong LinkedIn follower growth (+8993% yearly); customer testimonials from CFOs at Northwestern Medicine and Sutter Health.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agentic AI at scale**: AI agents simultaneously analyze millions of scenarios across every dimension of healthcare finance – a scale no human team could achieve.
- **Unified data across six domains**: Breaks down silos between claims, labor, clinical output, P&L, budgets, and contract economics, providing full traceability.
- **Real-time, proactive decision-making**: 24/7 AI agents enable teams to act on current data, eliminating month-end reporting delays.
- **Force multiplication**: Customers report 97% of routine financial analysis completed without manual effort, 56% increase in charges from the same provider cohort, and 17% increase in finance team capacity without adding headcount.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the financial operating system for healthcare, deepening integration with health systems and expanding the agentic AI capabilities to cover more financial workflows. Recent Series A funding will accelerate product development and go-to-market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Iterate with Urgency” (ship real vs. perfect), “Default to Lean” (constraints as creative fuel), “Focus Relentlessly” (say no to good ideas), “Own the Outcome” (full responsibility), “Earn & Extend Trust” (transparency), and “Share Context Freely.”
- **Work environment**: NYC preferred for most roles; hybrid/office policy not explicitly stated but headquarters in New York.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Small, fast-growing team (23 people) with high ownership; technical stack includes Python, TypeScript, React, Java, Swift, Google Cloud, Vercel, Datadog, Prometheus, and more. Current open roles: Senior AI Engineer, Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, FP&A Applied Researcher, Healthcare Actuary Applied Researcher, Healthcare Economist Applied Researcher, Technical Recruiter.
- **Growth opportunity**: Joining at an early stage (founded 2024) with rapid headcount expansion and strong investor backing – opportunity to shape the product and culture.

## Sources
1. [translucent.ai](https://www.translucent.ai/)
2. [translucent.ai/careers](https://www.translucent.ai/careers)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/translucentai)
4. [Translucent Blog – Series A Announcement](https://www.translucent.ai/blog/translucent-ai-raises-27m-series-a-led-by-gv)
5. [Greenhouse Jobs Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/translucent)

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