Software Engineer (Applications Engineering)

Knowtex

San Francisco, California

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amplitude, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bug Tracking/Defect Management, Clinical Study Publications, Code Reviews, Communication Skills, Customer Escalations, Customer Relations, Debugging Skills, Distributed Computing, Healthcare, Internet Application, Mobile Applications, NoSQL, On Call, Problem Solving Skills, Product Design, Product Support, REST (Representational State Transfer), Relational Databases (RDBMS), Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Reliability, Systems Scalability, Technical/Engineering Design, User Experience Design (UXD), User Interface/Experience (UI/UX), Web Infrastructure, Web Production
LOCATION
San Francisco, California
POSTED
29 days ago

Position Overview

We are seeking a frontend-leaning engineer to help build and scale the user-facing web applications powering Knowtex’s AI-driven clinical documentation platform. You will work closely with Platform Engineering and customer-facing teams to build accessible, intuitive, and performant user experiences that support real-time voice AI workflows across enterprise healthcare environments.

This role is ideal for an engineer who has experience operating on small, high-impact teams with significant ownership and autonomy, including end-to-end execution on critical product features.

Key Responsibilities

  • Exercise strong engineering judgement in evolving or breaking from existing patterns when appropriate

  • Design and build user experiences, including complex audio-centric workflows

  • Develop accessible, intuitive, and performant user interfaces

  • Develop secure and performant APIs and supporting infrastructure for web and mobile applications

  • Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and customer delivery teams to prioritize bug fixes, improvements, and new feature development

  • Participate meaningfully in technical discussions, design reviews, and code reviews

  • Contribute to shared application infrastructure, component library, design system, and developer experience

  • Improve system reliability, observability, and performance

  • Handle engineering escalations from customer-facing teams during on-call shifts, including investigating issues outside of your typical areas of responsibility

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience building production web applications

  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript

  • Experience building applications with React and Node.js

  • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs

  • Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases

  • Understanding of distributed systems and scalability concepts

  • Strong debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in healthcare technology or regulated environments

  • Experience building real-time or highly interactive web applications

  • Experience operating effectively with limited product design support

  • Familiarity with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, and DynamoDB

Technical Environment

  • React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python (Lambda)

  • AWS cloud infrastructure (including GovCloud environments)

  • AI-enabled application platforms

  • CI/CD pipelines and containerized services

  • Observability and analytics tools (Amplitude, Sentry)

Compensation & Benefits

  • Meaningful equity compensation

  • Unlimited PTO

  • Premium health, dental, and vision coverage

  • 401(k) plan

About the Company

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