Staff Software Engineer [Remote]

About Cleerly

We’re Cleerly – a healthcare company that’s revolutionizing how heart disease is diagnosed, treated, and tracked. We were founded in 2017 by one of the world’s leading cardiologists and are a growing team of world-class engineering, operations, medical affairs, marketing, and sales leaders. We raised $223M in Series C funding in 2022 which has enabled rapid growth and continued support of our mission. In December 2024 we received an additional $106M in a Series C extension funding. Most of our teams work remotely and have access to our offices in Denver, Colorado, New, York, New York, Dallas, Texas, and Lisbon, Portugal with some roles requiring you to be on-site in a location. 

Cleerly has created a new standard of care for heart disease through value-based, AI-driven precision diagnostic solutions with the goal of helping prevent heart attacks. Our technology goes beyond traditional measures of heart disease by enabling comprehensive quantification and characterization of atherosclerosis, or plaque buildup, in each of the heart arteries. Cleerly’s solutions are supported by more than a decade of performing some of the world’s largest clinical trials to identify important findings beyond symptoms that increase a person’s risk of heart attacks. 

At Cleerly, we collaborate digitally and use a wide variety of systems. Our people use Google Workspace (GMail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides), Slack, Confluence/Jira, and Zoom Video, prior experience in these areas is a plus. Role or department specific technology needs may vary and will be listed as requirements in the job description. 

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our team in developing scalable, high-performance systems that power next-generation quantitative computer-aided diagnosis applications. In this role, you’ll work closely with product and infrastructure teams to design, build, and maintain robust APIs, data pipelines, and backend services that drive our core platform.

TTC*: $212,000 - $246,000

*Total Target Compensation (TTC): Total Cash Compensation (including base pay, variable pay,
commission, bonuses, etc.). We hire employees anywhere within the United States and account
for geography when determining base salary.

Responsibilities

You’ll contribute to all facets of the Cleerly platform focusing on scale, performance, and reliability. You’ll work with our engineers, data science team, and a variety of inter-departmental stakeholders to improve our core product experiences. We’re focused on enhancing our ability to execute complex algorithms at scale and bring enterprise workflows for healthcare to life. On any given day you could be doing one of the following:

• Defining and driving the technical vision and roadmap for key areas of the platform, ensuring alignment with overall company objectives.
• Evaluating and recommending new technologies, architectural patterns, and development methodologies to enhance system capabilities and efficiency.
• Driving architectural discussions and decisions across multiple teams, ensuring scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Collaborating with product management to translate complex business requirements into robust technical designs and actionable engineering plans.
• Implementing scalable solutions to complex business rules with care to drive precision heart care
• Solving highly complex and ambiguous technical challenges that span multiple systems or domains, often involving significant intangibles.
• Identifying opportunities for innovation and leading initiatives to explore and implement novel solutions to critical business problems.
• Developing and delivering technical presentations, workshops, or documentation to disseminate advanced knowledge and best practices across the engineering team.
• Taking ultimate ownership for the successful delivery and operational excellence of critical platform components or features.
• Working with the AI team to performance-tune image-based machine learning algorithms 
• Performing code reviews, ensuring great unit test coverage and driving bug triage
• Participating in sprint planning and design meetings

The ideal candidate will have a demonstrated foundation of agile, secure software development methodologies and be motivated and dedicated to the goal of providing a safe, high-quality product that is used to diagnose and treat patients in the real world.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of software development experience
• Excellent knowledge of Python, TypeScript, or another OO or Functional programming language
• Experience with server-side web & microservices frameworks such as Node.js and Express
• Experience in designing and evolving complex software architectures
• Ability to apply and implement best practice design patterns for code maintainability
• Demonstrable capability in designing, implementing, and securing RESTful web services
• Strong SQL developer skills, including experience in Postgres, NoSQL, Redis, or similar
• Experience with AWS, GitHub, and continuous integration pipelines
• Experience in digital health (medical devices/imaging), and familiarity with HIPAA/HITRUST security requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

Impress us more

• Experience in digital health, specifically with medical devices or medical imaging
• Experience with gRPC and service-to-service communication protocols & best practices
• Familiarity with HIPAA/HITRUST security requirements

Working at Cleerly takes HEART. Discover our Core Values:

• H: Humility - be a servant leader
• E: Excellence - deliver world-changing results
• A: Accountability - do what you say; expect the same from others
• R: Remarkable - inspire & innovate with impact
• T: Teamwork - together we win

Don’t meet 100 percent of the qualifications? Apply anyway and help us diversify our candidate pool and workforce. We value experience, whether gained formally or informally on the job or through other experiences. Job duties, activities and responsibilities are subject to change by our company.

OUR COMPANY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.

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