Software Engineer (Applications Engineering)

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

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