Software Engineer (Applications Engineering)

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