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SalaryAbout Alaffia & Our Mission
Alaffia Health has built the future of automated healthcare claims processing and is looking for the next addition to our backend API development team. Alaffia is a team of dedicated and passionate engineers who work as a unit to deliver the best in industry software centered around algorithmic and AI processing for maximum automation.
The Alaffia technical team lives at the cutting edge of the possibilities and is constantly pushing the boundaries of both data science and software development. The Alaffia engineering team is developing the latest techniques and tools to provide the most value and impact to the healthcare industry and medical claim reviews, with objective truth and accuracy as the guiding principles. We pride ourselves on quality, teamwork, and service. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to build a healthcare claim review platform with real social and economic impact. You’ll be making a dent in the struggles of our nation’s healthcare system from your first day.
Our Culture
At Alaffia, we fundamentally believe that the whole is more valuable than the sum of its individual parts. Further to that point, we believe a diverse team of individuals with various backgrounds, ideologies, and types of training generates the most value. Our people are entrepreneurial by nature, problem solvers, and are passionate about what they do — both inside and outside of the office.
About the Role & What You’ll Be Doing
As an Alaffia Health Senior TypeScript Services Engineer, you'll become an integral part of our forward-thinking backend API development team. In this role, you'll contribute to the evolution of automated healthcare payment processing, collaborating with passionate engineers dedicated to delivering cutting-edge software solutions. Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our platform while making a meaningful impact on the efficiency and accuracy of healthcare payments nationwide.
Your Responsibilities
- Write production-level backend services in TypeScript
- Use technologies like GraphQL and PostgreSQL to create flexible, performant APIs
- Build end-to-end services leveraging data science techniques
- Develop engineering solutions to identify improper charges and patterns of fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare payments
- Engage in infrastructural and architectural decisions to support real-time updates and platform scalability
- Collaborate with backend and machine learning engineers to implement new APIs and services
- Work closely with the Auditing team to incorporate expertise into web app features and core technology development
- Architect and rearchitect new and existing patterns to support the evolving Alaffia ecosystem
What We’re Looking For
- 6-10 years of experience in a backend service development role
- Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, NodeJS, and ExpressJS
- Experience with GraphQL and PostgreSQL
- Experience with Jest or Vitest
- Self-starter with experience leading small teams
- Deep database knowledge and data storage optimization knowledge using Postgres or similar
- Experience developing and deploying production-level APIs and Services
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps teams
- Ability to translate application requirements into API specifications and data models
- Familiarity with logging technologies and debugging production applications
- Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud providers
- Architectural design experience and data model design experience
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, GitHub, CI/CD using GitHub Actions
What Else Do You Get Working With Us?
Hybrid work environment - work from the office and home
Employer-sponsored Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
Flexible, paid vacation policy
Work in a flat organizational structure — direct access to Leadership
Please note: Alaffia Health does not provide employment sponsorships at this time.
