Staff Software Engineer (Python)

Remote
Engineering – Engineering (US) /
Full-time /
Remote
About Augmedix:

Augmedix (Nasdaq: AUGX) delivers industry-leading, ambient medical documentation and data solutions to healthcare systems, physician practices, hospitals, and telemedicine practitioners.
 
Augmedix is on a mission to help clinicians and patients form a human connection by seamlessly integrating our technology at the point of care. Augmedix’s proprietary platform digitizes natural clinician-patient conversations, which are converted into comprehensive medical notes and structured data in real time. The company’s platform uses automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing, including large language models, to generate accurate and timely medical notes that are transferred into the EHR. 
 
Augmedix’s products relieve clinicians of administrative burden, in turn, reducing burnout, increasing clinician efficiency and improving patient access. Through Augmedix’s proprietary platform and bi-directional communication channel, Augmedix is ideally suited to serve as the vehicle for change at the point of care.
 
Augmedix is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices around the world. To learn more, visit www.augmedix.com.

About the Role:

Data is the life-blood of our AI platform and the Software Engineer (Python) will build data pipelines to power our ML models, including data collection, warehousing, segmentation, validation and normalization. The Software Engineer (Python) will be empowered to own these pipelines and be an integral part of the AI team.

Responsibilities:

    • Primary responsibility will be developing and maintaining backend services on AWS and GCP
    • Create data pipelines from concept through prototyping, development, and deployment
    • Build robust and scalable infrastructure to support needs of internal and external users
    • Build, test and deploy cloud-based software in a continuous delivery environment
    • Identify and resolve performance and scalability issues
    • Troubleshoot production issues quickly and efficiently 
    • Strong interest to remain up to date on relevant technologies, industry
    • standards, trends and identify potential implementation candidates

Requirements:

    • BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering degree 
    • 8+ years coding in Python
    • 8+ years of experience in cloud services (e.g. serverless, SQL/noSQL databases, Kinesis, SQS, ELK, Kubernetes, Lambda, Cloud Functions)
    • Experience with Microservices and containerized deployment using Docker and Kubernetes
    • Strong verbal and written communication with developers and business leaders
    • Experience with unit testing & Test Driven Development (TDD)
    • Significant experience with the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
    • Familiarity with Amazon Web Service and/or Google Cloud Platform
Augmedix is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, gender identity, race, religious creed, color, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation including being transgender and/or any other protected bases.