Staff Software Engineer

About Amigo

Amigo partners with healthcare organizations to deploy robust AI infrastructure that directly serves patients and providers. Our agents handle clinical workflows and patient engagement across the entire journey: pre-visit intake, care navigation, post-visit care plans, patient monitoring, and more.

We're fresh off our Series A backed by Tier 1 investors like Madrona, General Catalyst, and Optum Ventures. Our work is validated with leading academic medical institutions. Our agents have reached 3M+ patient encounters and are on track to 10x this year.

About this role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Amigo, you'll take on the hardest technical problems in the platform behind our AI agents. You'll set the architecture that other engineers build on, own problems that start out ambiguous, and shape how the team builds. The team is small, so the work you do here carries a long way.

We care about depth and judgment more than any particular stack. Whether your background leans full-stack, backend, infrastructure, or data, there is hard work here that needs an owner.

What you might work on

Designing the systems that keep AI agents reliable and safe in production healthcare

Owning a hard, ambiguous problem and carrying it through to a shipped system

Setting the patterns and standards the rest of engineering builds within

Making platform-level calls about what to build, what to buy, and what to cut

Digging into the hardest reliability, performance, or data problems we have

Mentoring senior engineers

You may be a fit if

You've designed and delivered complex systems end to end, and other engineers have built on top of your work

You're deep in at least one area (full-stack, backend, infrastructure, or data) and can range across the others

You care about whether systems hold up in production

You know when to simplify, and you think about direction before speed

You're low ego, direct, and hold yourself to a high bar

You can work hybrid out of our New York City office, or fully remote

Nice to have

Experience in a regulated or high-reliability domain (healthcare, finance, legal)

Experience with production AI or ML systems

Background with high-scale data systems or infrastructure

Experience mentoring or leading engineers

Benefits (available to Full-Time Employees)

Health & Wellness

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance

Daily catered lunch and dinner

Mental health support and wellness coaching

Flexible wellness stipend for fitness, therapy, or personal growth

Growth & Development

Annual learning budget for courses, books, or conferences

Conference attendance budget for professional development

Annual team offsite

Academic collaboration opportunities

Unlimited PTO

Our Core Values

Patients Win, We Win

If patients aren't getting better care, we haven't earned the right to scale. Every internal decision gets pressure-tested: does this make patients' lives better? If we can't draw the line, we question why we're doing it.

High Standards, High Care

We hold a high bar for the team because patients are counting on us to get this right. But high standards only work with genuine investment in each other. You can take risks, admit mistakes, and challenge ideas - not despite our standards, but because of them.

Thoughtful Urgency

We move fast by default, but speed without judgment is recklessness. The discipline is knowing which decisions are reversible vs. not. In healthcare AI, the companies that win will be fast everywhere they can be and careful everywhere they must be. We build the muscle to do both.

Intensely Measured

We instrument patient outcomes, provider ROI, system performance, and clinical accuracy. But data without action is surveillance. Every metric should have an owner, a threshold, and a response plan. If we're measuring something but never acting on it, we stop measuring it.

Who Builds With Us

Low ego: Politics and territory don't interest you. The best ideas win, regardless of who has them.

Direct: You say the hard thing, challenge ideas openly, and commit fully once decided.

High agency: You thrive on trust rather than instruction. When you see something is broken, you fix it. You don’t file tickets and wait for someone else.

Bar of excellence: You hold yourself to a bar most people wouldn't, and you want teammates who do the same.

Skeptical: You push back on rules that don’t make sense and question assumptions that haven’t earned their place.

Compensation Range: $260K - $300K