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

About the company

Knowtex is building the clinical AI infrastructure layer for intelligent care— turning the burden of manual workflows like notes, coding, order entry into a seamless background process, and providing real-time decision support so clinicians can focus on what matters: delivering superior patient care.

We are nationally deployed across the largest U.S. health system, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and we work with health systems, specialty practices, and ambulatory groups who are done waiting for EHR vendors to solve AI.