Senior Backend Software Engineer (Node.js, USA-based)
full-time•$150k - $170k
Summary
About this role
About Collectly
Collectly is a fast-growing healthcare technology startup working to modernize the U.S. healthcare financial experience through AI-driven automation. Every day, millions of patients and providers navigate a system weighed down by inefficiencies, administrative burden, and confusing billing processes. The result is more work for provider offices and more confusion and frustration for patients.
Collectly applies artificial intelligence to revenue cycle management (RCM) to automate workflows, streamline billing, and create clearer, more humane financial experiences for patients. Our work focuses on real, high-impact problems: accelerating cash flow for providers, reducing operational overhead, and improving patient interactions during critical non-clinical moments.
By simplifying billing and payment experiences, we help healthcare organizations focus on what matters most: delivering care.
We’re a hybrid team, with roots in Santa Monica and teammates distributed across the U.S. and Europe.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of the talented team building new AI products at Collectly, powered by Node.js backend and React front end.
We are a hybrid company, based in Santa Monica and San Francisco, USA. With some remote across the United States & Europe.
\n- Collaborate with the founders, PMs, designers, and other engineers to navigate trade-offs and build world-class products.
- Work with urgency to build critical features with a keen attention to detail and high-quality maintainable code.
- Completely own your features end-to-end, from product requirements, code, testing, observability, rollout and maintenance.
- 5+ years experience building complex web apps(focused on backend).
- Experience with LLM Prompt Engineering.
- Strong proficiency in Typescript, Node.js, SQL databases and modern backend architectures.
- Experience (or strong interest) in AI/LLMs in prompt engineering.
- AWS or GCP Cloud Infrastructure Experience.
- Experience building rapid prototypes 0->1, and convert to robust maintainable code
- Experience with orchestration tools. ie. Hatchet, temporal.
- AI/LLM Integrations.
- Puppeteer, stagehand, selenium experience.
- 3+ years of experience with Python.
- React (5% of work). This position is mostly backend, but will require understanding frontend code.
- Start with a 1–2 week onboarding onsite in Los Angeles/Santa Monica with our CTO — travel and accommodations fully covered.
- After onboarding, you’ll work remotely with the freedom and flexibility that comes with it.
- Join a collaborative and supportive team that values high-quality code, continuous improvement, and having fun while doing meaningful work.
Note: At this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
- Unlimited PTO: We believe in work-life balance and encourage you to recharge when you need it.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents, because your well-being matters to us.
- Equity Opportunities: Share in our success with stock options - your hard work will drive our growth.
- Retirement Planning Made Easy: Enjoy a 401(k) with a generous company match to secure your future.
- Student Loan Support: We help lighten the load with contributions toward your student loans.
- Base Compensation Range: $150,000 - $170,000 per year
What you'll do
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will collaborate with various teams to build new AI products and completely own your features from requirements to maintenance. You will focus on building critical features with high-quality maintainable code.
About Collectly
Collectly is an AI-powered technology company transforming how healthcare organizations manage the patient financial experience—from digital intake and pre-visit financial engagement to final payment.
Our platform automates every step of the revenue cycle to help providers:
1️⃣ Accelerate and increase cash flow
2️⃣ Increase patient satisfaction
3️⃣ Reduce administrative burden
4️⃣ Slash the cost to collect
We serve a wide range of specialties and org types—from ambulatory groups and acute care systems to RCM companies and behavioral health providers—helping them modernize patient billing and boost financial performance at scale.
Collectly also includes Billie—your new AI-powered billing support rep that never sleeps. Billie responds instantly across chat, email, SMS, and voice—reducing support volume by up to 85%, resolving questions faster, and helping patients understand what they owe, why, and how to pay.
It’s not just about which channels you use—it’s how you use them. Collectly intelligently delivers the right message at the right time, in the right format, tailored to each patient’s context. With seamless EHR/PM integration, workflows stay connected and efficient.
With Collectly, providers can:
• Automate follow-ups and accelerate payments
• Enable 2-click, no-login digital payments
• Offer self-serve payment plans and family billing
• Eliminate paper with mobile-first statements and digital intake
• Capture accurate data with upfront insurance verification
• Gain real-time visibility into revenue performance
Trusted by 3,000+ healthcare organizations, Collectly helps providers improve collections and deliver a better financial experience for every patient.
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