engineering
Posted Aug 18, 2025Software Engineer (Backend)
at Collate
San Francisco, United StatesOn-site
Requirements
- About Collate Collate is an AI document generation platform for life sciences.
- We automate paperwork with AI, helping our customers get life-saving innovations to patients years faster.
- Our CTO Nate Smith is a former Visiting Partner at Y Combinator and founder of Lever.
- Our AI researchers, engineers, and designers have worked at Google, Nvidia, Meta, Netflix, Amazon, AirBnB, Hippocratic AI, and Grail, and 40% of our team are former founders.
- We’re an elite team, with $125M in funding from top investors (Redpoint, First Round Capital, CRV, Conviction, Y Combinator) and leaders in healthcare and AI.
- We use Go for scalable backend services, Postgres as our main database, TypeScript & React for frontend development, and Python for AI & ML services.
- Our infrastructure is hosted on AWS with Kubernetes for orchestration and Terraform + Argo CD for configuration management.
- Other key systems include S3, Kafka, OpenSearch, LLMs, and other AI models.
Additional details
- Collate is an end-to-end solution, powering every step of drug, diagnostic, and medical device development—from concept to market.
- Our CEO Surbhi Sarna is a former General Partner at Y Combinator.
- Surbhi founded nVision Medical, which developed a new method to detect ovarian cancer and was acquired by Boston Scientific.
- This is a rare chance to join an early-stage company with world-changing potential, experienced founders, and resources to execute at scale.
- About the Role We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to design and scale the systems that power Collate’s products.
- You’ll build the APIs, services, and infrastructure that form the foundation of our platform, ensuring they are performant, reliable, and secure as we grow from prototypes to large-scale deployment.
- This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex systems problems, thrives in an early-stage environment, and wants to see their work directly enable breakthroughs in life sciences.
- Modern Tech Stack Collate uses a modern tech stack, targeting a highly reliable and available platform.