STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

About RapidClaims

RapidClaims is a leader in AI-driven revenue cycle management, transforming medical

coding and revenue operations with cutting-edge technology.

The company has raised $11 million in total funding from top investors, including Accel

and Together Fund.

Join us as we scale a cloud-native platform that runs transformer-based Large Language

Models rigorously fine-tuned on millions of clinical notes and claims every month. You’ll

engineer autonomous coding pipelines that parse ICD-10-CM, CPT® and HCPCS at

lightning speed, deliver reimbursement insights with sub-second latency and >99 %

accuracy, and tackle the deep-domain challenges that make clinical AI one of the

hardest—and most rewarding—problems in tech.

Engineering Manager- Job Overview

We are looking for an Engineering Manager who can lead a team of engineers while

staying deeply involved in technical decisions. This role requires a strong mix of people

leadership, system design expertise, and execution focus to deliver high-quality product

features at speed. You will work closely with Product and Leadership to translate

requirements into scalable technical solutions and build a high-performance engineering

culture.

Key Responsibilities:

● Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers

● Drive end-to-end ownership of product features from design to deployment

● Work closely with Product to translate requirements into technical solutions

● Define architecture and ensure scalability, reliability, and performance

● Establish engineering best practices, code quality, and review standards

● Improve development velocity, sprint planning, and execution discipline

● Hire strong engineering talent and build a solid team

● Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and problem-solving

● Ensure timely releases without compromising quality

● Stay hands-on with critical technical decisions and reviews

.

Requirements:

● 5+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in team leadership

● Strong experience in building and scaling backend systems and APIs

● Experience working in a product/startup environment

● Good understanding of system design, architecture, and databases

● Ability to manage engineers while remaining technically credible

● Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

● Experience working closely with Product teams

● High ownership mindset and bias for action

Good to Have

● Experience in healthcare tech / automation / RPA / AI tools

● Experience building internal tools and workflow systems

● Exposure to cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Mandate Skills:

• 3 - 7 years of experience in cloud-native applications (Azure strongly preferred) using Python.
• Thorough understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) design and practices.
• Strong RDBMS experience (PostgreSQL, MS SQL etc.) designing tables & writing queries.
• Great command of design patterns (especially integration design patterns)

As per 5 yrs below is the tech stack that he should know around django:

·         Django forms

·         Django Rest APIs

·         Schedulers/Cron Jobs

·         Customising middlewares

·         Customising permission classes

·         Management commands

·         Fixtures

·         Multiple Environment handling

·         Multiple database integration

·         SQL and NoSQL database integration experience

·         Use of loggers or any logging mechanism

·         Signals

·         Push notifications over IOS/Android devices

·         Email notifications

·         Websockets

·         Unit testing

·         Caching

·         Payment gateway integration

AWS & Deployment Skills:

·         Deployment of Django over EC2 using Nginx or Apache2

·         Configuring the Django to run the services like websockets, celery

·         Using and configuring the RDS

·         Should know how to use S3 buckets

aws-lambda

• Owns team's output and E2E definition and execution of SDLC. Drives sprint planning, estimates & prioritizes tasks, Keeps key stakeholders updated on progress, milestones, and any potential slippages.
• Identifies pitfalls across codebases proactively. Writes model code that is looked up to. Understands internals of programming languages & runtimes. Creates common reusable components/libraries- Uses advanced data structures.
• Designs API contracts between large systems with end-to-end service design and active leadership towards long-term sustainability including versioning, complex migration plans, impact analysis across products.
• Owns NFRs and pushes the envelope on performance, scalability, and high availability with cognizance towards the cost of infra. Drives tech stack selection independently, mentors junior engineers. Evangelises of generic platform building across the organization.
• Troubleshoots unseen issues across codebases. Solves large end-to-end cross-cutting problems with elegant solutions with an eye on long-term sustainability.
• Partners with and influences product managers on “how”. Leads the pack on hiring and evangelizes steeper hiring standards towards building an A+ team. Represents company on external platforms/conferences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar discipline
• 7+ years relevant work experience in software engineering while leading teams.
• Proficiency in more than one modern programming language such as Python (preferred) associated tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code
• Experience in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered
• Should be strong with System Design and Database designing
• Deep understanding of design patterns, optimizations, deployments with Strong object-oriented design skills
• Experience mentoring other software engineers.
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language