Why Telepatia
Telepatia builds real-time AI products for healthcare — medical transcription, clinical record generation, and EMR integrations across Brazil and Colombia. Our integrations layer is the nervous system connecting hospitals, clinics, and EHR systems to our platform.
We need someone who can design, build, and own complex integration systems where reliability directly impacts clinical workflows. This person won't just execute tasks — they'll shape how the team thinks and builds. Reliability here has real-world consequences for clinical teams.
What You'll Do
Map, don't pack — Look at complex, undocumented systems and build a clear mental model from first principles, not just from specs handed to you
Move with high agency — Don't wait to be unblocked. Hit a wall? Find a way around it, document the decision, and keep the team informed
Own production — Write runbooks, follow up on incidents, ship and stand behind your work
Mentor actively — Raise the floor of the team through meaningful code reviews and explaining the why, not just the what
Engage with open source — Read source code to debug issues, contribute patches, and build thoughtfully on top of OSS
What You HaveExperience 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience
Must-have skills Node.js · TypeScript · Python · REST API design · GraphQL API design · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Strong backend fundamentals (queues, async patterns, error handling, observability)
Good to have Kubernetes · GCP · Redis / BullMQ · Docker · ArgoCD
Nice to have Pulumi / IaC · Linkerd / service mesh · Kafka / Pub-Sub · Firestore
Fullstack signal Can read and reason about React/Next.js code; designs APIs with the consumer's DX in mind, not just correctness
How you work Comfortable with ambiguity · Direct communicator · Intellectually curious about the Node.js and Python ecosystems · Ego-free on code — pushes back through good arguments, not attachment
Skills Required
- 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Python
- REST API design
- GraphQL API design
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Queues (message queue systems)
- Async patterns
- Error handling (robust production error management)
- Observability (monitoring, logging, tracing)
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- Redis / BullMQ
- Docker
- ArgoCD
- Pulumi / Infrastructure as Code
- Linkerd / service mesh
- Kafka / Pub-Sub
- Firestore
- Ability to read and reason about React/Next.js code
- Design APIs with good consumer DX
- Experience contributing to or debugging open-source projects
- Mentoring and providing meaningful code reviews
- Comfortable with ambiguity and direct communication
What We Do
Telepatia is a healthtech company building AI-powered clinical intelligence for healthcare systems in Latin America and beyond. Its platform works within clinical workflows to transcribe consultations in real time, generate structured medical records, provide evidence-based decision support, and integrate with existing health systems. Built by doctors and born at Stanford, Telepatia aims to reduce clinicians’ cognitive load, improve patient experiences, and strengthen adherence to care protocols.
