Senior EngineerAs a Senior Engineer at Magical, you'll build and own the systems powering our AI agents. You'll set technical direction for projects, drive delivery, enhance your team's effectiveness, and take end-to-end ownership of core systems.Our platform orchestrates long-running, high-stakes healthcare workflows—managing queues, run state, browser automation, model calls, evaluations, observability, and human-in-the-loop recovery.You'll help transform unstructured customer inputs—SOPs, decision trees, portal behaviors, and edge cases—into dependable automations. You'll build systems that can draft, test, and enhance workflows, catch failures, recommend edits, and know when human intervention is needed.
You'll also contribute to improving runtime reliability, workflow pathways, evaluations, and specialized agents for critical healthcare tasks.This is a hybrid role based in our San Francisco office.What You'll DoDesign and build backend and full-stack systems for AI agents and healthcare automationsSet technical direction within a project or product area, especially when requirements are ambiguousBuild features for automation creation, workflow pathways, testing, editing, and production run reportingImprove runtime reliability through systems for run state management, queues, idempotency, error classification, alerts, and dashboardsOwn critical services from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and iterationYou May Be a Fit IfYou have 5+ years of software development experience.You've built and owned backend systems deployed in productionYou can turn ambiguous product requirements into a clear technical planYou have strong systems design skills—distributed systems, databases, APIs, queues, async workflows, and observabilityYou've integrated AI tools into your development workflow and are willing to experiment with new approachesYou have a strong bias for action—you ship, learn, prioritize ruthlessly, and iterate quicklyYou take full ownership of your systems and enjoy mentoring teammatesEven Better IfYou have experience building platform, infrastructure, or workflow systems at scaleYou have built agentic products or agent-based workflowsYou've integrated LLMs or AI models into production backend systemsYou have a background in event-driven architectures, workflow engines, observability, or runtime reliabilityYou have experience in healthcare operations or revenue cycle managementWe're building the best self-serve agentic automation platform for healthcare, and we're just getting started. Come join us!