Description review

Anterior (Sequoia-backed, Series B) | Senior Member of Technical Staff | On-Site (New York, NY) | Full Time | $230,000–$300,000 + equity

Anterior (Sequoia-backed, Series B) · On-Site (New York, NY) · back to the listing

HR standards

61/100

needs work

Title ↔ description

71/100

solid

Reads as

Backend Engineer

98% confident

What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

Company: Anterior builds AI for healthcare administration. Health plans review clinical evidence against medical policy before care gets approved, often relying on nurses reading PDFs. Our platform reads policies and clinical records, producing decisions clinicians can audit. We're ~45 people in New York and recently raised $40M, bringing us to $64M total, from Sequoia, NEA, Neo, FPV, Kinnevik, and founders of DeepMind, Google AI, and Inflection.
Role: Members of Technical Staff handle everything from system design to production: designing backend services, scaling AWS, debugging, scoping integrations, or evaluating LLM-powered systems. You'll set technical direction and mentor engineers.
You: + Strong backend and/or infrastructure experience, and operated at scale + Care about foundations like consistency guarantees and code simplicity + Known for solving tough problems and making lasting architectural calls + Looking to write enduring code + Background in scale-ups, big tech, finance, or AWS-heavy teams
Tech: Python, Go, TypeScript, React, Nix, AWS (migrating from CDKTF — bonus if you've done this).
See our team in action:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mav15aW9lLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAsb7MIAzm8
Bring your GitHub and proudest firefighting story:
https://電.anterior.app/ — mention what resonates.
Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/anterior/1163af7a-d1d6-41db-a8ea-fc49fd97c6b0?utm_source=HN

How this was produced

Highlights are found by rule, not by a model: each one is a phrase matched at a known position, and every note is a template we wrote. The two scores come from a typed-decision model (Jev) that reads the listing against the official role definition and real listings for the same role, and returns probabilities rather than prose — it never writes any of the words on this page, and never chooses what to highlight.

Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 77 before penalties). Reviewed 21 Sep 2026.