Senior Software Engineer at Proscia
Philadelphia, PA
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Aug 18, 2026
Philadelphia, PA
Aug 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Senior Software Engineer role at a Philadelphia-based digital pathology AI company, building and evolving a cloud-native platform for medical imaging and diagnostics. The work spans backend microservices and APIs, modern web frontends, and cloud infrastructure, with an explicit expectation that engineers already integrate AI-assisted development tools — including LLMs and agentic pipelines — into their daily practice. Suits a full-stack engineer comfortable with TypeScript, Node.js, Vue, and PostgreSQL in enterprise production environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 200 people in the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 150–270
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,966 (middle half $106,205–$168,771).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting treats AI-assisted development — including LLMs, agentic pipelines, prompt engineering, and AI agent evaluation — as a hard requirement, not a nice-to-have. This is unusual and is reflected accordingly in the required skills.
Vue.js is the stated preference for frontend, but the posting explicitly accepts React or Angular as equivalents; all three are captured under a single skill with alternatives.
Node.js and Deno are listed together as interchangeable runtime options; Deno is captured as an alternative.
AWS and Azure are listed as interchangeable cloud platforms; both are captured under a single skill with Azure as the alternative.
Vitest and Playwright are named in the required section as specific testing frameworks and are captured as separate required skills.
The 'Desirable Experience' section items (RabbitMQ/Kafka/SQS, Terraform/CloudFormation, observability tooling, database optimization, caching/load balancing, medical imaging familiarity, mentoring) are all marked as preferred.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
The role is based in Philadelphia; the posting does not mention a remote option.
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