Senior Backend Engineer
Skills
Computer ScienceAmazon Web ServicesAnalyticsBusiness InsightsDatabasesHealthcareLarge Language Models
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering Math or equivalent
- 5+ years of backend development experience building scalable distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python Node.js or Java
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and microservices architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure
- Strong experience in system design backend services data processing and analytics
- Solid understanding of backend observability including monitoring logging alerting and autoscaling
- Hands-on experience with relational databases
- History of delivery on high impact organizational projects
- Minimum of 2 years in a startup environment
- Strong debugging problem-solving and communication skills
- Passion for product development and willingness to take initiative and ownership
- Commitment to software development best practices and standards
- Wants to help build an engineering team from the ground up
Nice to have
- Startup-minded
- Ownership-driven
- Collaborative
- Product-focused
- Detail-oriented
Day to day
- Develop scalable backend services and processing pipelines for large healthcare datasets.
- Integrate and optimize AI components and Large Language Models to deliver intelligent insights.
- Collaborate closely with frontend data and AI teams to ship seamless data-rich features from design through deployment and maintenance.