Backend Engineer - AI precision medicine company
Role summary
We are seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale services for customer-facing products in the AI precision medicine space. The role involves working across APIs, data pipelines, storage, and infrastructure to ensure reliable, secure, and high-performance systems. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, system design, and a focus on operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and on-call participation. The ideal candidate will have strong backend development skills, proficiency in Python or a comparable language, a solid understanding of distributed systems, and experience with databases, containers, and cloud services.
Backend Engineer
About The Role
We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale services that power customer-facing products. You’ll work across APIs, data pipelines, storage, and infrastructure to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance systems. This role blends hands-on coding with system design and a strong focus on operational excellence.
What You’ll Do
- Design and implement backend services and APIs (REST and/or gRPC) used in production.
- Model data and build robust storage layers across relational and NoSQL databases.
- Build messaging and streaming integrations (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) to support asynchronous workflows.
- Own service reliability: monitoring, alerting, logging, and on-call participation for critical systems.
- Improve performance and scalability through profiling, caching, and query optimization.
- Ship code through CI/CD, automate testing, and participate in code reviews and design docs.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, data, and infra engineers to deliver end-to-end features.
Tech You May Use
- Languages: Python, Go, Java, or similar
- Storage: Postgres/MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, or a document store
- Messaging/Streams: Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform
- APIs & Auth: REST/gRPC, OAuth/OIDC
- Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK
What We’re Looking For
- Strong backend development skills with proficiency in Python (or comparable language).
- Solid understanding of databases, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience building production APIs and services with strong reliability and security practices.
- Comfort with containers, cloud services, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Clear communication, ownership mindset, and ability to work collaboratively.
Nice to Have
- Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines.
- Background in high-throughput or low-latency systems.
- Data modeling for analytics or ML workloads.
- Security and compliance best practices for production services.
Why Join
- Meaningful ownership of core services with real user impact.
- Modern stack, strong engineering culture, and opportunities to influence architecture.
- Support for growth: mentoring, learning budget, and challenging problems at scale.
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