Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Ultimately you will have the opportunity to work with the engineering mastermind behind Heidi developing AI products which will change the face of healthcare
• Autonomously deliver beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability.
• Implement and optimize data storage solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Develop and manage message queue systems for real-time data processing.
• Collaborate with frontend and AI teams to integrate new features and enhance existing APIs.
• Optimize API performance and handle API versioning, documentation, and testing.

Requirements

• Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills.
• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management.
• Experience building & managing message queue systems at scale.
• Writing testable, effective and communicative code
• Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs
• Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance.
• Data & application security knowledge and skills
• Experience in integrating with third-party systems
• Competent with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies.
• Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systems

Hard Skills

• Python
• MongoDB
• Redis
• API design
• data modeling
• design patterns
• message queue systems
• data storage solutions
• CI/CD
• cloud infrastructure

Soft Skills

• problem-solving
• ownership
• collaboration
• communication