Senior Staff Backend Engineer
Senior Staff Backend Engineer
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$ 180000 - 280000
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About Aegis Ventures
Aegis Ventures partners with entrepreneurs and industry leaders to launch and scale transformative companies in digital health and artificial intelligence. Our platform brings together marketshaping ideas growth capital and ambitious individuals to solve major societal problems. With a focus on innovations in healthcare Aegis has launched four successful portfolio companies in partnership with Northwell Health and recently announced the Digital Consortium to codevelop invest in and launch new companies.
About Ascertain
Ascertain is a healthcare AI startup based in NYC founded with the backing and expertise of New Yorks largest healthcare system Northwell and supported by leading clinical experts from Harvard and Stanford along with seasoned technologists from Amazon and Google. Were on a mission to eliminate the manual tedious administrative tasks that drain healthcare providers time enabling them to fully focus on delivering highquality patient care.
Our AIdriven platform automates notoriously inefficient processessuch as prior authorizations discharge planning claims processing and pharmacy operations. Leveraging recent breakthroughs in large language models LLMs and advanced automation technologies we help healthcare enterprises streamline these previously manual and tedious workflows. By eliminating unnecessary burdens Ascertain empowers clinical teams to focus their expertise where it matters most: patients.
Our team works from our NYC office on a flexible hybrid basiswe value autonomy and trust our team members to manage their schedules effectively.
About the Job
As a BackEnd Software Engineer at Ascertain you will build scalable robust infrastructure and backend services that power Ascertains healthcare AI platform. Youll take the lead in defining best practices around our infrastructure security CI/CD pipelines and cloud hosting strategy. As one of our earliest engineering hires youll have significant ownership in shaping both technical architecture and our engineering culture.
Youll work closely with product and engineering teams to ensure our platform remains secure performant reliable and scalable. While your primary focus is backend and infrastructure our team is smallengineers are empowered to work across the stack when needed to fully own a feature.
What Youll Do:
- Design and develop scalable backend services using Python and FastAPI.
- Support infrastructure management using Kubernetes Docker and Terraform.
- Work closely with product managers designers and other engineers to define technical requirements and translate them into robust software solutions.
- Participate in code reviews providing constructive feedback and ensuring highquality code standards.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to fostering a collaborative engineering culture.
- Contribute to improving software development processes and best practices.
What Youll Need:
- 5 years of experience in backend development using Python and FastAPI.
- Strong backend expertise especially Pythonbased APIs (ideally FastAPI) relational databases and caching systems.
- Proficiency in modern DevOps and infrastructure tools (Docker Kubernetes Terraform) and have experience defining cloud architecture and CI/CD processes.
What Youll Bring to the Table:
- You have a securityminded approach to infrastructure design with experience handling secure regulated or sensitive environments.
- Experience in ambiguous startup environments proactively take ownership and communicate clearly across teams.
- Excitement (not just willingness! to dive into new technologies learn quickly and step beyond your comfort zone in a rapidly evolving environment.
Benefits & Perks:
- Cuttingedge technology: Work directly with the latest advancements in generative AI and automation tackling challenging problems that meaningfully impact healthcare.
- Ownership & growth: Youll join Ascertain at a pivotal early stage shaping our products technical direction and culture with significant opportunities for career advancement.
- Collaborative team: Join a talented passionate and supportive team with backgrounds from top tech companies and clinical institutions.
- Flexible hybrid work: We support a flexible hybrid working model from our NYC office trusting you to manage your own schedule.
- Competitive compensation: We offer competitive salary meaningful equity comprehensive health insurance and more.
Salary Range:
- $180000 $280000 base salary depending on previous experience and alignment with role expectations.
Why Ascertain Make a real difference: Your work will directly impact healthcare organizations and improve patient care. Join Ascertain in transforming healthcare with AI!
Aegis Ventures is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer we recruit train compensate and promote our team members based on qualifications. We encourage you to apply regardless of your race religion national origin sex gender identity sexual orientation disability age veteran status or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
