Senior Member of Technical Staff- Backend

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible high-quality and sustainable healthcare for all.

The Opportunity

Be a part of the mission to #unbreakhealthcare!

epocrates is seeking a Senior Member Technical Staff as an individual contributor and youll be working on epocrates the most trusted mobile medical app in the US serving as an indispensable daily tool for 50% of the doctors in the US.

epocrates business line encompasses native iOS/Android apps and a web property a suite of in-house and third-party content publishing tools and a commercial advertising platform so epocrates R&D team tackles a variety of complex challenges every day. Our multi-disciplinary team includes front and backend engineers product management veterans medical doctors visual designers UX researchers data experts and more -- all working together to make it easier for health care providers to make excellent clinical decisions for their patients.

As an epocrates R&D team member you value collaborative environments where you can challenge ideas and learn from your colleagues. You approach your work with insatiable curiosity and have a profound discomfort with unresolved issues. You speak up and act when you see something that isnt quite right - even if it isnt in your job description or your area of expertise. And you cant wait for the Shout Outs section of our team meetings to give praise to your talented colleagues.

At athenahealth we believe that diverse teams are the strongest teams. We invite applicants of all genders races ethnicities nationalities ages religions sexual orientations disability statuses educational experiences family situations and socio-economic backgrounds.

Position Summary:

epocrates team in Bangalore manages critical subsystems powering our healthcare content ecosystem including advanced content ingestion pipelines publishing workflows AI-enhanced search capabilities and semantic network-based recommendation engines alongside our web front-end components. Were seeking an exceptional full stack engineer who can help foster a strong engineering culture while building our next-generation content platform using microservices architecture in a modern this role youll collaborate closely with product owners and UX designers to architect and implement innovative solutions that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform our search capabilities enabling more intuitive content discovery and contextual recommendations for healthcare professionals. Preferred technical experience includes React TypeScript Webpack HTML/CSS Java Spring microservices architecture and containerization technologies like Docker. Additional valuable skills include AWS Cloud infrastructure knowledge graph technologies (GraphDB or JenaDB) RDF GRAPHQL/SPARQL and experience implementing or integrating LLM-powered search and recommendation systems. Familiarity with vector databases embedding models and semantic search architectures would be particularly advantageous.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

Technical Execution

Produce accurate unambiguous technical design specifications to the appropriate detail

Deliver customer value in the form of high-quality software components and services in adherence with policies on Security performance longevity and Integration testing

Estimate the size of development tasks in story points with the goal of 80% accuracy; begin to challenge others during estimation

Understand and follow coding conventions with design and architecture best practices

Write debug and deploy code to production; deliver timely fixes

Adhere to DOD (story definition of done) as part of the sprint including unit tests functional testing code reviews no regressions bug fixes documentation and adhere to best coding practices

Contributions to the Team

Master the domain knowledge for area of assignment

Take ownership of what the team builds after the release; consider customer adoption as success criteria

Contribute to agile ceremonies to improve team performance

Volunteer for work in the backlog and commit to quality delivery; Coordinate efforts across the team to ensure completion and effectiveness of ones deliverables

Participate and contribute to scrum meetings i.e. daily stand-up sprint planning readouts and retrospectives

Drive self-organization; help determine how the team functions in collaboration with your peers

Cross functional Coordination and Communication

Work collaboratively across the Technology and Product organizations to ensure alignment towards business goals

Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization while adapting approach for different audiences

Mentorship of Others

Advise and train members of the team to maximize overall productivity and effectiveness of the team.

Education Experience & Skills Required:

4-6 years of experience in an engineering role

Experience in an Agile environment preferred

Bachelors Degree or equivalent

Exceptional software engineering fundamentals with strong computer science background

Strong command of Java ecosystem including Spring Framework Hibernate ORM and RESTful API design and implementation

Working knowledge of Unix/Linux environments and relational/NoSQL database technologies

Experience deploying and orchestrating services in AWS cloud infrastructure

Familiarity with microservices architecture patterns event-driven systems (RabbitMQ/Kafka) and containerization using Docker or Kubernetes

Experience with knowledge graph technologies including GraphDB or JenaDB RDF triple stores and query languages such as GRAPHQL and SPARQL

Exposure to AI/LLM technologies including integration of large language models into production applications vector database implementation for semantic search prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning techniques

Experience with embedding models and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures and knowledge of LLM evaluation frameworks and optimization strategies is good to have

Proficiency in modern frontend technologies including React TypeScript Webpack and responsive HTML/CSS design patterns

Experience with server-side JavaScript frameworks such as and Express