Senior Backend Engineer
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with 5 years of experience to join our team and build production Agentic systems at scale. You will be a strong individual contributor with a co-founder mindset helping us push the frontier of whats possible with Agentic workflows in Healthcare. We need someone who can take powerful platform capabilities design multi-step workflows and ship them to production to directly impact patient outcomes on our AI-powered care orchestration platform. Roughly 60-70% of your time is deployment-focused; the remainder is platform contribution: building reusable workflow primitives improving shared infrastructure based on patterns you see across customers and shaping how we architect agentic systems at scale.
Experience & Tenure: 5 years of hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems preferred with some recent experience in AI-powered services and automation workflows in high-availability environments.
Core Backend Expertise: Proven experience designing and operating complex backend systems including a deep understanding of concurrency scalability reliability and distributed systems patterns.
Technical Stack: Strong experience building and maintaining large-scale Python codebases and hands-on experience with async or event-driven architectures.
Production AI Focus: Experience building and shipping AI-powered systems beyond prototypes or internal demos.
Seen good engineering at scale (big company well-funded startup) and optionally worn multiple hats in a fast-paced startup environment
Computer Science degree from a top-tier or Top 30 university.
Expert-level proficiency in Python at scale
Infrastructure ownership: builds deploys monitors and iterates on end-to-end systems (on call rotation is part of the role)
Agentic development fluency - orchestrating sub-agents when to use off-the-shelf vs. frontier models
Co-founder mindset - ships fast understands trade-offs drives business outcomes
- Looking for candidates with both big tech and startup experience emphasizing adaptability and technical excellence.
- Co-founder mindset is essential; candidates should be able to handle varied tasks and drive business outcomes.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with high-scale systems is mandatory.
- Preferred background includes successful startup experience or impactful roles in major tech companies.
Required Skills:
Python Agentic AI LLM AWS GCP
Required Education:
BS in engineering (EE preferred any engineering accepted