Backend Engineer

Clinical ink; Søborg; On-site; DKK 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Clinical Ink is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Disease Management team in Denmark and the United States. You will build backend features in our Python stack, create robust tests, and ensure quality controls in a regulated environment.

You will learn to leverage AI coding agents while maintaining strong security and privacy standards. Collaborating across offices, you’ll contribute to data integrations with wearables and clinical data sources, instrument observability, and ensure

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in programming with eagerness to learn.
• Experience with APIs, databases, and version control; comfortable with testing.
• Driven to build and ship, curious learner.
• Open to AI-augmented development with verification mindset.
• Exposure to healthcare data or regulated software preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement backend features in the Python stack across services.
• Write meaningful tests and ensure quality controls pass.
• Integrate wearables and clinical data sources under guidance.
• Instrument code with metrics and logs; learn production tooling.
• Respect PHI handling and least-privilege in development.
• Use AI coding agents effectively and verify outputs.
• Communicate clearly in code, PRs, and updates.

Skills

Python fundamentals

APIs & SQL

Version control

Testing & design

AI-assisted development

FastAPI / SQLAlchemy

AWS experience

Healthcare data (FHIR)

Regulated software

Tools

CloudWatch

Sentry

PostgreSQL

SQLAlchemy

Git

FastAPI

Job description

Company Information

Clinical Ink is the global life science company that brings data, technology, and patient science together to unlock clinical discovery. Our deep therapeutic-area expertise, coupled with Direct Data Capture, eCOA, eConsent, telehealth, neurocognitive testing, and digital biomarkers advancement, drive the industry standard for data precision and usher in a new generation of clinical trials. With offices in the United States and Denmark, Clinical Ink is rewriting the clinical development experience.

Job Description

Clinical Ink is seeking a Backend Engineer to join Clinical Ink's Disease Management team based in Denmark and the United States. In this role, you build well-scoped backend features across our Python services, with the tests and quality controls that prove they work. You’ll learn what it means to build in a regulated, safety-critical environment, lean on AI coding agents to move fast, and grow toward owning a domain of your own. The Backend Engineer's responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Implement backend features in our Python stack: API endpoints, data models and migrations, and the glue between services.
• Write meaningful tests and make it (or its equivalent) pass — correctness is proven by the controls, not by hoping
• Contribute to integrations with wearables and clinical data sources under guidance
• Instrument what you build — add the metrics and logs that make your code observable — and learn our tooling (CloudWatch, Sentry) and how the platform runs in production
• Learn and respect the safety/privacy context — PHI handling, least privilege — as part of normal development
• Use AI coding agents effectively, and build the habit of verifying what they generate
• Communicate clearly in code, PRs, and updates

Qualifications

• Solid programming fundamentals and some backend experience (Python a plus; we care more about strong fundamentals and learning speed)
• Comfort with APIs, databases/SQL, and version control; eagerness to learn good testing and design
• A real drive to build and ship, and curiosity to keep learning
• Openness to AI-augmented development with a healthy, verify-it mindset
• Exposure to FastAPI / SQLAlchemy / Postgres, AWS, or healthcare data (FHIR, wearables) preferred
• Any experience in regulated, safety-critical, or high-reliability software preferred

Additional Information

Clinical Ink is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against otherwise qualified applicants on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability or handicap, or veteran status.

www.clinicalink.com