Software Engineer(Backend)

Teton.ai ApS; København; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Teton.ai ApS is seeking a strong backend engineer to scale the core infrastructure powering our healthcare platform. You will work on ingesting and processing real-time data from thousands of edge devices across care facilities, powering critical alerts and workflows used by healthcare staff around the clock.

Join a small, highly autonomous team in Copenhagen, collaborating closely with colleagues to deliver robust, scalable backend systems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and operating backend or distributed systems.
• Experience designing reliable real-time data pipelines.
• Familiar with event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems.
• Ability to scale APIs and services handling high-throughput workloads.
• Experience operating production infrastructure with reliability requirements.
• Knowledge of database design and performance optimization.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling.
• Strong debugging skills under pressure in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale backend or distributed systems.
• Design reliable real-time data pipelines that ingest data from edge devices.
• Work with event-driven architectures and asynchronous components.
• Scale APIs and services to support high-throughput workloads.
• Maintain production infrastructure with high reliability standards.
• Optimize database design, storage performance and queries.
• Manage cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling.
• Ensure reliability, observability and performance across the platform.
• Maintain MQTT infrastructure and edge communications.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed pipelines

Real-time processing

Event-driven design

APIs & services

Reliability observability

Cloud infra

MQTT edge

Performance tuning

Production debugging

Job description

About Us

Teton is redefining the role of healthcare workers through cutting-edge AI technology and a great product experience. As populations gets older and a shortage in staff, healthcare system is under pressure. Our missions is to decrease the cost of healthcare while improving the quality of care.

Our product enables careteams to intervene, prevent and operator more efficiently. Our ambient sensors in resident rooms captures activity, sleep, respiration, gait and more. These signal used for both react fast to risk events, like falls, and long term health analysis, for care teams to take actions.

Teton is scaling fast, operating in Nordics, UK, DACH and US. Recently raised 20M $$ series A. Expect travel to the US, to meet users and team members.

We focus relentless on product excellence and user experience, deploying solutions at speed that make a tangible difference for cares. We are an aspiring meritocracy biased towards action, striving to always raise the bar. If you are driven by impact, speed and leveling up, this might be the place for you.

The position requires a physical presence at our office in Copenhagen, Denmark. If you are looking for a 9-17 job, perform best with structure and struggle dealing with unknowns, this is not for you. We believe close collaboration between a hard working, high agency team enables the fastest and most efficient iteration cycles, helping us build an impactful product that healthcare professionals truly love to use.

The Job

We are looking for a strong backend engineer to help scale the core infrastructure powering Teton’s platform.

Our systems ingest and process continuous streams of real-time data from thousands of deployed edge devices across care facilities. These systems power critical alerts and operational workflows used by healthcare staff around the clock.

You will work across:

• Distributed data ingestion systems
• Real-time event pipelines
• APIs and backend services
• Databases and storage systems
• MQTT infrastructure and edge communication
• Reliability, observability, and system performance
• Cloud infrastructure and deployment architecture

Qualifications

We care more about engineering ability and ownership than specific credentials, but strong candidates will likely have experience with several of the following:

• Building and operating large-scale backend or distributed systems
• Designing reliable real-time data pipelines
• Working with event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems
• Scaling APIs and services handling high-throughput workloads
• Operating production infrastructure with strong reliability requirements
• Database design and performance optimization
• Cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling
• Debugging complex production issues under pressure

What We Offer

• Participation in our warrant program (stock options).
• A small team where your decisions directly shape the product.
• A Copenhagen-based office with close collaboration, no async-only culture.
• Work on software that healthcare workers depend on every day, the impact is tangible and immediate.

Join Our Team

We're looking for individuals who share our vision and value ownership and entrepreneurship over a conventional job.

At Teton, you'll have the chance to make a real impact with your work.

If you're ready for more than just a job, come aboard and be part of our mission to transform healthcare.

Location

Copenhagen