Senior Backend Engineer

Jobtailor; Ireland; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our Dublin-based team and help shape healthcare AI products. You will design, build, and evolve robust Python backends, architect scalable cloud infrastructure, and optimize data storage and APIs for performance and security.

You will own data modeling, patterns, testing, and real-time data processing with message queues, collaborating with frontend and AI squads to deliver robust APIs and reliable services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management.
• Experience building & managing message queue systems at scale.
• Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance.
• Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Implement and optimize data storage solutions.
• Collaborate with frontend and AI teams to integrate new features and enhance existing APIs.
• Optimize API performance and handle API versioning, documentation, and testing.
• Autonomously deliver beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability.
• Develop and manage message queue systems for real-time data processing.

Skills

Python

MongoDB

Redis

API design

data modeling

design patterns

message queue systems

data storage solutions

CI/CD

cloud infrastructure

Job description

Responsibilities

• Ultimately you will have the opportunity to work with the engineering mastermind behind Heidi developing AI products which will change the face of healthcare
• Autonomously deliver beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability.
• Implement and optimize data storage solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python.
• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Develop and manage message queue systems for real-time data processing.
• Collaborate with frontend and AI teams to integrate new features and enhance existing APIs.
• Optimize API performance and handle API versioning, documentation, and testing.

Requirements

• Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills.
• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management.
• Experience building & managing message queue systems at scale.
• Writing testable, effective and communicative code
• Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs
• Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance.
• Data & application security knowledge and skills
• Experience in integrating with third-party systems
• Competent with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies.
• Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systems

Hard Skills

• Python
• MongoDB
• Redis
• API design
• data modeling
• design patterns
• message queue systems
• data storage solutions
• CI/CD
• cloud infrastructure

Soft Skills

• problem-solving
• ownership
• collaboration
• communication