Senior Backend Engineer — HealthTech, AI & Cloud (JVM)

Carbon Health; Çankaya; On-site; TRY 5,897,000 - 8,845,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary in USD

Permanent payroll

Office at Ankara

Private health insurance

Family health insurance

Floating vacation days

Healthcare technology projects

Ownership culture

Job summary

Carbon Health in Ankara is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and own JVM backend services in production, building reliable APIs and event-driven workflows that support clinical workstreams. You will work with Java/Kotlin/Scala, gRPC, REST/GraphQL, and Terraform/AWS, focusing on observability, data integrity, and delivering features on schedule in a healthcare tech environment.

This is a hands-on role with opportunities to mentor peers and apply AI to improve development workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Proficiency with JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, or Scala).
• Experience with gRPC and API design (REST/GraphQL).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own JVM backend services (Java, Kotlin, or Scala) from design through production.
• Implement robust service-to-service communication with gRPC (timeouts, retries, idempotence).
• Design public/internal APIs (REST, GraphQL).
• Build event-driven workflows with reliability patterns (Saga, Outbox).
• Own infrastructure with Terraform; contribute to CI/CD pipelines.
• Make services observable with metrics, tracing, and alerting for SLOs.
• Model data in relational databases with performance in mind.
• Handle healthcare data with appropriate security measures (encryption, access control).
• Write maintainable, tested code; mentor peers and lead design reviews.
• Leverage AI to improve development workflows and tooling.
• Collaborate with product/design/engineering to deliver features on time.

Skills

JVM languages

gRPC

API design

Event-driven

Relational DB

Terraform

AWS

Observability

English

AI in development

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GraphQL

Job description

Carbon Health in Ankara is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and own JVM backend services in production, building reliable APIs and event-driven workflows that support clinical workstreams. You will work with Java/Kotlin/Scala, gRPC, REST/GraphQL, and Terraform/AWS, focusing on observability, data integrity, and delivering features on schedule in a healthcare tech environment.

This is a hands-on role with opportunities to mentor peers and apply AI to improve development workflows.