Backend Engineer

Clinical ink; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Clinical Ink is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Disease Management team, working on Python services across the US and Denmark. You will build well-scoped backend features, ensure quality through tests, and operate in a regulated, safety-critical environment with strong observability and AI-assisted development.

Expect to handle API endpoints, data models, and integrations with wearables and clinical data sources, while growing your expertise in the platform and its production operations.

Qualifications

• Solid programming fundamentals and backend experience with Python preferred.
• Comfort with APIs, databases/SQL, and version control; eager to learn testing and design.
• Desire to build, ship, and continuously learn.
• Open to AI-augmented development with verification mindset.
• Exposure to FastAPI/SQLAlchemy/Postgres, AWS, or healthcare data preferred.
• Experience in regulated, safety-critical software preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement backend features in our Python stack: API endpoints, data models and migrations, and the glue between services.
• Write meaningful tests and make them 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.

Skills

Python

APIs & SQL

Testing & QA

AI-assisted development

AWS

Tools

FastAPI

SQLAlchemy

PostgreSQL

AWS CloudWatch

Sentry

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.

Responsibilities

• Implement backend features in our Python stack: API endpoints, data models and migrations, and the glue between services.
• Write meaningful tests and make them 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.

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.