Founding Backend Engineer, AI Governance Platform

Alignmt AI Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning and development allowance

Medical and dental insurance coverage

Competitive compensation

Fertility/adoption/parental planning $

Job summary

ALIGNMT AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for Platforms to own aspects of the data platform and infrastructure implementation, and drive the integration experience for customers and partners. You will need deep platform engineering expertise, federated evaluation, and enterprise data governance focus.

The role emphasizes building scalable systems, leading cross-functional improvements, and mentoring engineering teams to advance AI privacy and governance.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field.
• 4+ years of experience of extensive experience in software engineering with a proven track record of shipping successful projects.
• Mastery of backend languages or databases such as Golang, PostgreSQL.
• Mastery of testing strategies and frameworks for backend testing.
• Extensive experience building and maintaining large scale distributed systems.
• Excellent coding, testing and system design skills.
• Deep knowledge of privacy-preserving federated evaluation, micro service architectures, and enterprise security standards (ISO 27001, SOC-2, HITRUST).
• Experience in data warehouse such as BigQuery, Redshift.
• Experience in developing and deploying containerized and serverless applications on GCP or AWS.
• Experience in CI/CD systems and processes.
• Experience building integrations with electronic health record systems such as Epic and Cerner.
• A solid understanding of the healthcare industry, including familiarity with current trends and challenges in health tech.

Responsibilities

• Build highly scalable and robust systems to abstract away privacy, legal and risk mitigation complexity from product owners.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of federated evaluation features.
• Helping position ALIGNMT A\ as an industry leader in AI Privacy, Risk Mitigation and Data Governance best practices.
• Mentor engineers and working closely with the EM to nurture team health.

Skills

Golang

PostgreSQL

Backend testing

Distributed systems

System design

Coding

Education

Bachelors in CS/Engineering

Tools

BigQuery

Redshift

GCP

AWS

CI/CD

Epic

Cerner

Job description

ALIGNMT AI is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for Platforms to own aspects of the data platform and infrastructure implementation, and drive the integration experience for customers and partners. You will need deep platform engineering expertise, federated evaluation, and enterprise data governance focus.

The role emphasizes building scalable systems, leading cross-functional improvements, and mentoring engineering teams to advance AI privacy and governance.