Founding Backend Engineer - Remote AI for Health

Soulside, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity opportunity

Healthcare coverage

Job summary

Soulside, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our core team as we build a scalable platform for mental health care.

You will shape architecture, implement backend services with Spring Boot, and work on distributed systems handling sensitive healthcare data in real-time. As an early hire, you'll influence product direction, own features end-to-end, collaborate with founders and clinical teams, and help ensure HIPAA-compliant security and robust observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in Spring Boot and Java ecosystem.
• Proficiency with Prometheus and Grafana for observability.
• Strong AWS experience including EC2, ECS/EKS and auto-scaling.
• Proven expertise in architecting scalable distributed systems with queues and streaming.
• Experience with data reliability patterns (redundancy, retries, circuit breakers).
• Hands-on with LLM technology including prompts and monitoring.
• Security engineering background with Spring Security and RBAC, HIPAA compliance.
• Experience translating complex workflows into backend logic.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced startup.

Responsibilities

• Architect and develop core backend services using Spring Boot.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability with Prometheus/Grafana.
• Configure AWS auto-scaling for reliability and cost optimization.
• Build distributed systems with SQS, Kafka, and Kinesis for high-volume workloads.
• Ensure data reliability with redundancy and failure handling.
• Design LLM integration pipelines with prompt engineering and monitoring.
• Apply Spring Security RBAC to ensure HIPAA-compliant security.
• Model and optimize clinical and operational workflows in backend.
• Make foundational technical decisions scaling from startup.
• Collaborate with founders and clinical teams to translate needs into solutions.
• Own major product features end-to-end from architecture to deployment.

Skills

Distributed systems

Spring Boot

Java ecosystem

Observability

AWS & auto-scaling

Message queues & streaming

Data reliability patterns

LLM integration

Security engineering

Microservices

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

SQS

Kafka

Kinesis

Spring Security

Terraform

Job description

Soulside, Inc. is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our core team as we build a scalable platform for mental health care.

You will shape architecture, implement backend services with Spring Boot, and work on distributed systems handling sensitive healthcare data in real-time. As an early hire, you'll influence product direction, own features end-to-end, collaborate with founders and clinical teams, and help ensure HIPAA-compliant security and robust observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and