Lead Backend Architect — AI-Driven Healthcare Platform

Real Chemistry; United States; Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free snacks

Paid time off

Private medical

Dental plan

Vision plan

LinkedIn Learning

Job summary

Real Chemistry is seeking a Lead Engineer, Back End to drive the services and data model powering our omnichannel healthcare marketing platform. You will lead back-end architecture, deliver hands-on results, and grow a team of back-end and data engineers, ensuring scalable, reliable systems that connect to the broader data ecosystem.

Ideal candidates will have 8+ years in backend or full-stack roles, a proven track record in data modeling across relational and NoSQL stores, and experience hiring

Qualifications

• 8+ years in back-end or full-stack engineering, including 2+ years leading a team.
• Experience leading a data model and access patterns for a B2B or enterprise product at meaningful scale, ideally across both a relational and a NoSQL store.
• Track record hiring and growing engineers, and running a technical interview loop from scratch.
• Comfortable directing and reviewing agentic or AI-assisted coding, with the judgment to know what to hold to human review regardless of how the code was produced.
• Experience partnering with data science or ML teams to get models into production.
• Fluency defining and maintaining API contracts across a team boundary.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a fast-moving, still-small engineering org.
• Bonus points for pharma or HCP marketing experience — or any complex, regulated marketing data environment (ad tech, financial services marketing, health systems).

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform's application data model in Aurora and DynamoDB, and the access-pattern decisions behind it, as the product scales.
• Drive the integration contract with our data warehouse — what flows each way, on what cadence — and keep the warehouse out of the platform's request path.
• Define API contracts together with the front end lead, so the interface and the data model evolve as one system.
• Direct the reliability, performance, and cost of back-end services, partnering with DevOps on the platform-level non-functional requirements that take both teams' input.
• Partner with data science to productionize the models and recommendation features built on top of the platform's data.
• Hire and lead a team of back-end and data engineers, setting a high bar for code quality and CI-enforced testing.
• Support and set standards for agentic coding on your team, backed by real company investment in the tools, not just tolerance for their use.
• Partner with product and design on problem definition, scope, and sequencing from the start of each effort.

Skills

Backend architecture

Data modeling

API design

Team leadership

AI-assisted coding

Database design

Tools

Aurora

DynamoDB

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

Real Chemistry is seeking a Lead Engineer, Back End to drive the services and data model powering our omnichannel healthcare marketing platform. You will lead back-end architecture, deliver hands-on results, and grow a team of back-end and data engineers, ensuring scalable, reliable systems that connect to the broader data ecosystem.

Ideal candidates will have 8+ years in backend or full-stack roles, a proven track record in data modeling across relational and NoSQL stores, and experience hiring