Lead Backend Architect: Scale, Data & AI

Real Chemistry; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free snacks

Generous holiday and paid time off

Private medical, dental, and vision

Retirement savings options

Mental wellness coaching

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

Real Chemistry is hiring a Lead Engineer, Back End to drive backend architecture and data model design for our omnichannel healthcare platform. You will lead back-end and data engineers, shaping reliability, performance, and cost while collaborating with data science and product teams.

The role calls for 8+ years in backend or full-stack engineering with 2+ years leading a team, API contract leadership, and experience across relational and NoSQL stores. Hybrid/remote work options available.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in back-end or full-stack engineering.
• 2+ years leading a team.
• Experience with data modeling and API contracts.
• Experience collaborating with data science is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform's application data model in Aurora and DynamoDB.
• Define API contracts together with the frontend lead.
• Direct reliability, performance, and cost with DevOps.
• Partner with data science to productionize models.
• Hire and lead back-end and data engineers.
• Set coding standards and CI-enforced testing.
• Collaborate with product and design on scope and sequencing.

Skills

Back-end engineering

Team leadership

API design

Tools

Amazon Aurora

DynamoDB

API contracts

CI/testing

Job description

Real Chemistry is hiring a Lead Engineer, Back End to drive backend architecture and data model design for our omnichannel healthcare platform. You will lead back-end and data engineers, shaping reliability, performance, and cost while collaborating with data science and product teams.

The role calls for 8+ years in backend or full-stack engineering with 2+ years leading a team, API contract leadership, and experience across relational and NoSQL stores. Hybrid/remote work options available.