Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Platform (Hybrid/Seattle)

Mcghealth; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/Hybrid work

Travel for events

Health insurance

401K plan

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Volunteer days

Job summary

MCG Health, based in Seattle, is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and operate internal APIs within our data science ecosystem. You will help own the experiment-to-production path, monitor capacity, and improve observability.

We emphasize AI-assisted and human-owned development, with strong team accountability and collaboration. You will collaborate across teams, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor peers while shaping scalable, reliable infrastructure in a hybrid

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience, backend services or integrations.
• Proficient in Python and Go (Golang).
• Strong written communication and documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain network delivery solutions for MCG Data Science SDKs.
• Collaborate to understand contracts, implement to spec, surface blockers.
• Write and maintain docs and runbooks for owned systems.
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive reliability improvements.
• Provide expert code reviews and technical mentorship.
• Design modern infrastructure solutions (cloud, Kubernetes, LLMs).

Skills

Python

Golang

Backend development

Pair programming

Documentation

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes (K8s)

Cloud platforms

LLMs

Job description

MCG Health, based in Seattle, is hiring a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and operate internal APIs within our data science ecosystem. You will help own the experiment-to-production path, monitor capacity, and improve observability.

We emphasize AI-assisted and human-owned development, with strong team accountability and collaboration. You will collaborate across teams, participate in on-call rotations, and mentor peers while shaping scalable, reliable infrastructure in a hybrid