Senior Backend Engineer, Config-Driven Platform

Sodalis AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sodalis AI in San Francisco is building AI-powered prescription operations and seeks a senior backend engineer to lead the platform's domain model, configuration layer, and tooling.

You will design scalable backend services and APIs, enabling a multi-pharmacy configuration approach with zero-downtime deployments and safe versioning. Collaboration with founders and early engineers is essential to shape the architecture and roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend systems in production.
• Strong system design: explain trade-offs clearly.
• Solid data modeling and API design for generalization.
• Built config-driven systems such as rules engines or rollout systems.
• Shipped 0→1 in startups and handle ambiguity.
• Time with solutions team and pharmacies to understand workflows.

Responsibilities

• Model the shared primitives (prescriptions, directions, insurance outcomes) and build the backend that turns each pharmacy's differences into configuration.
• Decide where the line between configuration and code sits for safety.
• Build the backend services and APIs behind internal tools used by the solutions team.
• Define and version the contract between engines and configurators for safe upgrades.
• Ship changes to a live system with zero-downtime rollouts.
• Partner with founders and early engineers on architecture and roadmap.

Skills

Backend design

API design

Data modeling

Config-driven systems

Multitenant platform

Versioning & rollout

Job description

Sodalis AI in San Francisco is building AI-powered prescription operations and seeks a senior backend engineer to lead the platform's domain model, configuration layer, and tooling.

You will design scalable backend services and APIs, enabling a multi-pharmacy configuration approach with zero-downtime deployments and safe versioning. Collaboration with founders and early engineers is essential to shape the architecture and roadmap.