Senior Backend Engineer, Medical Data Pipeline (Python + Rust)

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity 0.1%-0.25%

Job summary

NeuralFrame is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the medical data pipeline, built with Python and Rust and deployed on AWS. You’ll develop ingestion, transformation, and storage services for hospitals and researchers.

We offer $170k–$210k plus 0.1–0.25% equity for a fully remote role in US time zones, with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Dagster, Terraform/OpenTofu, and GitHub Actions at the core.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend services or data pipelines in production.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the medical data pipeline end-to-end, from ingestion to analytics-ready output.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure reliability, testing, and performance.

Skills

Rust

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Dagster

Terraform/OpenTofu

AWS

GitHub Actions

Job description

# Senior Backend Engineer, Medical Data Pipeline (Python + Rust)NeuralFrame170k–210k USDFull-timeremote· seniorUS , US ; no visa sponsorshippythonrustpostgresmongodbterraformawssqlListed via Hacker News · posted 14 Oct 2026. The application happens there, not on DevConnect.Apply on the company site## DescriptionNeuralFrame | Senior Backend Engineer, Medical Data Pipeline (Python + Rust) | REMOTE (US only, US time zones; no visa sponsorship) | Full-time | $170k–$210k + 0.1%–0.25% equityWe build software that hospitals, cancer registries and researchers use. You'd own the pipeline that pulls data from hospital systems and transforms it for analytics and research.Where Rust fits: part of our hospital data acquisition layer, the code that talks to hospital systems, is written in Rust. You'd work on both sides: Rust where performance and correctness matter most, async Python for the rest of the pipeline. Rust experience is a strong plus. Whether you learned it at work or on your own, we want to hear what you built with it.Stack: Rust, async Python (mypy, pytest, ruff, uv), PostgreSQL and MongoDB, Dagster, Terraform/OpenTofu, AWS (ECS/Fargate, RDS, Lambda, S3), GitHub Actions.You'll need 5+ years building backend services or data pipelines in production (retries, idempotency, schema design and migrations, well-tested and typed code) and strong Python and SQL. No healthcare background needed.Apply: https://wellfound.com/jobs/4829721-senior-backend-software-e.... In your note, tell us in a few sentences about one pipeline failure you traced (what broke, how you found it, what you changed) and, if you've written Rust, what you built with it.