Our client, an AI-driven healthcare organization, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team in New York. The successful candidate will build and scale the infrastructure powering a real-time clinical monitoring platform, developing services that process high volumes of neurological data, support clinical workflows and deploy machine learning models into production.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Python and Go services to process and deliver real-time neurological data.
- Develop and optimise data models, ingestion pipelines and retention policies for high-frequency time-series data.
- Create and enhance APIs that underpin clinical workflows.
- Work alongside ML engineers to bring research models into production and ensure inference services run reliably.
- Strengthen platform performance and reliability through monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and incident reviews.
- Build software that meets regulated medical device standards, covering cybersecurity, traceability and change control.
- Own technical delivery from defining requirements through development, deployment and ongoing support.
Skillset
- At least 5 years' experience building and operating backend systems in production.
- Strong Python development skills, including testing and concurrency using threads, processes and asyncio.
- Hands‑on experience with event‑driven or stream‑processing systems, including partitioning, checkpointing, backpressure and at‑least‑once delivery.
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration, preferably Kubernetes.
- Strong relational database skills, including schema design and query optimisation.
- A proactive, resourceful approach, with the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable, monitored services.
- Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions verbally and in writing.
- Experience with Go for networked or low‑latency services and Azure services such as Event Hubs, Service Bus, Web PubSub, Blob Storage or AKS is a plus.
- Knowledge of large‑scale data engineering, columnar formats such as Apache Arrow or Parquet, video processing or sub‑second latency systems would be beneficial.
- Experience serving PyTorch models or developing healthcare technology and other regulated software would be an advantage.
Benefits
- Salary: $250k - $300k
- Equity.
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage.