Senior Healthcare AI Backend Engineer

Ochsner Health; Louisiana; Vor Ort; USD 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Ochsner Health is seeking a Back-End Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the server side of AI-enabled applications, APIs, and services. You will work on architectures interfacing with front-end engineers, conversational flows, and integrated enterprise systems including the EHR.

The role requires 5 years of backend development experience with Python/FastAPI and async frameworks, plus a background in REST APIs, data storage design, and HIPAA-compliant security controls.

Qualifikationen

• Required - 5 years professional back-end/server side software development experience, including building and consuming RESTful APIs, with Python/FastAPI and async frameworks.
• Preferred - AWS experience; modern deployment practices (containers, CI/CD). Hands-on experience of Agentic or LLM-integrated services; experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases; experience in a healthcare or other regulated, HIPAA-relevant environment.
• Preferred - AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer
• Ability to translate business and product requirements into technical solutions.
• Independently manage system reliability, uptime, and production stability.

Aufgaben

• Designs, builds, and maintains server-side services, APIs, and system architecture for AI-enabled applications.
• Develops and documents REST APIs and integration endpoints consumed by front-end engineers, conversational flows, and connected enterprise systems.
• Designs and manages data storage solutions and server-side data structures, and produce reusable, well-tested code libraries.
• Implements authentication, authorization, and security controls appropriate to a HIPAA-regulated environment, including secure handling of PHI and PII.
• Inspects and optimizes services for speed, scalability, latency, and stability, and troubleshoot defects and performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborates with product managers, QA, integration engineers, and frontend/design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Follows change-management and backup practices before making significant changes to production services.
• Performs other duties as assigned; complies with all policies and standards.

Kenntnisse

RESTful APIs

Python

FastAPI

Async programming

Security & HIPAA

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Containers

CI/CD

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

LLM-integrated services

Jobbeschreibung

Ochsner Health is seeking a Back-End Engineer to design, develop, and maintain the server side of AI-enabled applications, APIs, and services. You will work on architectures interfacing with front-end engineers, conversational flows, and integrated enterprise systems including the EHR.

The role requires 5 years of backend development experience with Python/FastAPI and async frameworks, plus a background in REST APIs, data storage design, and HIPAA-compliant security controls.