Senior Software Engineer

Beacon; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Office hubs

Remote-friendly culture

Job summary

Beacon Biosignals seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Datastore team. You will design and scale backend data infrastructure, focusing on PostgreSQL models, Kafka pipelines, and a GraphQL API to enable clinical data workflows.

You will own data pipelines delivering dataset snapshots to our warehouse, write SQL by hand, and draft RFCs for complex feature discovery and design phases.

Qualifications

• Proficient in PostgreSQL data modeling and query optimization.
• Experience with Kafka-based event pipelines and streaming data.
• Familiar with GraphQL APIs and API design.
• Strong systems design and performance tuning for backend services.

Responsibilities

• You partner with product managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data integrations and services.
• You design and implement features with emphasis on data integrity, correctness, and maintainability.
• You draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases.
• You own data pipelines delivering dataset snapshots into our warehouse and ensure idempotent behavior.
• You collaborate with platform teams to expose robust APIs enabling new workflows.

Skills

SQL

PostgreSQL

GraphQL

Kafka

Data modeling

Backend design

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

GraphQL

Job description

Beacon Biosignals is transforming precision medicine for the brain, from clinical development to clinical care. For Life Sciences partners, we offer the leading at-home EEG platform for clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our Diagnostics business is building the most comprehensive at-home platform for precision diagnostics, combining EEG and cardiopulmonary signals to deliver reimbursable assessments for sleep and central nervous system disorders. Together, we're changing the way patients are diagnosed and treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology.

Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Datastore team. The Datastore sits at the heart of Beacon's platform. It defines our foundational data model and serves as the centralized repository and API for brain data collected from clinical studies, supporting the analytical tools, services, and applications used by our scientists, clinicians, and partners.

This role emphasizes the design and scaling of backend systems for data infrastructure: PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, and a GraphQL API that enables scientific and clinical data use - distinct from frontend development or end-user product surfaces. You will lead the design and integration of new services and components for data and event processing, own the pipelines that deliver dataset snapshots into our warehouse, and collaborate with platform and application teams to implement APIs that unlock new workflows in Beacon’s expanding portfolio of clinical studies and digital health products.

You should expect to write SQL by hand, and to reason about schema design, indexes, and query behavior as a matter of course.

Beacon's robust asynchronous work practices ensure a first-class remote work experience, but we also have in-person office hubs available located in Boston, New York and Paris. This role is fully remote working anywhere in the US.

What success looks like

• You partner with product managers, scientific and clinical stakeholders, internal stakeholders, and other development and support teams to translate their requirements into new integrations, services, and solutions for scaling Beacon's data platform
• You implement features with attention to detail, demonstrating product awareness and high standards for data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability across the lifespan of the system
• You draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases, soliciting and incorporating input, and helping your team align on a set of decisions to guide development
• You hold a high bar for correctness when data moves between systems: completeness, idempotency, and predictable behavior under partial failure
• You leverage feedback from internal stakeholders and external partners to improve operational robustness and ease of use of the Datastore and its services