Software Engineer - I

H1; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible work hours

Work from anywhere

Wellness holidays

Job summary

H1 is seeking a Software Engineer for the Search Engineering team to support and expand our search infrastructure handling large-scale data and medical information.

You will design high-performance APIs with Node.js and GraphQL, contribute to ingestion, indexing, and retrieval, collaborate with product managers and data engineers, and own parts of the codebase to ensure speed, reliability, and scalability.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong back-end API design with robust testing.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes and cloud-native AWS.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain search infrastructure with Elasticsearch-backed pipelines.
• Design high-performance APIs with low latency for search use cases.
• Build end-to-end features using Node.js and GraphQL.
• Collaborate with product managers and data engineers to align on direction.
• Own the search codebase; debug and optimize for stability and scale.
• Write clean, maintainable code and focus on performance.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

GraphQL

Elasticsearch

Docker

Kubernetes

PySpark

Airflow

LLMs

AWS EMR

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

Elasticsearch

PySpark

Airflow

LLMs

AWS EMR

Job description

At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is a basic human right. Our mission is to provide a platform that can optimally inform every doctor interaction globally. This promotes health equity and builds needed trust in healthcare systems. To accomplish this our teams harness the power of data and AI-technology to unlock groundbreaking medical insights and convert those insights into action that result in optimal patient outcomes and accelerates an equitable and inclusive drug development lifecycle. Visit h1.co to learn more about us.

As a Software Engineer on the Search Engineering team, you will support and develop the search infrastructure of the company. This involves working with TB’s of data, indexing, ranking, and retrieval of medical data to support the search in backend infra.

WHAT YOU’LL DO AT H1

The Search Engineering team is responsible for developing and maintaining the company’s core search infrastructure. Our objective is to enable fast, accurate, and scalable search across terabytes of medical data. This involves building systems for efficient data ingestion, indexing, ranking, and retrieval that power key product features and user experiences.

As a Software Engineer on the Search Engineering team, your day typically includes:

• Working with our search infrastructure – writing and maintaining code that ingests large-scale data in Elasticsearch.
• Designing and implementing high-performance APIs that serve search use cases with low latency.
• Building and maintaining end-to-end features using Node.js and GraphQL, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams – including product managers and data engineers to align on technical direction and deliver impactful features to our users.
• Take ownership of the search codebase–proactively debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues quickly to ensure stability and performance.
• Consistently produce simple, elegant designs and write high-quality, maintainable code that can be easily understood and reused by teammates.
• Demonstrate a strong focus on performance optimization, ensuring systems are fast, efficient, and scalable.
• Communicate effectively and collaborate across teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in AI and search technologies, identifying opportunities to integrate cutting‑edge capabilities into our platforms.

ABOUT YOU

You bring strong hands‑on technical skills and experience in building robust backend APIs. You thrive on solving complex challenges with innovative, scalable solutions and take pride in maintaining high code quality through thorough testing. You are able to align your work with broader organizational goals and actively contribute to strategic initiatives. You proactively identify risks and propose solutions early in the project lifecycle to avoid downstream issues. You are curious, eager to learn, and excited to grow in a collaborative, high‑performing engineering team environment.

REQUIREMENTS

• 1–2 years of professional experience.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript and Python with an emphasis on designing for reliability and scale, and writing well‑tested components.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good to have: Big Data technologies (e.g., AWS EMR, PySpark, Airflow), GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and LLMs.
• Familiarity with cloud native development practices in AWS is a plus.

Not meeting all the requirements but still feel like you’d be a great fit? Tell us how you can contribute to our team in a cover letter!

H1 OFFERS

• Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off
• Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays
• Retirement options
• Health & charitable donation stipends
• Impactful Business Resource Groups
• Flexible work hours & the opportunity to work from anywhere
• The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe