Founding Backend / Infra Engineer (Remote)
About The Position
Our client is an early-stage, venture-backed healthcare AI startup building a next-generation personal health platform designed to shift healthcare from reactive treatment to proactive prevention. The company is developing a unified system that brings together fragmented health data—including laboratory results, wearable device data, imaging, and medical records—into a single intelligent platform. By combining modern infrastructure with AI and collaboration with top-tier clinicians, the platform enables individuals and healthcare providers to focus on improving long-term health outcomes rather than simply managing symptoms. With strong early funding, experienced founders, and a small but highly capable team, the company is entering a critical phase of growth. This is an opportunity to join as a founding engineer , help define the core architecture, and build foundational systems that power the future of proactive healthcare.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in backend software engineering .
- Strong experience building and maintaining APIs, backend services, and data pipelines .
- Experience designing scalable systems and database schemas .
- Proficiency with backend technologies such as Python and modern API frameworks .
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar) .
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced startup environment with evolving requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of complex technical problems and deliver solutions end-to-end.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for effective remote collaboration.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working at early-stage startups or as an early engineering hire.
- Experience building products from 0-to-1 or early production scale .
- Familiarity with health technology, digital health platforms, or regulated data environments .
- Experience integrating with health data standards or APIs (e.g., EHR systems, FHIR, wearable devices) .
- Experience with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code platforms .
- Exposure to AI-enabled products or systems interacting with machine learning models .
Responsibilities
- Design and build the core backend systems and health-data pipelines that power the platform.
- Integrate and process data from sources such as wearable APIs, medical records, lab data, and other structured or semi-structured inputs .
- Develop and maintain robust APIs used by mobile apps, web clients, and AI-powered features.
- Own backend architecture decisions, including database design, data models, and system scalability .
- Help define and implement infrastructure best practices across deployment, monitoring, and security .
- Work within a regulated environment handling sensitive health data, ensuring strong security and compliance practices .
- Collaborate with product, clinical, and engineering stakeholders to translate complex requirements into reliable systems.
- Take ownership of projects end-to-end—from initial design through production deployment.
Benefits
- Equity: Founding-level equity package
- Work Environment: Fully remote with a globally distributed team
- Team Culture: Small, high-trust engineering team with strong ownership and autonomy
- Impact: Opportunity to build core infrastructure for a product designed to improve long-term health outcomes
- Growth: Early-stage role with significant opportunity to shape technical direction and company trajectory
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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