Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Fathom is seeking a Software Engineer, Backend to join their team in Toronto. The company's mission is to utilize AI to analyze and structure medical data, starting with the vast amount of clinician notes found in electronic health records. The role will involve developing data infrastructure, building interfaces, and creating scalable cloud-based machine learning systems. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of development experience and experience in building data pipelines. This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in working with machine learning pipelines and making a significant impact in the healthcare industry.

• Developing data infrastructure to ingest, sanitize and normalize a broad range of medical data
• Building performant and expressive interfaces to the data
• Creating infrastructure to help scale up data ingest and large-scale cloud-based machine learning
• 5+ years of development experience in a company/production setting
• Experience building data pipelines

• 5+ years of development experience in a company/production setting
• Experience building data pipelines

• 5+ years of development experience in a company/production setting
• Experience building data pipelines from disparate sources
• Hands-on experience building and scaling up compute clusters
• A solid understanding of databases and large-scale data processing frameworks like Hadoop or Spark and the ability to evaluate which tools to use on the job
• A unique combination of creative and analytic skills apt of designing a system capable of pulling together, training, and testing dozens of data sources under a unified ontology
• Know-how of developing systems to do or support machine learning, including experience working with NLP toolkits like Stanford CoreNLP, OpenNLP, and/or Python’s NLTK
• Expertise with wrangling healthcare data and/or HIPAA
• Experience with managing large-scale data labelling and acquisition, through tools such as through Amazon Turk or DeepDive
• Salary range: $160 000 - $220 000 CAD