Senior Software Engineer I, Transforms Platform

Tempus AI•Chicago, IL

5d•$110,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Tempus is seeking a Senior Software Engineer I to join the Transforms platform team. This role will focus on building and evolving TransformHub, a service designed to simplify the development, execution, and operation of batch processing jobs in a HIPAA-compliant environment. The platform abstracts infrastructure, security, and compliance concerns, allowing scientists and engineers to concentrate on product development. The role also involves extending the platform into interactive agents, a synchronous, streaming runtime for chat agents, and supporting cross-system orchestration and complex data pipelines. The work directly contributes to Tempus's mission of using AI to empower clinicians and improve patient outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on platform engineering, data engineering, or backend web services.
Strong experience building and running containerized workloads (we use Docker) in production batch or distributed data systems on a public cloud (we use GCP — Cloud Batch and GKE).
Experience implementing security best practices for HIPAA and other sensitive data in production systems.
Experience designing and developing backend web services in a statically-typed language (TypeScript, Java, Rust, etc.); this role is primarily TypeScript and Node.js.
Demonstrated success translating complex business requirements into technical designs.
Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles.
Familiarity with relational database design and application-level operations, including schema migrations.
Experience monitoring and operating production platform systems, including user support and/or on-call duties.

Nice To Haves

Experience with GCP Cloud Batch and GKE, or their equivalents on other public clouds.
Interest in how AI agents are built and productionized — or in the platform problems underneath them, like streaming APIs, request/response runtimes, and safe deployment.
Experience building frontend enterprise applications (we use React).

Responsibilities

Drive the architecture, development, and maintenance of TransformHub — our core compute platform — enabling scientists and engineers to develop, deploy, and operate their algorithms and models at scale with built-in security and governance.
Own and improve the platform’s developer experience, making it easier for teams to onboard, build, and operate their workloads.
Help build our new synchronous, streaming runtime for interactive agents, alongside the existing batch execution system.
Help teams migrate workloads from our legacy platform onto TransformHub and adopt new platform capabilities.
Design, implement, and test production backend services in TypeScript, delivering features that expand platform capabilities, connect new data sources, and improve scalability and performance.
Support the teams building on TransformHub — answering questions, troubleshooting development and production issues, and unblocking their work.
Work closely with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders to turn business requirements into technical designs.
Raise the engineering bar through mentoring, code reviews, and best practices for code quality, testing, and documentation.
Take operational responsibility for platform systems in production — monitoring reliability and performance, responding proactively to issues, and participating in business-hours on-call.