Role: Full Stack Developer
Priority Location: South Africa / Latin America / Philippines
Working Hours: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
Salary Range: Market related
Type of contract: Independent Contractor
Type of job: Remote
About the Role:
We are seeking a Full-Stack Developer (Backend-Focused) with 5+ years of software engineering experience to join our 7-person technology team, led by a CTO who provides overall technical direction. This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving practical, real-world technical problems, taking ownership of their work, and building reliable solutions across our technology stack, with a primary focus on backend development.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Quickly understand existing code: Able to get up to speed on an existing codebase and begin making meaningful contributions quickly.
- Improve rather than over-engineer: Comfortable working within existing systems and making practical improvements without unnecessary rewrites.
- Strong problem-solving: Able to break down complex technical problems and identify practical, effective solutions.
- Good technical judgment: Makes thoughtful decisions around architecture, implementation, performance, and maintainability.
- Production-focused: Builds reliable, scalable software that is well-tested and ready for production use.
Key Responsibilities:
Backend & Integrations:
- Design, build, and maintain robust backend services, REST APIs, and third-party platform integrations (payment gateways, clinical databases, operational tools).
Data Pipelines & Warehousing:
- Improve data pipelines, BigQuery architecture, and reporting infrastructure to ensure 100% data integrity, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
Workflow Automation & AI:
- Build AI-powered agents and workflow automations using LLMs and modern frameworks to eliminate manual administrative and operational effort.
Full-Stack Execution:
- Own existing codebases incrementally; contribute to React-based internal tools, dashboards, and operational interfaces as needed.
Qualifications:
Non-Negotiable: AI & Automation Experience
- Must have hands-on experience building and deploying real-world applications using LLM APIs, AI agents, or modern AI frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI).
- Actually built and shipped AI-powered features or automations, not simply experimented with AI tools or used LLMs as part of their development workflow.
Non-Negotiable: Sensitive & Regulated Data Experience
- Must have professional experience working with sensitive, confidential, or highly regulated data in a production environment.
- This includes experience with data requiring strong security, privacy, access controls, compliance, or regulatory safeguards.
- Relevant experience may come from HealthTech, FinTech, LegalTech, GovTech, or other industries where protecting sensitive data is a core part of the technology environment.
- Candidates should understand the practical requirements of building and maintaining systems where data security, privacy, and compliance cannot be treated as an afterthought.
Core Technical Stack:
Primary Languages: TypeScript / Node.js (Strong emphasis), SQL, Python (beneficial for AI/Data)
Data & Cloud: PostgreSQL / Supabase, BigQuery, Looker Studio
Frontend / Internal Tools: React, Modern Web Frameworks
AI Frameworks: LLM APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, PydanticAI, or AI Agent architectures