Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Doctronic is revolutionizing direct-to-patient healthcare through their proprietary AI system. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build scalable backend infrastructure for their AI doctor platform, ensuring medical safety and HIPAA compliance while handling millions of monthly consultations.
Responsibilities
- Scalable APIs using Python, FastAPI, AWS handling millions of monthly requests
- RESTful API development supporting our AI healthcare tools
- Real-time data processing for sensitive patient information (HIPAA-compliant)
- Internal API architecture for web platform and AI coordination
- Secure health record exchange with EHR systems, QHINs, healthcare networks
- Third-party integrations: telehealth providers, analytics platforms, healthcare APIs
- Large-scale sensitive data processing with encryption and compliance safeguards
- Partner API integrations across dozens of diverse healthcare systems
- Database optimization for high-volume healthcare data with complex queries
- Redis for secure caching and session management in healthcare environments
- Error handling, failover systems, disaster recovery for mission-critical services
- Performance optimization for rapid user growth
- Backend coordination for AI tools and decision-making workflows
- Python-based deterministic systems working alongside AI agents for clinical accuracy
- APIs supporting model inference, data preprocessing, result processing
- Infrastructure for AI safety: validation layers and human escalation protocols
- Healthcare compliance automation
- Advanced monitoring
- Multi-region deployment
- Backend foundation for next-generation AI healthcare features
Skills
- CS degree OR equivalent demonstrated expertise
- Engineering, Math, or related technical degrees welcomed with strong programming foundation
- Preference for graduates from top programs at top universities
- Preference for founders, founding engineers, or extensive startup experience
- Independent problem solver who collaborates well cross-functionally
- 6+ years backend engineering with Python and API development
- FastAPI, Flask, or similar Python web frameworks
- Cloud services experience
- RESTful APIs, high-volume traffic handling
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and optimization
- Redis, caching strategies, distributed systems design
- Third-party API integrations and webhook management
- Microservices architecture and distributed system patterns
- Security best practices for sensitive data and API design
- CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), deployment automation
- Monitoring, logging, observability tools
- Systems for healthcare, fintech, or regulated industries
- Healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR) and HIPAA compliance
- High-scale data processing and real-time systems
- AI/ML systems and model serving infrastructure
- Message queues, event-driven architectures, async processing
- Healthcare workflows, EHR systems, telehealth platforms
- Seed/Series A experience in healthcare or technology
- Advanced degree in CS, Engineering, or related field
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Competitive salary plus significant equity
- Direct CEO reporting with significant autonomy
- Access to leading technologies and healthcare experts
- Benefits reimbursement
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