Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Novellia is the first and only company that lets anyone in the US gain access to nearly a decade of their health data in under 30 seconds, 100% free. They are seeking talented and experienced Backend Engineers to develop robust backend services and AI-powered features that process and analyze healthcare data at scale.
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services and processing pipelines that handle large volumes of healthcare data efficiently
- Integrate and optimize AI components, including Large Language Models (LLMs), to power intelligent features and insights
- Collaborate with frontend, data, and AI teams to deliver seamless, data-rich user experiences
- Take ownership of end-to-end feature development, from conception to deployment and maintenance
- Implement observability for services and data pipelines to enable effective diagnostics and surface performance insights through monitoring, logging, alerting, and autoscaling
- Implement best practices for coding, testing, and deployment to ensure high-quality deliverables
- Work closely with product owners and designers to translate requirements into technical specifications
- Stay up to date with backend best practices, emerging AI tools, and trends in healthcare interoperability and AI
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, with experience building scalable, distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Node.js, Java)
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and microservices architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Strong experience in system design, backend services, data processing, and analytics
- Solid understanding of backend observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, autoscaling)
- Hands-on experience with relational databases
- A history of delivery on high impact organizational projects
- Minimum of 2 years in a startup environment
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Passion for product development and a willingness to take initiative and ownership of projects
- Commitment to following best practices and standards for software development
- Wants to be part of building an engineering team from the ground up
- Experience with message queues, data streaming platforms, and vector databases
- Experience using LLMs to build real-world applications, leveraging tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and prompt engineering techniques
- Experience with RAG systems and AI-driven similarity search
- Familiarity with FHIR and healthcare interoperability standards
- Passion for creating robust, scalable, AI-driven systems that impact healthcare
Benefits
- Equity in Novellia
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible Time off
- Wellness stipend
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave
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