Backend Engineer – HealthTech

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🌐 Mexico, Colombia, +4 more countries – Remote

🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote 🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇵🇪 Peru – Remote 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – Remote 🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Remote 🇦🇷 Argentina – Remote

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Catena

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Catena, now known as Pearl Talent, is a company that specializes in helping organizations hire top remote talent from overseas, primarily focusing on candidates from the Philippines and Latin America. They offer a rigorous vetting process to ensure they provide highly capable candidates equipped with modern software skills and fluent English proficiency. Pearl Talent provides two main hiring services: Managed Services, which handles compliance, payroll, and training, and Direct Placement for companies that manage hires internally. They focus on long-term retention and quality in their hiring processes, aiming to build high-performing remote teams for a range of industries including healthcare, real estate, and finance.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and Fastify • Define API contracts and data shapes with the frontend engineer before implementation • Implement authentication and authorization using AWS Cognito or an equivalent • Build secure and reliable backend services for large-scale data requests • Develop reproducible and recoverable pipelines for large, inconsistent genomic data inputs • Write parsing and transformation logic for third-party vendor outputs • Harden pipelines against failures and optimize performance as data volume grows • Design PostgreSQL schemas and data models for genomic and health data • Architect AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, including CDK or CloudFormation • Set up secure storage systems for sensitive healthcare data • Collaborate with the frontend engineer on deployment workflows • Implement role-based access controls and data encryption for sensitive health data • Apply healthcare security and compliance requirements to architecture decisions • Work directly with the frontend lead and firm leadership as the second technical hire • Start as a contract engagement through Pearl and convert to full-time employment once the company is fully established

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, including building backend systems from scratch at an early-stage startup • Production experience with Node.js and TypeScript building RESTful APIs • Experience building data pipelines that process large, inconsistent data inputs with reproducibility and failure recovery • PostgreSQL schema design and data modeling • AWS deployment and infrastructure experience • Experience implementing authentication and authorization systems using AWS Cognito, Auth0, or OAuth • English at C1+ CEFR level for daily work with the frontend lead and firm leadership • Bioinformatics or genomic data processing experience (nice-to-have) • AWS CDK or CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code experience (nice-to-have) • Fastify framework experience (nice-to-have) • Healthcare or regulated-industry experience (nice-to-have) • Full-stack familiarity with Next.js (nice-to-have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and skills • Fully remote work from anywhere • Team incentives and recognition for maintaining 100% CRM hygiene and on-time reporting • Generous PTO in accordance with company policy • HMO coverage after 3 months for full-time employees (PH-based talents) • Direct mentorship from international industry experts • Ongoing learning and development resources • Global networking opportunities