Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 July 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Novellia

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1 - 10 employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Consulting • Healthcare Insurance

Novellia is a free personal health tool powered by users' health data, designed to provide individuals with control over their health records. The platform consolidates medical records into a single secure, shareable repository, offering personalized education on health conditions and medications. Novellia collaborates with top life science organizations to match users with clinical trials and contribute to future treatment innovations. The company is committed to understanding the patient experience through partnerships with patient advocacy groups and experts, providing a simplified, accessible health management solution.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in Novellia • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401k • Flexible Time off • Wellness stipend • Up to 12 weeks of parental leave