API Architect

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🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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🏛️ Architect

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SafelyYou

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

🏥 Healthcare

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

💰 $43M Series C - Safely You on 2025-01

Healthcare • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

SafelyYou is a healthcare technology company that uses proven artificial intelligence and clinical expertise to improve the quality of care for seniors across care settings. It provides AI-driven monitoring, analytics, and clinical support to care facilities and caregivers to detect falls and other safety events, reduce risk, and enable better outcomes and peace of mind for aging individuals and their families. SafelyYou primarily delivers its solutions to care organizations via enterprise/B2B channels.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate scalable APIs, microservices, and backend platform infrastructure using Python and AWS • Own the architecture, continuous improvement, and lifecycle of the External Data API • Serve as the technical bridge between SafelyYou’s internal data systems and customers • Support and evolve data governance tooling, including registries and data dictionaries such as the Event Registry • Establish patterns and best practices for schema governance, versioning, documentation, and compatibility • Support and evolve internal APIs used to provide data-system information to applications built by SafelyYou engineers • Provide documentation, implementation examples, and support while enforcing best practices and driving adoption • Architect and implement streaming data pipelines and transition from batch processing to real-time streaming architectures • Draft and maintain Architecture Decision Records, API specifications, and system documentation • Improve developer workflow and experience by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and repository documentation • Introduce and leverage AI agent workflows to enhance engineering efficiency and track industry trends • Develop AI skills that third parties may use when interacting with SafelyYou APIs and data products • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical strategy with business goals and support product launches and cross-team initiatives • Mentor team members, share technical expertise, and participate in on-call rotations • Hands-on implementation and support of the systems designed

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in software, backend, or platform engineering, preferably in a startup environment • Deep expertise in designing, building, operating, and scaling RESTful APIs, web services, and distributed backend systems • Experience designing and implementing API gateways and management systems such as Kong Hybrid, Apigee, Gravitee, or similar systems • Strong opinions around authentication, routing, policy enforcement, observability, and deployment of API gateway solutions • Strong programming proficiency in Python, focused on clean, scalable, and maintainable backend code • Proven experience with streaming data architecture and technologies such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Spark Streaming • Experience making architectural and cost trade-offs between batch streaming and synchronous processing • Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS • Light DevOps practices, including containerization and deployment tools such as Kubernetes and Helm charts • Strong technical communication skills and a track record of writing ADRs, API specifications, and comprehensive architectural documentation • Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and improving developer environments • Hands-on experience with modern AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, including coding agents, MCP, AI pair programming, and LLM-powered research • Advanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform • Experience designing data models and architectures across ETL/ELT, warehouses, lakehouses, event-driven systems, and backend APIs • Strong foundations in data quality, reliability, governance, and scalability • Experience with electronic health records (EHR), healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR, and associated data privacy regulations such as HIPAA • Experience with remote work and distributed, async-first engineering teams • Candidates must be located in the United States or Canada

🏖️ Benefits

• A mission-driven company culture • Fully remote • Competitive salary & benefits • Fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision • 401k Program • Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends • Non-accrual PTO • Growth Potential • Company Retreats • Medical & Family/Parental Leave