Lead Backend Engineer
- $175,000 - $200,000
- San Carlos, CA
Hybrid Onsite in Bay Area- AI Start Up
A bit about us:
We are a bay area start up that is maximizing patient outcomes with tissue insights at the point of care. Using custom-built hardware and AI, our platform optimizes biopsy and surgical procedure workflow while delivering disease analytics early in the patient’s journey. This facilitates faster, more informed treatment decisions for patients as well as improved staffing and operational workflow for hospitals. Funded by healthcare and deep tech VCs, our team is looking to bring on a strong django backend engineer.
Why join us?
Featured benefits
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
401(k)
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
401(k)
Job Details
Responsibilities:
Implement and optimize socket servers and other data transmission methods to support low-latency image transfer.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and databases using technologies like Django, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Architect and deploy solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS, leveraging services like EC2, S3, Lambda.
Ensure secure handling of Protected Health Information (PHI) by implementing robust security and compliance strategies.
Collaborate with a cross functional team of frontend engineers, product managers, AI scientists, hardware engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless applications
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to junior and mid-level engineers.
Communicate technical challenges, solutions, and progress to non-technical stakeholders.
Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement enhancements to improve efficiency and reliability.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code while ensuring adherence to best practices.
Perform design and code reviews and manage documentation to ensure traceability across the product development process.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of progressive experience in backend development, including database design with ORMS such as Django, and databases such as MongoDB, or PostgreSQL
2+ years as a team lead or manager
Expertise in building and optimizing socket servers or data transfer solutions for large data sets with low latency.
Experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS.
Solid understanding of software architecture principles, RESTful API design, and microservices.
Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies
Proficient in handling and securing PHI with a strong understanding of security protocols and HIPAA compliance.
Works well in a small agile startup team.
Strong team player who believes that collaboration, trust, dedication, resilience, continuous improvement, ownership and accountability are the path to success
Ability to work on-site at our San Carlos CA facility.
Implement and optimize socket servers and other data transmission methods to support low-latency image transfer.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems and databases using technologies like Django, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Architect and deploy solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS, leveraging services like EC2, S3, Lambda.
Ensure secure handling of Protected Health Information (PHI) by implementing robust security and compliance strategies.
Collaborate with a cross functional team of frontend engineers, product managers, AI scientists, hardware engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless applications
Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and support to junior and mid-level engineers.
Communicate technical challenges, solutions, and progress to non-technical stakeholders.
Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement enhancements to improve efficiency and reliability.
Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code while ensuring adherence to best practices.
Perform design and code reviews and manage documentation to ensure traceability across the product development process.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
5+ years of progressive experience in backend development, including database design with ORMS such as Django, and databases such as MongoDB, or PostgreSQL
2+ years as a team lead or manager
Expertise in building and optimizing socket servers or data transfer solutions for large data sets with low latency.
Experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS.
Solid understanding of software architecture principles, RESTful API design, and microservices.
Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies
Proficient in handling and securing PHI with a strong understanding of security protocols and HIPAA compliance.
Works well in a small agile startup team.
Strong team player who believes that collaboration, trust, dedication, resilience, continuous improvement, ownership and accountability are the path to success
Ability to work on-site at our San Carlos CA facility.