Sr. Backend Engineer

About Opmed.ai

Opmed.ai is an innovative startup dedicated to improving the efficiency and resilience of healthcare operations. Our mission is to help healthcare providers deliver better care to their patients by optimizing planning, scheduling, and operations through the use of AI, Network science, and advanced optimization algorithms.

We seek a highly skilled and motivated Senior Backend Engineer with a passion for startups and ideally genuine interest in ML and Data to join our team at Opmed.ai

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of critical backend services within the Opmed.ai’s product
• Design & Implement architectural improvements to enable scalability and robustness of our backend solution
• Design and maintain schemas and data structures for our product.
• Develop data integration processes and pipelines
• Create ETL/Streaming processes to ingest & transform diverse data from customers
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analyses

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience as a Backend Engineer in a fast-paced SaaS environment
• At least 3 years experience in backend development - preferably Python, relevant web frameworks (eg. Django, Flask…) and data manipulation libraries
• REST API design and development experience
• Experience in a Cloud Native environment, such as AWS - a must.
• Experience with both relational databases - e.g., PostgreSQL / MySQL - and NoSQL DBs
• Excellent knowledge of SQL with advanced analytics data orientation
• Very good understanding of data and schema standards and concepts
• Experience with Code Testing methodologies and frameworks
• Experience with CI/CD methodologies
• Comfortable with using Git source version control and issue tracking systems
• Strong expertise in agile development and ability to adapt to changing business priorities
• Can-do approach, critical thinking, thirst for knowledge and drive for bringing real impact
• Accountability & high sense of ownership for your work
• Excellent decision making, communication and collaboration skills
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal

It will be great if you have:

• A Solid experience as a Backend and Data Engineer or a similar role of working with data.
• Experience in building scalable data pipelines & the challenges involved
• Background in MLOps

We're a well-funded startup whose product is deployed in leading healthcare organizations in the US. We like fun and super-smart people, and we're pretty serious about making healthcare radically better.

At Opmed.ai, we believe in the importance of fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, and we value diversity and inclusivity in our workplace. We believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to succeed, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, cultural background, religious beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

We offer a dynamic and fast-paced environment, where you will have the opportunity to work on meaningful projects that have a real impact on our clients.

If you are passionate about problem solving, looking for a meaningful role in healthcare, and have a proven track record of building high-quality software, we'd love to hear from you!