Senior Backend Engineer

Alldus

Our client, an AI-driven healthcare organization, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team in New York. The successful candidate will build and scale the infrastructure powering a real-time clinical monitoring platform, developing services that process high volumes of neurological data, support clinical workflows and deploy machine learning models into production.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Python and Go services to process and deliver real-time neurological data.

• Develop and optimise data models, ingestion pipelines and retention policies for high-frequency time-series data.

• Create and enhance APIs that underpin clinical workflows.

• Work alongside ML engineers to bring research models into production and ensure inference services run reliably.

• Strengthen platform performance and reliability through monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and incident reviews.

• Build software that meets regulated medical device standards, covering cybersecurity, traceability and change control.

• Own technical delivery from defining requirements through development, deployment and ongoing support.

• Skillset

• At least 5 years’ experience building and operating backend systems in production.

• Strong Python development skills, including testing and concurrency using threads, processes and asyncio.

• Hands-on experience with event-driven or stream-processing systems, including partitioning, checkpointing, backpressure and at-least-once delivery.

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration, preferably Kubernetes.

• Strong relational database skills, including schema design and query optimisation.

• A proactive, resourceful approach, with the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into reliable, monitored services.

• Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions verbally and in writing.

• Experience with Go for networked or low-latency services and Azure services such as Event Hubs, Service Bus, Web PubSub, Blob Storage or AKS is a plus.

• Knowledge of large-scale data engineering, columnar formats such as Apache Arrow or Parquet, video processing or sub-second latency systems would be beneficial.

• Experience serving PyTorch models or developing healthcare technology and other regulated software would be an advantage.

Benefits

• Salary: $250k – $300k

• Equity.

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage.