AI Agent Backend Engineer
Ochsner Health1 day ago
New Orleans, LA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain server-side services, APIs, and system architecture for AI-enabled applications.
- Develop and document APIs and integration endpoints for front-end engineers, conversational flows, scheduling platforms, EHR systems, and other enterprise systems.
- Design and manage data storage solutions and server-side data structures while producing reusable, well-tested code libraries.
- Implement authentication, authorization, and security controls for protected health information and personally identifiable information in a HIPAA-regulated environment.
- Optimize services for speed, scalability, latency, stability, and production reliability, and troubleshoot defects and performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with product managers, quality assurance, integration engineers, and front-end and design teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Follow change-management and backup practices before making significant changes to production services and comply with applicable policies, laws, and standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in lieu of a degree.
- Five years of professional backend or server-side software development experience, including building and consuming APIs with Python/FastAPI and asynchronous frameworks.
- Ability to translate business and product requirements into scalable, high-performance technical solutions.
- Ability to independently manage system reliability, uptime, and production stability while balancing speed, scalability, and compliance.
- Preferred AWS experience and familiarity with modern deployment practices, including containers and CI/CD.
- Preferred hands-on experience with agentic or LLM-integrated services; relational and/or NoSQL databases; and healthcare or other regulated, HIPAA-relevant environments.
- Preferred AWS Certified Developer, Microsoft Azure Developer Associate, or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Developer certification.
Benefits
- Hybrid position with expected onsite presence approximately once per month and additional onsite travel based on business needs.
- Healthcare-setting role with sedentary work conditions and reasonable accommodation provisions.
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About Ochsner Health
Ochsner Health is a nonprofit healthcare system headquartered in New Orleans that delivers hospital, clinic, and virtual care across Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South. It operates more than 45 hospitals and over 370 health and urgent care centers, and also runs research and medical education programs. Founded in 1942, Ochsner’s revenue comes primarily from patient care and related services, with growing digital health offerings for chronic disease management and remote monitoring.