Novellia

Senior Backend Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop backend services and processing pipelines that efficiently handle large volumes of healthcare data.
  • Integrate and optimize AI components, including LLMs, to power intelligent features and insights.
  • Own end-to-end feature development from conception through deployment and maintenance.
  • Collaborate with frontend, data, AI, product, and design teams to deliver data-rich user experiences.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, autoscaling, and other observability practices for services and data pipelines.
  • Apply software development, coding, testing, and deployment best practices.
  • Translate product requirements into technical specifications and help build the engineering team from the ground up.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 5 years of backend development experience building scalable distributed systems.
  • At least 2 years of experience in a startup environment.
  • Proficiency in one or more of Python, Node.js, or Java.
  • Understanding of RESTful API design, microservices architectures, backend observability, system design, data processing, analytics, and relational databases.
  • Experience delivering high-impact organizational projects and strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Preferred experience with message queues, data streaming platforms, vector databases, LangChain, LlamaIndex, prompt engineering, RAG systems, AI-driven similarity search, FHIR, and healthcare interoperability standards.

Benefits

  • Equity in Novellia
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k)
  • Flexible time off
  • Wellness stipend
  • Up to 12 weeks of parental leave
  • U.S. applicants only
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About Novellia

11-50 employees

Novellia is the first and only company that lets anyone in the US gain access to nearly a decade of their health data in under 30 seconds, 100% free. All your health records, across doctors, all in one place, always up to date. We work with the world's top researchers to safely turn health insights into life-changing action for millions of people across the world.

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