Novellia

Senior Backend Engineer

Novellia
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3 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
Novellia

About Novellia

11-50 employees

Novellia builds a consumer health-data platform that lets people in the United States retrieve and unify their medical records across providers in under 30 seconds, free of charge. The service aggregates and keeps nearly a decade of personal health records up to date in one place, and supports research collaborations using health insights. It is privately held, founded in 2023, and headquartered in New York City.

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