nahc.io

Senior Backend Engineer (Python / FastAPI)

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1 day ago
Taipei, TaiwanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Own the Python/FastAPI backend, including HTTP APIs, background workers, and production behavior.
  • Own PostgreSQL data modeling and evolution, including schema design, migrations, concurrency control, and query performance.
  • Build asynchronous, event-driven medical image-processing pipelines covering ingestion, de-identification, inference submission, and result handling.
  • Integrate authentication, GPU inference, and usage-metering services while maintaining resilience, tenant isolation, and patient-data privacy.
  • Define product-to-model and frontend API contracts, maintain architecture decision records, lead design reviews, and support the legacy TypeScript service.

Requirements

  • Require 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience, including production ownership of a designed system.
  • Require strong backend fundamentals, PostgreSQL and SQL expertise, concurrency knowledge, and experience with message queues, event-driven architecture, retries, dead-lettering, timeouts, and failure-prone external services.
  • Require disciplined engineering practices including static typing, automated testing, code review, CI/CD, Docker, and productive use of AI coding assistants.
  • Require the ability to work independently, set technical direction, challenge requirements constructively, and work in both Chinese and English.
  • Preferred qualifications include Google Cloud Platform, medical imaging such as DICOM and pydicom, regulated healthcare software handling protected health information, multi-tenant SaaS, database-enforced isolation, on-premise products, NumPy, computational geometry, React, and TypeScript.
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About nahc.io

1-10 employees

nahc.io is a privately held recruitment and human capital advisory firm serving startups and high-growth companies across Asia. It places talent in functions such as engineering/IT, sales, marketing, HR, finance, and strategy, and offers services like remote hiring, employer branding, and HR process setup. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

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