Amigo is building AI that puts people first, focusing on healthcare to ensure AI systems are reliable and trustworthy before deployment. The Senior Software Engineer (Backend) will build the core backend infrastructure for their agent platform at scale, handling millions of conversations per month.
Requirements
- 4+ years of production-level experience with backend development languages
- Strong experience with concurrency programming, including threads, async operations, and parallelism
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems or working with distributed architectures
- Background working on SaaS platforms or with Service-Oriented Architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies
- Strong understanding of security best practices and experience with systems handling sensitive data
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts (consensus, replication, partitioning) without necessarily having built foundational frameworks
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-performance backend services handling concurrent requests at scale
- Build robust APIs and service-oriented architectures that power our agent platform
- Develop systems with concurrency patterns to maximize throughput and reliability
- Implement secure data handling for sensitive healthcare information with proper access controls
- Work with distributed systems concepts like consensus, replication, and fault tolerance
- Build resilient services that gracefully handle failures and maintain high availability
- Optimize system performance through careful concurrency design and resource management
Other
- Curiosity for elegant solutions and clean, maintainable code
- Strong debugging skills for concurrent and distributed systems
- Strong problem-solving abilities with focus on system reliability and performance
- Experience in healthcare, finance, or other regulated industries
- Understanding of observability and monitoring in distributed environments
