System is seeking to design and deploy scalable, data-intensive pipelines and backend services that power high-impact applications advancing public benefit goals in healthcare
Requirements
- Strong experience with REST API development
- Expertise in writing distributed, highly available, enterprise grade services
- A deep understanding of systems design, data structures, and algorithms
- Knowledge in using, maintaining, and documenting infrastructure as code in cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Strong experience with at least one modern programming language, such as Python, Typescript, or Go
- Ability to be flexible, rational and open-minded
- Design, build, and maintain intuitive, high-performance data visualization tools that make complex information accessible and actionable, supporting transparency and open knowledge sharing.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that advance the company’s public benefit mission and support open data and open knowledge initiatives, ensuring reliability, scalability, and measurable societal impact.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate public benefit objectives and open science principles into technical requirements and system designs.
- Architect and maintain backend systems that reliably serve large user bases and high-volume data workloads, while prioritizing data transparency, accessibility, and ethical use.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design robust APIs and open data interfaces that empower external researchers, partners, and the public.
- Prototype and research new tools for improving existing data infrastructure (e.g., vector databases, distributed data systems, high-performance storage layers), with an emphasis on sharing and enabling open science.
- Be involved in code reviews, unit testing and development strategies in an agile environment
- Help shape our engineering culture, contributing to best practices and lessons you’ve learned throughout your career
Other
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Ability to be flexible, rational and open-minded
- Influence culture, recruit new engineers, and shape a rapidly growing startup
- Job applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States of America and must maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.
