This role is responsible for designing, building, and scaling the backend systems and APIs that power GRG Health's AI-driven healthcare and life sciences platforms. The Senior Backend Engineer owns end-to-end backend architecture, ensures reliability and performance at scale, and mentors engineers across the team.
- Health Insurance/HMO
• Enjoy unlimited MadMax Coffee
- Diverse learning & growth opportunities
• Accessible Cloud HR platform (Sprout)
• Above standard leaves
- Architect, build, and scale backend services and APIs using Python and FastAPI
- Design and optimize relational and NoSQL data models across PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Build secure, high-performance RESTful APIs for data-intensive and AI-driven services
- Implement authentication, authorization, caching, and performance best practices
- Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and high availability of production systems
- Lead code reviews, enforce engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers
- Collaborate with frontend, AI, data, and product teams to deliver end-to-end features
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments on AWS
.• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience with Python
- Strong expertise in FastAPI and REST API design
- Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and MongoDB, including schema design and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and cloud-native deployments
- Experience with caching, message queues, and asynchronous processing
- Familiarity with AI-driven or data-intensive production platforms
- Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills
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