Senior Backend Software Engineer, Citizen Health
$180-220k
+ Equity package
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Health data access & sharing platform
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Health data access & sharing platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-220k
+ Equity package
Office located in San Mateo, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To improve the lives of 400+ million people navigating rate and complex conditions.
Role
Who you are
- You are a passionate builder and problem solver who thrives in dynamic, fast-moving environments
- You value collaboration but are comfortable taking ownership and working independently
- You approach complex problems with creativity and empathy, always keeping the needs of patients and users front and center
- You enjoy working at the intersection of technology and healthcare and are excited about making a meaningful difference in people’s lives
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, with experience building scalable, distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Node.js, Java)
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and microservices architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Strong experience in system design, backend services, data processing, and analytics
- Solid understanding of backend observability (monitoring, logging, alerting, autoscaling)
- Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
Desirable
- Experience with message queues, data streaming platforms, and vector databases
- Experience using LLMs to build real-world applications, leveraging tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and prompt engineering techniques
- Experience with RAG systems and AI-driven similarity search
- Familiarity with FHIR and healthcare interoperability standards
- Passion for creating robust, scalable, AI-driven systems that impact healthcare
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend systems that drive our patient-focused platform
- You'll help develop the core infrastructure that enables seamless data integration, analysis, and AI-powered insights
- In this role, you’ll work with healthcare standards like FHIR and cutting-edge AI technologies to build solutions that support rare disease research and improve patient care
- Your contributions will help transform complex health data into actionable insights and ensure smooth data exchange across patients, providers, and researchers
- Design and implement high-performance, scalable backend solutions using modern technologies, Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and microservices
- Develop backend services and processing pipelines that handle large volumes of healthcare data efficiently
- Integrate and optimize AI components, including Large Language Models (LLMs), to power intelligent features and insights
- Collaborate with frontend, data, and AI teams to deliver seamless, data-rich user experiences
- Implement observability for services and data pipelines to enable effective diagnostics and surface performance insights through monitoring, logging, alerting, and autoscaling
- Stay up to date with backend best practices, emerging AI tools, and trends in healthcare interoperability and AI
- Collaborate to foster team growth through shared learning and advancement in backend and AI development practices
Our take
Citizen Health is an AI-powered platform that gives individuals with rare and complex diseases access to their health data. By centralizing records like clinical data, genetic information and patient-reported outcomes, it helps patients make informed decisions, share insights with caregivers and connect with others facing similar conditions.
The platform also accelerates medical research by providing researchers with critical patient data, speeding up drug development and clinical trials. By empowering patients to share their experiences, Citizen Health helps advance personalized care and faster therapies for rare diseases.
Only founded in 2023, the company is already making waves, with financial backing from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). With CZI's support, Citizen Health aims to expand its platform, innovate further and accelerate research to improve the overall treatment of rare diseases.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2024
$14.5m
SEED
Total funding: $14.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Company off-sites
- Work-from-anywhere 30 days of the year
- Unlimited PTO
- Potential for equity
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
Company HQ
Downtown, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
Farid Vij
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the President and General Manager of Patient Network and Data at Invitae. Prior to that, they co-founded Ciitizen where they served as the Chief Operating Officer.
Nasha Fitter
(Co-Founder & CBO)Co-founder and CEO at FOXG1Research. Previously VP at Invitae and Ciitizen. Also was founder and CEO of Schoolie (acquired by GreatSchools) and spent 6 years at Microsoft in a number of education related roles.
Daniel Wang
(CTO)Previously the Director of AI, ML and Pricing Engineering at Uber Freight. They also worked at Amazon as an Alexa Speech Recognition Model Engineer and co-founded Factory Method where they served as the CEO.
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