Senior Backend Engineer, Quanthealth

• At least 6 years of experience of backend development experience, SQL and API development
• At least 2 year of experience with each of the following: Python, Python microservice frameworks, dataframe-based frameworks (pandas/PySpark), CICD development, container orchestration platforms (EKS/ECS/podman/etc.), IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• ASGI Server: process/thread counts, pooling, event loop & async performance, etc

Desirable

• We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers to build the interface between the two: a service which provides clinical analytics, model training, prediction and LLM workflows
• Develop, maintain, optimize and harden a FastAPI microservice with diverse workloads
• Closely collaborate with other technical teams, working with
• Full Stack Engineering to define calibrated endpoint signatures and call sequence patterns
• Data Science to establish an ML model-object management & prediction interface and implement estimators, sampling methods and other clinically-relevant statistical analyses
• Author long-running PySpark jobs which run on dynamically-provisioned clusters to ETL and predict on billions of records
• Write optimized analytical SQL queries for our real-time distributed data warehouse
• Fine-tune the service’s deployment configuration for enhanced performance
• Design and implement a robust CICD pipeline for a single-tenant architecture, serving dozens of enterprise customers
• Manage the service’s infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code
• Configure observability and monitoring
• Author thorough unit, integration and performance testing suites
• Serve as a technical lead and advocate for the service in architectural discussions and company-wide technical decision-making