Senior Backend Engineer - Data

On this journey for over 12 years, Qventus is leading the transformation of healthcare. We enable hospitals to focus on what matters most: patient care. Our innovative solutions harness the power of machine learning, generative AI, and behavioral science to deliver exceptional outcomes and empower care teams to anticipate and resolve issues before they arise.

Our success in rapid scale across the globe is backed by some of the world's leading investors. At Qventus, you will have the opportunity to work with an exceptional, mission-driven team across the globe, and the ability to directly impact the lives of patients. We’re inspired to work with healthcare leaders on our founding vision and unlock world-class medicine through world-class operations.

About the role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in redefining healthcare operations by developing highly scalable systems and algorithms, contributing to our mission of simplifying how healthcare operates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leverage your outstanding technical expertise to deliver high-quality, secure, and scalable code.

• Design and implement backend systems that are resilient, performant, and capable of delighting care teams in a healthcare setting.

• Collaborate closely with the data team to build and maintain integrations, pipelines, and APIs that enable seamless access to critical data.

• Architect solutions using AWS services such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, RDS, and ECS, with a focus on scalability and reliability.

• Support the development and optimization of data workflows using modern tools like dbt, Databricks, and Snowflake.

• Stay up-to-date on modern security design principles, identify threats, and implement preventive measures across cloud architectures.

• Continuously learn new technologies and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Collaborate effectively with the team, fostering a culture of growth and shared success – a rising tide lifts all boats.

What We’re Looking For: 

• A degree in Computer Science (BS, MS, or PhD) or equivalent work experience with 8+ years in software engineering.

• 5+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, primarily working with Python.

• Proven expertise in Amazon Web Services, including designing and deploying cloud-native applications using AWS tools like Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, or similar.

It’s a Plus if You Have… 

• Strongly desired: Experience with frameworks such as Django, Django Rest Framework, and database systems like MySQL/PostgreSQL 

• Strongly desired: Experience in Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS.

• Familiarity with modern data tools such as dbt, Databricks, Airflow, Spark, and Snowflake for enabling data-driven solutions.

• Experience with event streaming solutions such as AWS Kinesis or Kafka

• Hands-on experience with AWS architectures, such as microservices or serverless patterns.

• Familiarity with NoSQL document databases such as DynamoDB or MongoDB

• A keen interest in ChatGPT, LLMs, and other GenAI technologies.

• Experience in healthcare tech, including Smart on FHIR, CDS, and EHR integrations.

• Prior work experience in enterprise SaaS companies.

The salary range for this role is $155,000 to $190,000. Qventus salary bands represent market data across different geographies. We consider several factors when determining compensation, including location, skills and qualifications, and prior relevant experience. Salary is just one component of Qventus’ total package. Some of our key benefits and perks* include but are not limited to: Open Paid Time Off, paid parental leave, professional development, wellness, and technology stipends, generous employee referral bonus, and employee stock option awards.

We believe that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to improving healthcare and society, and that’s why we’re building a company that leads the way. We hold ourselves accountable to using fair hiring processes that mitigate the negative impacts of unconscious bias. We also work to ensure that people from underrepresented groups play meaningful roles on both sides of the interview table. We are an equal opportunity employer and give all qualified applicants consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our candidate privacy notice which can be found here: https://qventus.com/ccpa-privacy-notice/

Employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of our pre-employment background investigation and drug test.

*Benefits and perks are subject to plan documents and may change at the company's discretion.