Backend Engineer

About the role

Second technical hire building the backend of a consumer platform that combines genomic, wearable, lab and health record data. The engineer designs APIs, data pipelines and cloud infrastructure from scratch.

What you will do

• Design, build and maintain RESTful APIs with Node.js, TypeScript and Fastify
• Implement authentication and authorization, for example with AWS Cognito
• Build reproducible, recoverable pipelines for large and inconsistent genomic inputs
• Architect AWS infrastructure as code and set up secure storage for sensitive health data

What they look for

• Five or more years of backend engineering, including building systems from scratch at an early-stage startup
• Experience building pipelines for large, inconsistent data with reproducibility and failure recovery
• AWS deployment and infrastructure experience
• Experience implementing authentication and authorization systems such as AWS Cognito, Auth0 or OAuth

Nice to have

• Bioinformatics or genomic data processing experience
• AWS CDK or CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code experience
• Fastify framework experience
• Healthcare or regulated-industry experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and skills
• Fully remote work