Backend Software Engineer – AI/ML Integration

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data-processing workflows that support the HDE product.

• Create production-quality Python software for the ingestion, processing, validation, enrichment, and delivery of clinical data and documents.

• Integrate generative AI, NLP, OCR, and various machine-learning services into secure and dependable backend applications.

• Transform product requirements, technical specifications, and data contracts into maintainable software components.

• Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and event-driven processing workflows.

• Process both structured and unstructured healthcare data to generate consistent, standards-compliant outputs.

• Implement automated unit, integration, and regression testing.

• Diagnose and resolve software, data, performance, and integration issues across distributed cloud services.

• Enhance application reliability through logging, monitoring, error handling, retries, and operational metrics.

• Assess AI-assisted extraction results and establish validation, grounding, confidence scoring, and quality-control mechanisms.

• Optimize services for performance, scalability, resilience, and cost-efficiency.

• Safeguard sensitive healthcare information by adhering to security, privacy, and data-handling requirements.

• Engage in design discussions, code reviews, estimation, sprint planning, and collaborative problem-solving.

• Collaborate with software engineers, AI/ML engineers, data engineers, product managers, and domain experts.

• Contribute to technical documentation, engineering standards, and the ongoing enhancement of development processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, along with 4+ years of relevant professional experience; additional experience may be taken into account in lieu of a degree.

• Proven software development experience utilizing Python or a similar backend programming language.

• Experience in developing and maintaining production backend services, APIs, or data-processing applications.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented and modular software design, data structures, error handling, and sustainable coding practices.

• Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON-based data contracts, and asynchronous or event-driven processing.

• Experience with relational databases and SQL.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms and managed services, preferably AWS.

• Experience in integrating AI/ML models or managed AI services into software applications.

• Working familiarity with NLP, document processing, generative AI, or information-extraction concepts.

• Proven experience writing automated tests and troubleshooting software in both development and deployed environments.

• Proficiency in using Git and participating in collaborative development and code-review processes.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Capability to independently complete assigned features and contribute to the design of moderately complex software components.

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance or Public Trust/suitability determination, as required by the program.

• Preferred: Familiarity with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, S3, API Gateway, RDS/PostgreSQL, CloudWatch, Bedrock, Textract; knowledge of healthcare records or protected health information; understanding of FHIR or HL7; experience with document processing, OCR, NLP, or generative AI extraction pipelines; AI result evaluation; responsible AI practices; Terraform; CI/CD; PostgreSQL; distributed workflows; message queues; Docker; experience in professional services, healthcare, government, or federal consulting; Domain-Driven Design; specification-driven development; test-driven development.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Competitive salary with performance bonuses.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Generous vacation and paid time off.