Senior Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with product managers, scientific and clinical stakeholders, internal teams, and development and support groups to transform requirements into integrations, services, and solutions aimed at scaling Beacon's data platform.

• Develop features with a focus on data integrity, sound design, and maintainability.

• Create RFCs to guide intricate feature discovery and technical design phases.

• Ensure accuracy when data transitions between systems, focusing on completeness, idempotency, and predictable behavior during partial failures.

• Utilize feedback from stakeholders and partners to enhance operational robustness and user-friendliness through documentation, tools, and dashboards.

• Design and expand backend systems for data infrastructure, encompassing PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, and a GraphQL API.

• Spearhead the design and integration of new services and components for data and event processing.

• Manage pipelines that deliver dataset snapshots to the warehouse.

• Work alongside platform and application teams to implement APIs that support clinical studies and digital health products.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in backend development, with a minimum of 2 years concentrated on data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications.

• Strong expertise in SQL.

• Practical experience with PostgreSQL as an application database.

• Proven ability to write and optimize queries manually, as well as to reason about schema design, indexes, and query plans.

• Hands-on experience with data streaming and event processing using Kafka or similar technologies such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or Amazon Kinesis.

• Proficiency in Julia or Python.

• Experience in deploying and managing services within containerized environments.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and/or Helm.

• Knowledge of GraphQL and TypeScript/JavaScript (Node.js).

• A collaborative mindset.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Self-motivated with a proven ability to succeed in hybrid or fully remote teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• PTO.

• Remote work experience.

• In-person office hubs available in Boston, New York, and Paris.