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Senior Backend Engineer

Nimblemind.ai

Nimblemind.ai

Software Engineering
United States
Posted 6+ months ago
About Us

Nimblemind.ai is revolutionizing healthcare by empowering providers to harness the full potential of clinical data. Our cloud-based SaaS platform simplifies data integration, structuring, and labeling, allowing healthcare providers to maintain security and privacy while unlocking AI-driven insights. Our mission is to enable smarter and more personalized patient care through robust Healthcare AI.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a mission-driven Senior Backend Engineer to design and build core services that ingest, model, enrich and serve healthcare data at scale. You’ll own critical backend systems end-to-end, from API design and data models to reliability, observability, and security. You will collaborate closely with AI/ML, Product, and Clinical Partners.

This is a high-impact role on a small but very senior team.

Key Responsibilities

Product & Platform Development

  • Design, implement, and operate backend services (APIs, job runners, data pipelines) for ingestion, curation/labeling, enrichment and data access.
  • Iterate quickly with Product to deliver high-quality increments; write well-tested, maintainable code.

Architecture & Reliability

  • Own service architecture and data models; drive scalability, performance, and operability.
  • Define and meet SLOs; build robust observability (distributed tracing, metrics, alerting).

Security, Privacy & Compliance

  • Build privacy-first systems for PHI handling (access controls, encryption, audit trails) aligned with HIPAA and industry best practices.
  • Partner with leadership to advance SOC2-ready practices (change management, CI/CD controls, incident response runbooks).

Data & Interoperability

  • Implement and evolve healthcare data integrations (FHIR/HL7, DICOM where relevant), mapping and validation, and versioned schemas.
  • Champion data quality: idempotency, lineage, reproducibility, and clear SLAs for data services.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

  • Work closely with AI/ML to productionize models via stable interfaces and evaluation hooks.
  • Contribute to engineering standards, design docs, and code reviews; mentor peers and elevate the team’s bar.

Operational Excellence

  • Optimize system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Implement processes and tools that scale with the platform and team.
  • Monitor engineering metrics to ensure uptime, performance, security and cost-efficiency.

Customer-Centric Development

  • With guidance from the VP of Engineering, build secure, compliant, and high-trust systems to meet the unique needs of healthcare providers.
  • Advocate for and build ethical AI practices.
  • Ensure our AI solutions prioritize patient privacy and data security standards.

Qualifications

Must-Haves

  • 7+ years of backend or platform engineering experience (or equivalent impact) building cloud-native services at scale.
  • Proven ability to design APIs and data models, reason about distributed systems, and ship high-quality services end-to-end.
  • Hands-on experience with reliability engineering (SLOs, alerting), secure coding, and production operations.
  • Strong communication: clear design docs, thoughtful trade-offs, and collaborative execution with product/AI partners.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Healthcare domain experience: FHIR/HL7, DICOM, healthcare data privacy.
  • Security & compliance exposure: HIPAA safeguards, SOC 2 practices, audit logging.
  • Experience with ML/AI in production (batch/online inference, evaluation, safety/ethics).
  • Early-stage experience and bias to action; ability to thrive with autonomy and ambiguity.

Why Join Nimblemind.ai?

  • Be part of a mission-driven company shaping the future of healthcare.
  • Lead the development and design of groundbreaking products.
  • Collaborate with a world-class team of healthcare and technology innovators.
  • Competitive compensation package, including equity in a fast-growing startup.