Junior Backend/AI Engineer

Our HealthTech client is seeking a Junior Backend/AI Engineer to join their growing team.

The Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer will work fully remotely from India.

A bit about my client and their culture:

Their mission is to build the future of healthcare. To help them succeed, they’re creating a unique employee culture. They’re fanatically customer-obsessed, crafting world-class products that customers love with every interaction. The company takes extreme ownership and accountability of their work, seeing whatever they do through to completion. They communicate candidly and directly with each other, even when it's uncomfortable. They’re innately curious, open to alternative perspectives, and invest passionately in their own continuous growth.

Junior Backend/AI Engineer – Role Description:

As a Backend/AI Engineer, you will join our world-class engineering team in building the foundation for the companies Platform. You will work on parsers for programming languages (SAS, R, and Python) used by statistical programmers in clinical trial analyses. You will transform the results into graphs based on which we build the Platform products. In addition, you will use the results to fine-tune LLMs to enable code explanation, question answering and data exploration systems, and automate creating new analyses.

You will be responsible for extensive automated testing and strong participation in analysis, design, building and deployment of the entire analytics and backend stack. As part of our core team, you will join us in building and testing new functionality, troubleshooting customer issues, finding root causes, and deploying required fixes to ensure maximal user impact and performance.

We run code analysis pipelines based on Antlr4 and Java. Our application stack is currently based on Next.js and Theia (Express.js and React/TypeScript) and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes in the cloud. Git is where our code lives, and Github Actions is how it gets out into the world.

Junior Backend/AI Engineer – Requirements: (Please note, the below requirements are a guide, you do not need all of the required experience!)

• Experience with and strong interest in programming languages and parsing algorithms
• Extensive experience in at least one low-level programming language, preferably Java
• Extensive hands-on experience with ML/AI concepts, especially LLM fine-tuning
• Experience with graph theory and algorithm implementation
• Experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues
• Experience in testing, integration testing, build and release management (CI/CD, Github Actions/similar)
• Strong focus on building as a team
• Strong communication skills
• “If it’s not code and documented, it doesn’t exist”-mindset
• Iteration mindset
• We & mission mindset

Bonus points for:

• Experience with compilers / interpreters
• Experience with Antlr4 / similar parsing framework

Junior Backend/AI Engineer - Benefits:

• What you build impacts the lives of people around the world
• Highly collaborative, ambitious and world-class team
• Employee Stock Options Plan
• All remote, asynchronous work environment
• Additional benefits depending on country of residence