[Remote] Sr. Backend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clinical Ink is a global life science company that integrates data, technology, and patient science to enhance clinical discovery. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and implement backend services, mentor engineers, and ensure the reliability and quality of their systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services in our Python stack: APIs, data models, migrations, async/eventing, and the integrations that feed the platform
• Own a domain end-to-end — from design through tested, observable, production-ready code, with the quality controls that back it up
• Build and harden third-party integrations (wearables, clinical data): OAuth, webhooks, retries, idempotency, token refresh
• Own your domain’s reliability: instrument it (metrics, traces, logs), define and defend its SLOs, write actionable alarms, and take a turn on-call. Contribute to the infrastructure that runs it (Terraform / AWS)
• Raise the quality bar: meaningful tests, good reviews, and safety/privacy treated as design inputs (encryption, least-privilege, PHI handling)
• Mentor mid-level engineers and lift the team’s standards
• Use AI coding agents to move fast — and verify and own what they produce

Skills

• Strong backend experience (Python / FastAPI / SQLAlchemy / Postgres or equivalent) and a record of owning features/services end-to-end
• Solid grasp of API design, data modeling, testing, and integration patterns
• Experience running services in production — observability (metrics/logs/ traces), SLOs, and enough infra/IaC familiarity to operate what you build (Terraform / AWS a plus)
• A bias to ship and a sense of ownership beyond your own commits
• Comfort using AI coding agents day-to-day, with the judgment to check them
• Clear communication — code, reviews, and writing others can follow
• AWS / Terraform, Snowflake / dbt, or Flutter exposure
• Health / regulated software (SaMD, IEC 62304, HIPAA) or other safety-critical domains
• Healthcare data / interoperability (FHIR, wearables: Withings / Polar / Whoop / Fitbit, Apple Health / Health Connect)

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