Backend Engineer - AI precision medicine company

Backend EngineerWe're looking for a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale services that power customer-facing products. You'll work across APIs, data pipelines, storage, and infrastructure to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance systems. This role blends hands-on coding with system design and a strong focus on operational excellence.What You'll DoDesign and implement backend services and APIs (REST and/or gRPC) used in production.Model data and build robust storage layers across relational and NoSQL databases.Build messaging and streaming integrations (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) to support asynchronous workflows.Own service reliability: monitoring, alerting, logging, and on-call participation for critical systems.Improve performance and scalability through profiling, caching, and query optimization.Ship code through CI/CD, automate testing, and participate in code reviews and design docs.Collaborate with product, frontend, data, and infra engineers to deliver end-to-end features.Tech You May UseLanguages: Python, Go, Java, or similarStorage: Postgres/MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, or a document storeMessaging/Streams: Kafka, RabbitMQInfra: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, TerraformAPIs & Auth: REST/gRPC, OAuth/OIDCObservability: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELKWhat We're Looking ForStrong backend development skills with proficiency in Python (or comparable language).Solid understanding of databases, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals.Experience building production APIs and services with strong reliability and security practices.Comfort with containers, cloud services, and infrastructure-as-code.Clear communication, ownership mindset, and ability to work collaboratively.Nice to HaveExperience with event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines.Background in high-throughput or low-latency systems.Data modeling for analytics or ML workloads.Security and compliance best practices for production services.Why JoinMeaningful ownership of core services with real user impact.Modern stack, strong engineering culture, and opportunities to influence architecture.Support for growth: mentoring, learning budget, and challenging problems at scale.About AndiamoTalent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world's largest and most well-known companies.For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.comJ-18808-Ljbffr