Founding Engineer (Python & Nextjs - AI)

Role OverviewOur client's small product squad (2 fullstack engineers + PM) ships quickly, but customer demand is growing faster than they can build. They’re looking for a senior, product‑minded engineer who can wear many hats — architecture, data, fine-tuning & RAG, with a bit of product taste — and help lay the technical and cultural foundations of the company.What You’ll DoOwn features end‑to‑end: design, build, ship, and iterate on backend services, web front‑end, and internal tooling.Scale their Gen‑AI stack: productionize retrieval‑augmented generation pipelines, implement evaluation harnesses, and harden monitoring/alerting.Shape engineering culture: introduce best‑in‑class CI/CD, code quality standards, security, and mentoring practices.Collaborate: work with product and sales to translate real patient pain points into elegant solutions.Influence roadmap: participate in product discovery, weigh technical trade‑offs, and keep us focused on what moves the needle.Required Technical SkillsCore technologies: Python, Postgres, MySQL, NextJS, LangSmith, AWS. We're flexible—use the right tool for the job.5+ years building and operating production softwareU.S. work authorization & residency requiredProven experience shipping LLM or conversational‑AI products at scale (LLM‑APIs, vector stores, agent frameworks)Proficiency in Python and modern JavaScriptFamiliarity with SQL and schema designComfort with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and infrastructure as code (IaC)Working knowledge of agents, vector search, embeddings, and RAG performance tuningProduct taste: you sweat the UX detailsGood communication skills: you can explain complex trade‑offs to non‑engineersNice-to-HavesPrior healthcare experienceUnderstanding of HIPAA, SOC‑2, or other security/compliance frameworksPerformance and cost‑optimization of ML workloads