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Principal Software Engineer, Backend
AlphaMeld Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
AWSDjangoDockerPostgresPythonTerraform
About the role
- Take ownership of developing a significant part of the Onos platform through hands-on development and technical leadership
- Work closely with founding team and help build and lead a growing engineering team
- Architect and implement major platform components to provide actionable insights and recommendations to health plan administrators
- Develop robust integrations with healthcare systems and build scalable data pipelines for health records, provider directories, and claims processing
- Work closely with ML/LLM engineers to build and optimize models for behavioral and mental health
- Establish engineering best practices and technical foundations for future team growth
- Shape technical roadmap, make key architectural decisions, and influence product strategy
- Develop an intelligent engine that ingests complex medical standards of care documents and evaluates provider adherence to guidelines
- Design and implement sophisticated anomaly detection systems to identify fraudulent or abusive providers
- Build ML pipelines to analyze large amounts of medical records and automate recommendations for clinical reviewers
- Scale systems to process millions of healthcare records while maintaining strict security and compliance requirements
Requirements
- 5+ years experience building robust and well-architected software applications
- Customer obsessed and motivated to make an impact in the healthcare space
- Expertise with data engineering and backend web development practices
- Hands-on leader and collaborative team player with attention to the details
- Experience with Python, Django, Django Ninja, Celery/Celery Beat
- Experience with PostgreSQL (AWS RDS) and S3
- Experience with AWS (ECS, Bedrock, etc.), Docker, Terraform
- Familiarity with Github, Jira, Cursor
- Bonus: significant experience working with healthcare data and HIPAA best practices
- Bonus: experience with machine learning and large language models for end-user applications
- Bonus: experience building and managing engineering teams on major software projects
Benefits
- Flexible hybrid arrangement: 1-2 days/week at San Francisco office (financial district), remote-first culture
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Paid parental leave
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- 401(k)
- Significant equity as an early employee
- Ground-floor opportunity to help build a team and culture
- Regular team events and offsites
- Company-provided equipment and home office setup
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Hard skills
PythonDjangoDjango NinjaCeleryPostgreSQLAWSDockerTerraformdata engineeringbackend web development
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationattention to detailcustomer obsessionimpact motivation
