Backend Engineer

Anomaly

Senior Backend Engineer building APIs and integration logic for healthcare solutions at Anomaly. Translating complex healthcare data into scalable systems to deliver insights to end users.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowJavaPythonScalaSparkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build integrations with healthcare and financial systems
Automate end-to-end data ingestion and delivery pipelines, with a strong focus on observability and data quality
Build GenAI features and chat to solve real problems and build user confidence, backed by rigorous evaluation loops and guardrails
Design high-throughput, low-latency systems where performance is a mission-critical requirement
Be the glue between our PhD-level Data Scientists and Front-end Engineers, taking raw outputs and building the APIs that drive a full, impactful product

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Ability to write idiomatic, testable, and maintainable code in Python, Java, or Scala
A "hacker mindset" — pragmatic, curious, and solution-oriented
Nice to have: Experience building reliable data and ML pipelines using SQL, Spark, or Airflow
Nice to have: Experience building and deploying online machine learning products
Nice to have: Experience developing high-volume, low-latency APIs

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonJavaScalaSQLSparkAirflowAPI developmentdata ingestiondata deliverymachine learning

Soft Skills

pragmaticcurioussolution-oriented