Backend Engineer
HealthLeap
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $275,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build data pipelines that process millions of patient records daily
- Parse 50,000+ clinical notes per patient using LLMs - without hallucinating
- Integrate with hospital EHR systems (Epic, Cerner) - notoriously difficult, poorly documented
- Own infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes - deploy it, monitor it, fix it when it breaks
- Design systems for high concurrency and reliability - clinicians depend on this every morning
- Make hospital implementations easier to spin up and scale
Requirements
- 5+ years backend engineering experience
- Deep experience with distributed systems and highly concurrent workloads
- Solid with databases, data pipelines, ETL processing
- Comfortable with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code
- You figure things out - even when documentation doesn't exist
- You've operated production systems, not just built them
Benefits
- Equity: Meaningful ownership in an early-stage company
- Healthcare: 100% of premiums covered
- PTO: Unlimited, with a recommended minimum of 20 days
- 401(k): 4% match
- Equipment: Laptop + budget for your home office
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
backend engineeringdistributed systemshigh concurrencydatabasesdata pipelinesETL processinginfrastructure-as-code
Soft skills
problem-solvingadaptability