Heidi Health

Senior AI Engineer

Heidi Health

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Melbourne • Australia

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformNoSQLPython

About the role

  • Working closely with the respective Engineering Manager, you’ll be a Senior/Intermediate Software Engineer who designs and scales the services that power our AI-driven products
  • Architect and build backend services that power LLM-based agents and clinical automations.
  • Design robust APIs & data models that are secure, observable and easy for other teams to extend.
  • Optimise performance and cost—profile hot paths, tune databases and right-size cloud resources.
  • Automate quality: write unit / integration tests, craft alerts and own on-call runbooks so clinicians can trust every interaction.
  • Partner with product, design and other engineers to ship new capabilities from concept to production in weeks, not quarters.

Requirements

  • Mastery of software-engineering fundamentals; Python is our primary language, but you move fluently between technologies when the problem demands.
  • Deep database expertise—schema design, query optimisation and scaling for both relational and NoSQL stores.
  • Cloud fluency (GCP or AWS): containers, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, security and observability.
  • Track record of shipping and operating systems at scale with high reliability.
  • Rigorous testing, code-review and documentation habits that elevate team standards.
  • Bonus points: hands-on work with AI/LLM services or real-time audio/streaming pipelines.
Benefits
  • Flexible hybrid working environment, with 3 days in the office.
  • A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum
  • Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team
  • Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company, if Heidi wins, we all win
  • The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia’s leading healthtech startups
  • If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonAPI designdata modelingdatabase optimizationNoSQLcloud computingCI/CDinfrastructure-as-codeunit testingintegration testing
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationattention to detailtime management