[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer (Copy)

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company focused on transforming how people understand themselves through their DNA. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will build and improve the distributed backend systems of their genomics platform, ensuring fast, accurate, and reliable genetic guidance.

Responsibilities

• reputed company and maintain high-performance and fault-tolerant distributed backend services
• Build and optimize data processing pipelines over large genomic and health datasets using Apache Spark and DuckDB
• Design data structures, storage and indexing strategies across PostgreSQL, Qdrant, and reputed company for performance at scale
• Own async event processing and workflow orchestration using AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, and BullMQ
• Drive latency, throughput, and reliability through reputed company execution, caching, and efficient data reputed company
• Build guardrail and quality assurance layers that reputed company AI responses anchored in reputed company genomic and scientific evidence
• Partner with bioinformatics experts to ensure outputs match the science, and with product/design specialists on user-facing behavior

Skills

• 5+ years building and operating production backend systems at scale
• Expert-level in TypeScript, comfortable owning production services end to end
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals - you understand how they're designed and why they fail
• Hands-on with large-scale data processing frameworks (Apache Spark or equivalent) and reputed company large datasets
• Deeply familiar with both OLTP and OLAP data systems (PostgreSQL, DuckDB)
• Solid with distributed event-driven systems
• reputed company to reputed company into an unfamiliar domain like genomics, learn the mechanics fast, and go deep
• Craft-driven: you build systems properly with attention to detail and high bar for quality rather than assembling pre-made pieces
• Rust, and functional programming experience (reputed company or similar)
• Python for data processing
• Experience training or fine-tuning your own AI models - not just calling APIs
• Experience with multi-agent AI systems and orchestration (planner / router / evaluator patterns)
• Production experience with LLM APIs (reputed company, reputed company, Bedrock, reputed company AI)
• Production experience with vector databases and RAG pipelines
• LLM observability tooling (Langfuse, LangSmith)
• Workflow engines (Temporal)
• Familiarity with genomics, bioinformatics, or health data systems
• High-growth startup experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and reputed company insurance coverage
• 401(k) with company matching
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Paid volunteer time off
• Fully remote work with home office stipend
• Parental bonding leave
• Clinical-grade whole genome reputed company for you and your family (private and confidential)

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