Knowtex

Knowtex

Backend Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 140 days ago
PythonDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentNoSQLDynamoDBAWSCloud PlatformsCI/CDRESTMachine LearningData EngineeringComplianceHIPAAEHR/EMRProblem Solving

About the role

  • We're at an inflection point where cutting-edge AI meets real clinical impact, giving clinicians hours back each day to focus on what matters most - their patients.
  • This role is critical to ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance as we expand across commercial and federal healthcare systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend services and APIs
  • Build and maintain microservices supporting AI-driven clinical workflows
  • Develop and optimize data pipelines for real-time processing
  • Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize model inference systems
  • Design secure, compliant data architectures (HIPAA-aware systems)
  • Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions
  • Support integration efforts with EHR systems and third-party platforms
  • Experience designing and building RESTful APIs

Requirements

  • 3-6+ years of experience in backend software engineering
  • Strong proficiency in Python or similar backend languages
  • Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases

Nice to have

  • Experience working with ML-enabled systems or model inference APIs
  • In-depth knowledge of AWS services (Lambda, ECS, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.)
  • Experience integrating with third-party APIs or EHR systems
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Python-based backend services
  • AWS cloud infrastructure (including GovCloud environments)
  • ML-enabled application platforms
  • CI/CD pipelines and containerized services

Compensation

  • Meaningful equity compensation

This listing is sourced directly from Knowtex's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.