Senior Backend Engineer for PreemptiveAI

This role is for the AI2 Incubator, an organization that supports founders in creating AI-first startups. Learn more about AI2 Incubator at ai2incubator.com.

A portfolio company of the AI2 Incubator

Despite spending far more of its gross domestic product (17% of GDP) on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, the U.S. ranks last on access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and healthcare outcomes. In the largest ever realignment of incentives, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) have committed billions to value-based payments that aim to promote care efficiency and reduced spend. The organizations that will succeed in this new model will move quickly towards predictive healthcare. 

PreemptiveAI is enabling providers, payers, and digital health entities to identify the highest-risk patients and prioritize them for care coordination and targeted interventions, in order to prevent escalations. Using deep learning to analyze real-time smartphone and wearable sensor data, its technology can map physiological health risk in real time, enabling the future of population health management. 

We are seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to lead the development of our cloud backend infrastructure. In this role, you will work alongside world leaders in AI for healthcare and build critical software infrastructure to support our suite of mobile health sensing products. 

We would love for you to join us in transforming population health sensing and making quality healthcare more accessible to patients around the globe. 

To be successful in this role, it would help if you have: 

• Enthusiasm for building tools that can meaningfully impact the healthcare industry ● Passion for best practices in software engineering to produce well-architected, thoroughly tested and clean code 
• Collaborative spirit and willingness to work closely with colleagues toward a shared goal ● Growth mindset and desire to continually improve your technical and non-technical skills 

Required qualifications: 

• BS or MS in computer science or related field 
• 5+ years experience building, maintaining and scaling backend infrastructure (microservices, DevOps, databases, API integrations) 
• Deep understanding of cloud services, including infrastructure-as-code, serverless compute, databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data storage. Experience with AWS services preferred. 
• Expertise in designing and deploying REST API-based containerized microservices ● Experience maintaining and monitoring production systems in cloud provider such as AWS, GCP, or Azure 
• Proficient in Python programming including object-oriented design, testing, and dependency management 
• Understanding of web protocols, security best practices, and authorization patterns (OIDC, OAUTH) ● Passionate about the entire software development lifecycle starting from requirement gathering and planning to release and production maintenance 
• Excellent communication and organizational skills

What’s in it for you? 

• Opportunity for huge impact – you will help build and scale a company from the ground up ● Growth and equity opportunities at a venture-backed startup 
• Ability to collaborate daily with the founding team and core advisors including AI2 leadership ● Opportunity to start, build, and grow a team of engineers 

Does this role sound like a good fit? Email us at [email protected]. Include links that showcase your relevant experience (resume, websites, GitHub repos) as well as an answer to the questions: 

• Why are you a strong candidate for this role? 
• What backend experience do you have that has prepared you for this? 

DIVERSITY 

We strongly believe that incorporating diverse viewpoints is key to building an inclusive culture and a transformative product. At PreemptiveAI, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment and to encourage these values on our team. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal support opportunities are available to all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion is critical to the success of our team, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

About the AI2 Incubator:

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