XTN-13EC841 | SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER (PYTHON).

About this role

This role is responsible for designing, building, and scaling the backend systems and APIs that power GRG Health's AI-driven healthcare and life sciences platforms. The Senior Backend Engineer owns end-to-end backend architecture, ensures reliability and performance at scale, and mentors engineers across the team.

• Health Insurance/HMO

• Enjoy unlimited MadMax Coffee

• Diverse learning & growth opportunities
• Accessible Cloud HR platform (Sprout)

• Above standard leaves

• Architect, build, and scale backend services and APIs using Python and FastAPI

• Design and optimize relational and NoSQL data models across PostgreSQL and MongoDB

• Build secure, high-performance RESTful APIs for data-intensive and AI-driven services

• Implement authentication, authorization, caching, and performance best practices

• Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and high availability of production systems

• Lead code reviews, enforce engineering standards, and mentor junior engineers

• Collaborate with frontend, AI, data, and product teams to deliver end-to-end features

• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native deployments on AWS

.• 5+ years of professional backend engineering experience with Python

• Strong expertise in FastAPI and REST API design

• Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and MongoDB, including schema design and performance tuning

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and cloud-native deployments

• Experience with caching, message queues, and asynchronous processing

• Familiarity with AI-driven or data-intensive production platforms

• Strong debugging, performance optimization, and problem-solving skills

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