Remote Senior Python Backend Engineer-Series C HealthTech

About the company: Our client is a Series C Silicon Valley HealthTech with teams in San Francisco and London. We are hiring a Backend Engineer to architect and build scalable systems for ingesting, processing, and managing diverse health data sources. You will work on the backbone of a platform that combines real-time data, AI insights, and personalized care pathways to transform healthcare delivery.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement scalable backend services that ingest, transform, and persist diverse health data
  • Build APIs and data pipelines for real‑time and batch processing, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance.
  • Integrate with external systems and protocols including FHIR APIs, BLE‑based devices, Apple HealthKit, and Google Fit.
  • Ensure backend services are designed for high availability, reliability, and low latency, especially for real‑time clinical decision support.
  • Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure HIPAA‑compliant handling of PHI/PII data.
  • Work cross‑functionally with product, clinical, and AI teams to align backend capabilities with user‑facing experiences and clinical workflows.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and data quality monitoring.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of backend development experience in Python
  • Experience with healthcare data types and sources: EHRs (FHIR/HL7), wearables (PPG, ECG, accelerometer), vitals, surveys.
  • Strong understanding of data security, encryption, access control, and handling regulated healthcare data (HIPAA, SOC 2).
  • Proficiency in building and maintaining RESTful APIs, message queues (Kafka, Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ), and cloud‑native services (GCP, AWS).
  • Experience with databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MongoDB and TimescaleDB) and data modeling for time‑series or medical data.
  • Familiarity with event‑driven architecture, microservices, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Focus: Software Development/Engineering

Industry: Medical and Nursing

Experience Level: Mid Management

Location: London

Contract Type: Permanent

Workplace Type: Remote

Salary: £90,000 - £120,000 per annum

Job Reference: QJN2S1-F439B6C9

Date posted: 27 October 2025

Consultant: Karen Cordner

#J-18808-Ljbffr Salary: GBP 90000 - 120000 per year Experience: 5 years required
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