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QuantHealth · 3 months ago

Senior BackEnd Engineer (Python) - EU

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

6+ years exp

QuantHealth (QH) is an AI startup in the clinical trial space, leveraging AI and big data to simulate and optimize trials for pharmaceutical companies. They are seeking Senior Backend Engineers to build a service that provides clinical analytics, model training, prediction, and LLM workflows.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Clinical TrialsGenerative AIPharmaceutical

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, optimize and harden a FastAPI microservice with diverse workloads

Closely collaborate with other technical teams, working with

Full Stack Engineering to define calibrated endpoint signatures and call sequence patterns

Data Science to establish an ML model-object management & prediction interface and implement estimators, sampling methods and other clinically-relevant statistical analyses

Author long-running PySpark jobs which run on dynamically-provisioned clusters to ETL and predict on billions of records

Write optimized analytical SQL queries for our real-time distributed data warehouse

Fine-tune the service’s deployment configuration for enhanced performance

Design and implement a robust CICD pipeline for a single-tenant architecture, serving dozens of enterprise customers

Manage the service’s infrastructure with Infrastructure-as-Code

Configure observability and monitoring

Author thorough unit, integration and performance testing suites

Serve as a technical lead and advocate for the service in architectural discussions and company-wide technical decision-making

Qualification

PythonBackend developmentCICD developmentContainer orchestrationSQLFastAPIPySparkInfrastructure-as-CodeCommunicationTeam collaboration

Required

At least 6 years of experience of backend development experience, SQL and API development

At least 2 year of experience with each of the following: Python, Python microservice frameworks, dataframe-based frameworks (pandas/PySpark), CICD development, container orchestration platforms (EKS/ECS/podman/etc.), IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/etc.)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team