Backend Engineer
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PearlHealthTech, genomics
Work From Anywhere in LATAM, EST | Flexible hours with US overlapContractSenior
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Job Details
- Languages
- English at C1+ CEFR level for daily work with the frontend lead and firm leadership
- Experience
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience
- Required Skills
- AWSNode.jsPostgreSQLOAuthTypeScriptRESTful APIs
Requirements
- Have 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Have built backend systems from scratch at an early-stage startup.
- Have production experience with Node.js and TypeScript building RESTful APIs.
- Have built data pipelines that process large, inconsistent data inputs, with reproducibility and failure recovery.
- Have experience with PostgreSQL schema design and data modeling.
- Have AWS deployment and infrastructure experience.
- Have implemented authentication and authorization systems, such as AWS Cognito, Auth0, or OAuth.
- Have English proficiency at C1+ CEFR level for daily work with the frontend lead and firm leadership.
- Bioinformatics or genomic data processing experience is nice to have.
- AWS CDK or CloudFormation, Fastify, healthcare or regulated-industry experience, and Next.js familiarity are nice to have.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain RESTful APIs using Node.js, TypeScript, and Fastify.
- Define API contracts and data shapes with the frontend engineer before implementation.
- Implement authentication and authorization using AWS Cognito or an equivalent.
- Build backend services that handle large-scale data requests securely and reliably.
- Develop reproducible, recoverable pipelines for large, inconsistent genomic data inputs.
- Write parsing and transformation logic for third-party vendor outputs.
- Harden pipelines against failures so they recover without manual intervention.
- Optimize pipeline performance as data volume grows.
- Design PostgreSQL schemas and data models for genomic and health data.
- Architect AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and collaborate on deployment workflows.
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