Backend and Infrastructure Engineer

Backend and Infrastructure Engineer at HEAL Security - a world-class cybersecurity startup focused on safeguarding healthcare organizations and their patients from cyber threats (remote)

Join HEAL Security, the world-class cybersecurity startup that's setting new industry standards to safeguard healthcare organizations and their patients from cyber threats. With key funding and support from prominent players in the U.S. medical industry, we’re developing ultramodern Cognitive Cyber Intelligence technology and services to protect sensitive data and critical systems. We’re looking for passionate individuals who share our values of ethics, empathy, passion, and trust to work together as a team and positively impact the healthcare industry. If you’re ready to take on a meaningful challenge and help protect those who care for us in our most vulnerable moments, join our mission today. 

Position Summary:

As our Backend Dev / Infrastructure Engineer at Heal Security, will contribute to planning, designing, developing, and maintaining customer-facing solutions. As a key member of our highly collaborative Product Development team, you will have the opportunity to build a secure backend environment with a high-performance, API-driven, customer-facing portal solution. Work hands-on building our world-class healthcare cybersecurity product with our secure infrastructure. Leveraging GCP & GKE, Kubernetes, and various scalable GCP services such as PubSub and Firestore, you will support and be able to contribute to the deployment and development of projects written in TypeScript, Python, and Clojure. Strong product development and full-stack software engineering skills are a requirement. Our primary warehouse is built on a graph database, with various services contributing to the data visible to the user – search, analytics, and so on. 

You will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with developers to design and develop new product features, such as writing GraphQL mutations and query resolvers, and crafting database queries. 
• Integrate LLM-powered AI tools into workflows to enhance automation and insights across the platform.
• Write reusable code and implement comprehensive unit and end-to-end testing while also contributing to software architecture design. 
• Benefit from professional development opportunities to stay at the forefront of a rapidly evolving industry. 

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement high-quality, scalable web applications across the server-side stack (back-end and infrastructure).
• Design and implement IaC solutions to automate infrastructure provisioning and management. 
• Monitor and optimize cloud performance and cost. 
• Implement and maintain security best practices. 
• Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code.
• Participate in code reviews and share knowledge with teammates. 

Experience / Qualifications:

• Must-haves: Python, Clojure, Datomic, GraphQL.
• Strong understanding of back-end development principles and languages (e.g., Python, Node.js, Java, Clojure).
• Experience with relational and graph databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Datomic, Neo4j).
• Expertise in building infrastructure with IaC tools such as Terraform/Pulumi.
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficient in building REST or GraphQL APIs with automated unit testing.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and Neo4j, including writing aggregate queries and performing outer joins.
• Familiarity with Pub/Sub systems and data processing frameworks like Apache Beam.
• Experience with microservices architecture and cloud computing.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills.
• Familiarity with agile development processes and test-driven development (TDD).
• Strong communication skills and experience working in a remote-first environment.
• Have worked in and enjoyed a remote-first environment, and understand the skills needed to be successful in one. 
• A team-oriented mindset, valuing both winning and losing as a team while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
• Willingness and ability to travel for internal gatherings and team-building events on an (at most) quarterly basis.

Additional skills:

• Experience with other cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure). 
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

Working hours:

You'll need to work from 10 am to 7 pm UK time daily (GMT+0 time zone - you may check the time difference via the link).

What we offer:

— Full-time job (8 working hours per day, Monday-Friday). Please note that we won’t consider candidates planning to combine several jobs, we’re looking for a full commitment and dedication.

— Fully remote work. You may be located in almost any country or city, just need a laptop to work from, a great internet connection, and an opportunity to adjust your working hours with the schedule of the team.

— Professional growth within the company - this is not project work, we consider only the candidates looking for a 2+ years commitment.

— Salary will be discussed during the interview. Paid in USD.

Application deadline: ASAP

Please note that the later you apply - the more intensive your selection process will be, for example, you will have less time for the test assignment, etc.

1. Fill in the application form - attach your CV & links to your portfolio on GitHub/etc.;

2. Have a Zoom interview with Hire5 Recruiter;

3. Have a Zoom interview with the founder & the project manager at Heal Security;

4. Have a Zoom interview with the Heal Security team;

5. Get hired!