🚀 Senior Backend Engineer - AI/Healthcare
Join a fast-growing healthcare AI startup transforming clinical workflows.
About Basalt
At Basalt, we're revolutionizing healthcare workflows with next-generation AI-powered Medical Assistants (MAs) that support clinical administrative workflows. Our mission is to turn Medical Assistants from data hunters into high-value clinical partners through cutting-edge LLM applications.
We’re already piloting with a top-10 healthcare system (and investor) and are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to shape our technical future. While healthcare and LLM experience are valuable, we prioritize strong backend engineers who thrive on solving complex problems.
🌟 Why Join Basalt?
- Be a Founding Engineer: Join at the ground level of a well-funded healthcare AI startup.
- Shape the Future of Healthcare AI: Work on impactful AI solutions that directly improve healthcare workflows.
- Cutting-Edge Technology: Collaborate with AI, MLOps, and modern engineering systems.
- Growth & Learning: Grow your skills in healthcare tech, AI, and machine learning (ML).
- Compensation & Equity: Competitive salary and equity package.
- Meaningful Impact: Help improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
📌 Core Responsibilities
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:
- Architect Scalable Infrastructure: Drive technical architecture decisions and build scalable systems.
- Build & Lead Development: Lead platform development and partner with internal and external engineering teams.
- API & Service Design: Design and implement secure, scalable APIs that integrate with healthcare systems.
- Data Processing Solutions: Architect robust solutions for processing and analyzing clinical documentation.
- Mentor & Grow the Team: Help build and mentor a growing engineering team as we scale.
🛠️ Required Skills & Experience
We’re looking for a passionate problem-solver with the following experience:
- 8+ years of backend development with Python or TypeScript/Node.js.
- Cloud & Distributed Systems: Expertise in modern cloud architecture and distributed systems.
- API Design & Microservices: Deep understanding of scalable API design and microservices architecture.
- Passion for Learning: A hunger to explore new technologies, especially in healthcare and AI.
🚀 What You'll Learn & Work With
You’ll have the opportunity to expand your skills with:
- AI & LLM Systems: LLM frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex) and vector databases (Chroma, Pinecone).
- Healthcare Tech: Deep exposure to healthcare systems, EMR integration, and HIPAA compliance.
- Google Cloud Platform: GCP ecosystem, including Vertex AI for ML operations.
- Semantic Search & Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Modern MLOps and AI system production.
💻 Tech Stack
We use modern, industry-leading tools and technologies, including:
- Backend: Python/FastAPI or TypeScript/Node.js
- AI/ML: Vertex AI, LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage
- Data: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB
- Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes
🎉 Why You Should Join Our Team
We're reimagining the patient experience while increasing operational efficiency in healthcare — a true win-win. Everyone recognizes the challenges of healthcare workflows. Here’s your chance to be part of the solution.
If you're a talented backend engineer who wants to build impactful, scalable systems while growing your skills in healthcare tech and AI, we’d love to hear from you!
📢 Apply Today and become part of a team that’s passionate about learning, teaching, and transforming healthcare together.
