Remote Senior Backend Engineer for Data and Analytics Company

🚨 To Apply: Mention "Lena Albino" when asked: If you were referred by a Pearl Talent employee or one of our affiliate partners (influencers, community connectors, etc.), please share their full name (first and last name). 👩🏻‍💻A seed-stage healthcare technology company is building the data infrastructure behind faster, clearer healthcare coverage decisions, and is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own and scale that infrastructure end-to-end. 🧑🏻‍💻The team is small and moves fast, aggregating and normalizing over 100,000 medical policies from 100+ payers into structured, searchable intelligence using AI-driven systems. The founder is currently the sole engineer, so this hire acts as technical lead — reviewing code and setting architectural direction for a small group of part-time and offshore engineers, without managing people directly. Day-to-day, the role centers on building and scaling web scraper infrastructure, using LLMs to structure unstructured payer policy text, and standing up CI/CD and reliability improvements across the data pipeline. Success means the founder is no longer the bottleneck — the data infrastructure runs reliably and accurately and scales without constant direction. 🚨 To Apply: Mention "Lena Albino" when asked: If you were referred by a Pearl Talent employee or one of our affiliate partners (influencers, community connectors, etc.), please share their full name (first and last name).

🫵🏻Must-Have ✅5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in backend-focused (not generalist full-stack) roles ✅3+ years of professional Python as a primary backend language ✅SQL proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server), including complex queries and schema design ✅Hands-on AWS experience (Azure or GCP transferable) deploying and managing production services, plus CI/CD pipeline ownership ✅Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines or ETL systems that ingest from inconsistent, messy, or unstructured external sources ✅Demonstrated end-to-end system or architecture ownership at an early-stage startup or small engineering team (2–15 engineers) ✅English at C1+ CEFR level for technical communication on video calls with the founder and engineering team Nice-to-Have -Web scraping infrastructure experience (Scrapy, Playwright, or similar frameworks) -Production LLM/AI experience, specifically building evaluation or testing harnesses (beyond API consumption) -RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline experience -Healthcare payer data, medical coding (CPT, ICD-10), or prior authorization workflow experience -Familiarity with Terraform, FastAPI, or Snowflake