Founding Software Engineer, Backend

ALIGNMT AI provides comprehensive AI governance and risk management solutions that safeguard artificial intelligence across its entire lifecycle. The platform automates compliance workflows, continuous risk monitoring, and transparency reporting, transforming fragmented processes into a unified, scalable system. Certified by the Coalition for Healthcare AI and trusted by leading healthcare institutions, ALIGNMT AI helps organizations deploy AI responsibly while maintaining operational efficiency and patient safety.

Learn more or request a demo . A career at ALIGNMT AI means being at the forefront of building infrastructure products to ensure the fairness and accuracy of future AI-assisted medicine.

As the Senior Backend Engineer for Platforms at ALIGNMT AI, you will own part of the organization's overall data platform and infrastructure implementation and the integration experience for our customers and partners. To achieve this, you will need to have a deep understanding of platform engineering, federated evaluation and, most importantly, enterprise data governance.

Minimum Qualifications

BA/BS degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar technical field

4+ years of experience of extensive experience in software engineering with a proven track record of shipping successful projects

Mastery of backend languages or databases such as Golang, PostgresSQL

Mastery of testing strategies and frameworks for backend testing

Extensive experience building and maintaining large scale distributed systems.

Excellent coding, testing and system design skills.

Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Deep knowledge of privacy-preserving federated evaluation, micro service architectures, and enterprise security standards (ISO 27001, SOC-2, HITRUST)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in data warehouse such as Big Query, Redshift

Experience in developing and deploying containerized and serverless applications on GCPor AWS

Experience in CI/CD systems and processes

Experience building integrations with electronic health record systems such as Epic and Cerner

A solid understanding of the healthcare industry, including familiarity with current trends and challenges in health tech

Responsibilities

Build highly scalable and robust systems to abstract away privacy, legal and risk mitigation complexity from product owners

Lead cross-functional efforts to improve the quality, reliability, and performance of federated evaluation features

Helping position ALIGNMT A as an industry leader in AI Privacy, Risk Mitigation and Data Governance best practices.

Mentor engineers and working closely with the EM to nurture team health.

What You’ll Get

A fast-paced and collaborative environment

Learning and development allowance

Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement

Medical and dental insurance coverage

Up to $25K reimbursement for fertility, adoption, and parental planning services