Senior Backend Engineer-Python​/Java​/Rust- Series C HealthTech

Our client is a Series C Silicon Valley Health Tech with teams in San Francisco and London. We are hiring a Backend Engineer to work on the backbone of a platform that combines real-time data, AI insights
, and personalized care pathways to transform healthcare delivery.

This role is fully remote within the UK without work visa sponsorship.

• Design and implement scalable backend services that ingest, transform, and persist diverse health data
• Build APIs and data pipelines for real-time and batch processing, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance
  .
• Integrate with external systems and protocols including FHIR APIs, BLE-based devices, Apple Health Kit, and Google Fit
  .
• Ensure backend services are designed for high availability, reliability
  , and low latency
  , especially for real-time clinical decision support.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of PHI/PII data.
• Work cross-functionally with product, clinical, and AI teams to align backend capabilities with user-facing experiences and clinical workflows.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and data quality monitoring.

• 5+ years of backend development experience in Python
• Experience with healthcare data types and sources: EHRs (FHIR/HL7), wearables (PPG, ECG, accelerometer), vitals, surveys.
• Strong understanding of data security
  , encryption
  , access control
  , and handling regulated healthcare data (HIPAA, SOC
  2).
• Proficiency in building and maintaining RESTful APIs, message queues (Kafka, Pub/Sub, Rabbit
  
  MQ), and cloud-native services (GCP, AWS).
• Experience with databases (Postgre
  
  SQL, Big Query, Mongo
  
  DB and Timescale
  
  DB) and data modeling for time-series or medical data.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture
  , microservices
  , and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Health Care Provider
• Medical Practices