Lead Software Engineer - Backend

Lead Software Engineer – Backend

At Alive Cor, we imagine a healthier world powered by access to personalized intelligent information. We’re on a mission to be the world’s heart health partner by enabling access to quality heart care for everyone. Alive Cor has pioneered over-the-counter medical ECG devices and continues to lead the way in empowering consumers and patients to take care of their heart. Using our FDA-cleared medical-grade hardware and software, millions of users have taken more than 300 million heart health measurements and counting.

Alive Cor is the most clinically validated personal ECG technology, trusted and recommended by leading cardiology practices in the United States and around the world. We value research, working in collaboration with hospitals and research groups, and supporting internal research in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

• Design and implement solutions in collaboration with product and engineering leadership
• Hands‑on software engineer working in the following environment:
  Go, Java, Ruby on Rails, Postgre
  
  SQL, AWS, TDD/BDD with RSpec
• Track record with integrating the latest AI technologies (e.g. LLMs) to greatly enhance end‑to‑end customer experience
• Responsible for developing industry‑leading applications transforming the healthcare industry and consumers use
• Work with our mobile and front‑end teams to build new functionality in our consumer and clinician‑facing applications
• Create and maintain tools used by internal teams for customer service, monitoring, and R&D
• Maintain and continuously improve our backend infrastructure to remedy technical limitations before they become an issue
• Actively participate in development along with team members for as much as 50% of your time, creating modules & systems that can then be treated as a working reflection of best practices
• Drive code reviews, design reviews, and architecture discussions
• Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption while measuring yourself on the impact you are able to create

• Excellent problem‑solving skills for complex & large‑scale problems
• Technical breadth – exposure to a wide variety of problem spaces, technologies
• Very strong system‑design skills with the ability to craft clean interfaces and operate at the right levels of abstraction
• Excellent coding skills with the ability to improve coding standards across large codebases
• Deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi‑tier architectures. Awareness of pitfalls & use cases for a large variety of solutions
• Deep understanding & experience of high‑performance web‑scale & real‑time response systems with experience & expertise in a variety of large‑scale persistent systems including large databases
• Exposure to complete product development cycles – from inception to production to scaling up, supporting new requirements, re‑architectures. The architects should have seen it all and ideally in multiple cycles. Should have been part of scalable product development cycles with either large data handling or large transaction processing exposure for 5+ years
• Hands‑on software engineer with 15+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience working with Go and Java
• Strong knowledge of AWS & Kubernetes
• Knowledge or interest in learning Ruby on Rails would be an added advantage
• Experience implementing Service Oriented Architecture or Microservices
• Product instincts, work with our product and design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
• Experience with build process automation and CI/CD
• Ability to work independently on projects and communicate with cross‑functional teams to deliver products on time

The base salary range for this position is $160,000 - $205,000. Individual salaries are determined through a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. Base salary does not include other forms of total compensation such as bonus compensation and other benefits.

The Perks – Alive Cor offers full‑time employees benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid personal days, volunteer time off, 401(k) savings with employer match, bonus opportunities, life insurance, company sponsored life insurance & our Kardia Complete program.

Alive Cor is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.