Senior Backend Engineer; Python

About the Role & What You’ll Be Doing

Alaffia Health is a healthcare AI startup revolutionizing medical billing and data automation. Our AI-driven platform leverages state-of-the-art generative AI and machine learning technologies to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and compliance in medical billing and auditing. As we scale, we are seeking a Senior Python Backend Engineer to build cutting‑edge AI products, drive innovation, and shape the future of healthcare automation.

You will have the opportunity to work with the latest cutting‑edge AI technologies while implementing features that directly impact healthcare organizations. You will be tasked to build the GenAI framework for the engineering team to build the AI agent on and lead the effort to scale our GenAI applications. In this role, you'll be building the future of healthcare automation while tackling challenging problems in web development, system design, and cloud infrastructure.

Code Fluency

• Write code that captures the essential nature of the solution and is appropriately flexible, reusable, efficient, and adaptable to changing requirements.
• Provide high quality code review feedback and adopt approaches to foster effective and collaborative code review culture.
• Strong awareness of the technologies used by the team and the ecosystem around these technologies and able to introduce new ideas to solve business and technical problems.
• Responsible for successful delivery of their projects, including planning, risk management, design, development, testing, rollout, and maintenance.
• Identify ways to simplify application code/infrastructure and improve developer efficiency as measured by cycle time, ramp-up time, or other similar measurements.
• Experience with enterprise codebases and the ability to onboard into an established product.
• Preemptively identify and resolve technical risks before they jeopardize the project. Resolve cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project.
• Avoid re-inventing the wheel by leveraging other Alaffia Health solutions or off-the-shelf solutions with the possible trade-off in mind.

Software Design

• Responsible for designing the software or systems in the owned area and ensuring that they meet their design objectives.
• Give quality feedback on designs written by other members of the team, asking probing, insightful questions that solidify choices and surface erroneous assumption.
• Effectively and quickly debug cross-module issues, and may intuit where bugs might lie due to deep knowledge of the libraries, platforms, and systems that the software relies on.

Architecture Design

• Create coherent designs with multiple components interacting across API or system boundaries; bugs do not creep in at the boundaries between components due to mismatches in expectations of what is technically feasible.
• Capable of rolling out a component or major feature (and deprecating an existing system or feature) reliably—including appropriate monitoring, paging, etc—are in place, and that failure domains are understood and characterized appropriately, avoid introducing toil and future maintenance work by proactively avoiding scaling issues and providing adequate documentation before large‑scale rollout. For early‑stage products, roll out with an eye toward achieving learning goals untainted by poor quality and know when to make appropriate tradeoffs for “failing fast