Back-end Architect Specialist

Transforming Healthcare Through Innovative Solutions

Heidi is a pioneering organization on a mission to revolutionize the delivery of world-class care. Our vision is to halve the time it takes to achieve this goal by 2050, enabling every clinician to practice with AI systems that free them from administrative burdens and enhance the quality and accessibility of care for patients worldwide.

Our current suite of tools modernizes documentation, and we're working towards equipping every healthcare organization with AI assistants that simplify clinical and non-clinical work. We boast a talented team of accomplished leaders and brilliant polymaths who thrive in high-growth environments and are driven to make a significant impact.

We've achieved impressive milestones in just six months, surpassing what our competitors have accomplished in four years. With an upcoming global go-to-market strategy focusing on the US and UK, we're seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to join us in shaping the backend architecture of our AI Medical Scribe Platform.

The Role

As the go-to technical leader, you'll design and build scalable systems while leading cross-functional collaboration between engineering, product, and other teams. This ensures our backend systems provide a seamless experience for users while setting the technical vision for our product. You'll thrive in high-growth environments, tackle complex technical challenges, and work closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.

You'll be responsible for:

• Leading the design and development of scalable, high-performance backend systems
• Architecting and implementing critical features for our platform, ensuring scalability and reliability
• Driving cross-functional collaboration with product, frontend, and AI teams to deliver cohesive solutions
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team
• Driving decisions on architecture, tooling, and frameworks, balancing innovation with maintainability
• Solving complex technical problems, from optimizing performance to designing fault-tolerant systems
• Autonomously delivering beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability
• Implementing and optimizing data storage solutions

What We're Looking For

We're seeking a highly skilled professional with:

• 10+ years of backend development experience
• A strong sense of ownership and problem-solving skills
• Proven technical leadership experience in high-growth environments, scaling backend systems to meet growing demand
• Strong back-end development experience in Python is beneficial but not required
• Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management
• Experience building and managing message queue systems at scale
• Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs
• Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance
• Experience with observability tools and practices, including monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing in large-scale production environments
• Data and application security knowledge and skills
• Experience in integrating with third-party systems
• Competence with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies
• Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure, and performant systems

We believe in creating unconventional solutions to difficult problems and building them fast. We want you to set impossible goals and make them happen. You'll be surrounded by a world-class team of engineers, medicos, and designers who share our values:

• We will stop at nothing to improve patient care across the world.
• We design user experiences for joy and ship them fast.
• We make decisions in a flat hierarchy that prioritizes truth over rank.
• We provide resources for people to succeed and give them the freedom to do so.

Why You'll Flourish Working with Us

We offer a flexible hybrid working environment with three days in the office. Additional paid day off for your birthday and wellness days. Discounted corporate gym memberships. A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum. Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team. Become an owner with shares in the company if Heidi wins. The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia's leading healthtech startups. Help us reimagine primary care and change the face of healthcare in Australia and then around the world.