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About the role

  • API Architect designing SafelyYou’s healthcare data APIs, microservices, and streaming infrastructure. Owning external data platforms while advancing AI-enabled engineering and governance.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable APIs, microservices, and backend platform infrastructure using Python and AWS
  • Own the architecture, continuous improvement, and lifecycle of the External Data API
  • Serve as the technical bridge between SafelyYou’s internal data systems and customers
  • Support and evolve data governance tooling, including registries and data dictionaries such as the Event Registry
  • Establish patterns and best practices for schema governance, versioning, documentation, and compatibility
  • Support and evolve internal APIs used to provide data-system information to applications built by SafelyYou engineers
  • Provide documentation, implementation examples, and support while enforcing best practices and driving adoption
  • Architect and implement streaming data pipelines and transition from batch processing to real-time streaming architectures
  • Draft and maintain Architecture Decision Records, API specifications, and system documentation
  • Improve developer workflow and experience by optimizing CI/CD pipelines and repository documentation
  • Introduce and leverage AI agent workflows to enhance engineering efficiency and track industry trends
  • Develop AI skills that third parties may use when interacting with SafelyYou APIs and data products
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical strategy with business goals and support product launches and cross-team initiatives
  • Mentor team members, share technical expertise, and participate in on-call rotations
  • Hands-on implementation and support of the systems designed

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional experience in software, backend, or platform engineering, preferably in a startup environment
  • Deep expertise in designing, building, operating, and scaling RESTful APIs, web services, and distributed backend systems
  • Experience designing and implementing API gateways and management systems such as Kong Hybrid, Apigee, Gravitee, or similar systems
  • Strong opinions around authentication, routing, policy enforcement, observability, and deployment of API gateway solutions
  • Strong programming proficiency in Python, focused on clean, scalable, and maintainable backend code
  • Proven experience with streaming data architecture and technologies such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, or Spark Streaming
  • Experience making architectural and cost trade-offs between batch streaming and synchronous processing
  • Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
  • Light DevOps practices, including containerization and deployment tools such as Kubernetes and Helm charts
  • Strong technical communication skills and a track record of writing ADRs, API specifications, and comprehensive architectural documentation
  • Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and improving developer environments
  • Hands-on experience with modern AI-assisted and agentic development workflows, including coding agents, MCP, AI pair programming, and LLM-powered research
  • Advanced proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform
  • Experience designing data models and architectures across ETL/ELT, warehouses, lakehouses, event-driven systems, and backend APIs
  • Strong foundations in data quality, reliability, governance, and scalability
  • Experience with electronic health records (EHR), healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR, and associated data privacy regulations such as HIPAA
  • Experience with remote work and distributed, async-first engineering teams
  • Candidates must be located in the United States or Canada

Benefits

  • A mission-driven company culture
  • Fully remote
  • Competitive salary & benefits
  • Fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • 401k Program
  • Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends
  • Non-accrual PTO
  • Growth Potential
  • Company Retreats
  • Medical & Family/Parental Leave

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSCloudETLKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonSparkTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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