Role: Senior Backend Engineer

Function: Engineering

Location: India

Type: Full-time

Compensation: Not specified

Industry: AI, Medical SaaS

About Company

A medical AI SaaS company building software for the U.S. dental market.

The platform helps dental teams run smoother, grow revenue, and improve patient experience. It replaces scattered tools and manual work with one integrated platform trusted by thousands of practices.

The company brings analytics, scheduling, communications, payments, and marketing automation into a single system. It automates busywork like reminders and digital intake, and gives teams real-time visibility into what's driving production and retention.

The company is mission-driven and execution-oriented with high ownership, tight collaboration, and product work with clear, measurable impact.

Position Overview

You'll design and build scalable backend services that power medical AI SaaS trusted by thousands of dental practices daily. You'll own meaningful technical problems end-to-end while working with a tight, cross-functional team. This role reports to the Engineering India Head and offers clear ownership of code quality, CI/CD, and data persistence across PostgreSQL and complementary NoSQL systems.

Role & Responsibilities

• Provide technical expertise by contributing to architecture decisions and project decomposition
• Build and evolve backend services and APIs in Django/Python with focus on performance and reliability
• Own the data layer by designing efficient PostgreSQL schemas and managing migrations via SQLAlchemy/Alembic
• Implement robust CI/CD pipelines with automated build/test/deploy and safe rollback mechanisms
• Optimize runtime performance using Redis caching and Nginx reverse proxying for high throughput
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and operations teams to translate requirements into technical plans
• Conduct thorough code reviews and maintain high standards for code quality and testing

Must Have Criteria

• 3-5 years of software development experience with deep expertise in Python and Django
• Experience building systems handling 10K+ API requests per second with high availability
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge including schema design, indexing, and performance tuning
• Hands-on experience with SQLAlchemy and Alembic for model definitions and schema migrations
• CI/CD pipeline design experience with Git branching strategies and release automation
• Practical experience with Redis caching strategies and Nginx reverse proxy configuration
• Working knowledge of NoSQL paradigms and when to apply them alongside relational databases

Nice to Have

• Experience with payment gateway integrations (Adyen, Stripe)
• Cloud-native delivery experience with Docker/Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code
• Observability practices including metrics, logs, and tracing for performance monitoring
• Bachelor's/Master's degree from IITs/IIMs or equivalent top-tier institutions

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build medical AI SaaS impacting thousands of dental practices
• High ownership environment with clear, measurable impact on healthcare outcomes
• Tight cross-functional collaboration with product and operations teams
• Fast-paced execution-oriented culture with autonomy and growth opportunities
• Work on cutting-edge AI technology in the under-digitized healthcare vertical