- Act as a self-starter who drives execution independently, taking ownership and initiative with minimal day-to-day direction.
- Lead high-impact backend and platform initiatives that support large-scale healthcare data processing and critical customer-facing capabilities.
- Own architectural decisions for backend services and distributed systems, ensuring solutions are scalable, reliable, and aligned with H1's long-term technical vision.
- Design and build highly scalable backend services, APIs, and processing systems capable of supporting hundreds of terabytes of healthcare data.
- Partner closely with Product, Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Engineering leadership to translate ambiguous business needs into technical roadmaps and production-ready solutions.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to reduce technical bottlenecks, improve platform capabilities, and accelerate delivery.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional planning discussions, helping shape technical strategy while influencing without formal authority.
- Mentor engineers through technical leadership, architectural guidance, design reviews, and thoughtful engineering practices.
You:
- Have a proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from concept through production.
- Bring deep experience designing scalable backend platforms, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architectures, or infrastructure platforms.
- Enjoy solving messy technical problems and making pragmatic architectural tradeoffs.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, helping shape direction across teams.
- Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful design, high-quality code, and strong technical leadership.
- Invest in mentoring teammates and improving engineering practices across the organization.
- Strong experience designing scalable, reliable backend architectures and making technical decisions around system design, performance, and maintainability.
- Strong programming experience in Python or another modern backend language (Java, Go, Scala, C++, etc.) with the ability to quickly become productive in Python.
- Experience building systems that process large volumes of data or high-throughput distributed workloads.
- Experience working in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred) and deploying distributed systems in production.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives, influence architectural direction, and partner effectively across engineering and product organizations.
- Experience with Spark, Kafka, Hudi, Airflow, or other distributed data technologies is a plus—but we're equally interested in backend engineers with strong distributed systems experience who are excited to deepen their expertise in modern data engineering.
H1 OFFERS
- Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off
- Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays
- Retirement options
- Health & charitable donation stipends
- Impactful Business Resource Groups
- Flexible work hours & the opportunity to work from anywhere
- The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe
H1 is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex (including pregnancy), age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
H1 is committed to working with and providing access and reasonable accommodation to applicants with mental and/or physical disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to your recruiter once you've begun the interview process. All requests for accommodations are treated discreetly and confidentially, as practical and permitted by law.
Skills Required
- 8+ years building scalable backend software, distributed systems, or platform infrastructure in production environments.
- Strong experience designing scalable, reliable backend architectures and making technical decisions around system design, performance, and maintainability.
- Strong programming experience in Python or another modern backend language (Java, Go, Scala, C++, etc.) with ability to quickly become productive in Python.
- Experience building systems that process large volumes of data or high-throughput distributed workloads.
- Experience working in cloud-native environments and deploying distributed systems in production.
- AWS experience.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives, influence architectural direction, and partner across engineering and product organizations.
- Experience with Spark, Kafka, Hudi, Airflow, or other distributed data technologies.
What We Do
Access to medicine and healthcare is a basic human right. At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is also a basic human right, one that will be more important in the 21st century than ever before. Our commitment to creating a healthier future for everyone drives us to build and maintain the most current, accurate, and comprehensive healthcare knowledge base available, as well as the tools and intelligence to extract unparalleled insights to carry global healthcare forward.
Why Work With Us
We’re a team of people building products that help solve difficult problems in healthcare. We work through complex challenges every day, navigating ambiguity, wrestling with uncertainty, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible–all while caring deeply about one another and the people we seek to help.
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