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Leads technical vision and roadmap for Freenome’s cloud platform, designs and operates scalable Kubernetes-based systems, and drives cross-team initiatives. The role troubleshoots complex platform issues, improves reliability and cloud-cost efficiency, supports AI adoption, and builds secure infrastructure for AI and data workflows. It also mentors engineers, partners with scientific and technical teams, and remains hands-on with architecture, coding, design reviews, and operations.

Build and launch unconventional, engineering-driven growth experiments for Bota by identifying ideal customers, creating prototypes, integrations, automations, open-source projects, and distribution mechanisms. Work directly with the CEO to take ideas from hypothesis through launch, measurement, iteration, and scale. The role focuses on rapid experimentation, software and AI leverage, measurable customer acquisition, and turning successful experiments into repeatable growth channels.

Build and own Bota’s full-stack AI hardware platform, including backend services, APIs, data models, frontend interfaces, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, testing, security, and observability. The founding engineer will make end-to-end technical decisions, collaborate with product, design, and customers, mentor future engineers, improve system performance and reliability, and help shape engineering culture and long-term technology strategy.

Develop and maintain payer customer implementations for a healthcare authorization platform, with approximately 80% backend and 20% frontend development. Responsibilities include Java application development, RESTful APIs, SQL queries and schema updates, debugging, unit testing, code reviews, CI/CD, AWS cloud usage, technical documentation, requirements analysis, and on-call support for critical healthcare applications.

Set technical direction for enterprise platform services supporting licensing, entitlements, account administration, onboarding, provisioning, notifications, and partner workflows. Design secure, scalable multi-tenant architectures and lead cross-team technical initiatives from ambiguity to implementation. Improve reliability through observability, testing, safe deployments, incident learning, and operational documentation. Contribute hands-on through design and code reviews, mentor senior engineers, and influence engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Lead the technical direction of backend systems for a cybersecurity assessment platform. Design and build scalable services, APIs, data models, and event-driven workflows; make architecture and reliability decisions; write production code; improve observability and safe deployment practices; lead cross-team initiatives; mentor engineers; contribute to hiring; and translate customer and product goals into technical strategy.

Build and operate backend services and APIs for secure, multi-tenant administration workflows, including user access, account hierarchies, settings, roles, access controls, and audit logs. Own features from design through production support, applying strong data modeling, authorization, testing, observability, and reliability practices. Collaborate with Product and engineering teams, investigate production issues, document systems, and mentor teammates.

Develops, configures, tests, documents, deploys, and supports business applications for clinical trial study configurations. Collaborates with project management, solution, delivery, and software engineering teams to interpret requirements, resolve defects, maintain databases, and deliver work within quality targets and SLAs. Performs site support, change control, source control, peer reviews, and production deployments while following SDLC practices, SOPs, GCP, 21 CFR Part 11, and other regulatory requirements.

Own backend payment, wallet, ledger, reconciliation, fraud, and risk services handling real-money transactions. Design double-entry accounting systems, integrate payment processors and KYC/AML vendors, ensure exact-once posting and auditability, and support finance reporting through Snowflake and dbt. Partner with Finance, Compliance, and Trust & Safety while participating in on-call coverage for high-volume sports events.

Build infrastructure for AI-driven software development, including cloud coding environments, autonomous coding agents, SRE integrations, and reusable agent platforms. Own developer environments, agent integrations, security guardrails, observability, evaluation, and feedback loops. The role requires deep infrastructure experience across AWS, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and TypeScript/Node.js, plus hands-on use and orchestration of AI coding agents.

Lead architecture and implement large cross-cutting initiatives on a SaaS grantmaking platform. Produce high-quality full‑stack code (Rails/React/Node), mentor engineers, drive SDLC best practices, and champion AI-assisted development while collaborating with product, infra, and QA teams.

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment of secure software and automation for Federal Student Aid. Establishes DevSecOps, CI/CD, secure SDLC, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, configuration management, and release practices. Coordinates multidisciplinary technical teams, integrates applications with APIs, cloud platforms, databases, and cybersecurity tools, drives vulnerability remediation, maintains technical documentation, and mentors engineering staff.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and maintains APIs, interfaces, data exchanges, connectors, and integration services. Analyzes system dependencies and data models; implements secure transformation, validation, orchestration, and event-driven integrations. Collaborates with security and data engineers on authentication, encryption, schemas, data quality, lineage, and operational requirements. Creates automated tests, technical documentation, runbooks, and release materials while troubleshooting complex cross-system data flows.

Develops workflow applications, automation, scripts, services, integrations, and testing solutions that replace manual processes with traceable enterprise workflows. Responsibilities include process analysis, evidence collection automation, task routing, approvals, policy enforcement, API and data integrations, documentation, code reviews, demonstrations, defect correction, and continuous improvement. The role is remote, contingent on contract award, and supports a federal customer.

Deploy and customize Palantir Foundry and AIP solutions for enterprise clients. Responsibilities include conducting client workshops, building data pipelines and operational workflows with Python and TypeScript, solving complex technical problems, training end users, documenting solutions, and supporting project delivery. The role requires strong data engineering, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, along with recent Palantir experience and approximately 5% travel in Canada and the United States.

Develop and support data services, REST APIs, integrations, and scalable cloud-based applications. Responsibilities include modularizing application services, implementing backlog features, configuring client data services, validating data and software integrity, and supporting integration projects from scoping through deployment. The role collaborates closely with consulting teams, clients, and internal stakeholders while applying Ruby on Rails, Java, MySQL, and modern web technologies.