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Andiamo

Backend Engineer - AI precision medicine company

Andiamo, New York, New York, us, 10261

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About The Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale services that power customer-facing products. You’ll work across APIs, data pipelines, storage, and infrastructure to deliver reliable, secure, and high-performance systems. This role blends hands-on coding with system design and a strong focus on operational excellence. What You’ll Do

Design and implement backend services and APIs (REST and/or gRPC) used in production. Model data and build robust storage layers across relational and NoSQL databases. Build messaging and streaming integrations (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) to support asynchronous workflows. Own service reliability: monitoring, alerting, logging, and on-call participation for critical systems. Improve performance and scalability through profiling, caching, and query optimization. Ship code through CI/CD, automate testing, and participate in code reviews and design docs. Collaborate with product, frontend, data, and infra engineers to deliver end-to-end features. Tech You May Use

Languages: Python, Go, Java, or similar Storage: Postgres/MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, or a document store Messaging/Streams: Kafka, RabbitMQ Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP/Azure, Terraform APIs & Auth: REST/gRPC, OAuth/OIDC Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK What We’re Looking For

Strong backend development skills with proficiency in Python (or comparable language). Solid understanding of databases, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals. Experience building production APIs and services with strong reliability and security practices. Comfort with containers, cloud services, and infrastructure-as-code. Clear communication, ownership mindset, and ability to work collaboratively. NICE TO HAVE

Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming pipelines. Background in high-throughput or low-latency systems. Data modeling for analytics or ML workloads. Security and compliance best practices for production services. Why Join

Meaningful ownership of core services with real user impact. Modern stack, strong engineering culture, and opportunities to influence architecture. Support for growth: mentoring, learning budget, and challenging problems at scale. About Andiamo

Andiamo is a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm specializing in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies. For over 20 years, we’ve maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Amazon, Bloomberg, Palantir, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms. Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com Seniority level

Entry level Employment type

Full-time Job function

Engineering and Information Technology Industries Staffing and Recruiting

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