Staff Software Engineer Backend
RapidAIJob Summary
RapidAI is a global leader in using AI to combat life-threatening vascular and neurovascular conditions. They empower physicians to make faster decisions for better patient outcomes through their Rapid platform, which transforms care coordination and offers unparalleled patient visibility. As a Staff Software Engineer Backend at RapidAI, you will design complex systems and architectures, ensure scalability and performance, and develop impactful technical solutions. You will work with a talented team, collaborate cross-functionally, and communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. With a strong focus on innovation and quality, RapidAI is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. The company offers flexible remote work options, $4,000/year travel stipends, and equity in a fast-growing company.
Position Duties, and Responsibilities:
- Design complex systems and architectures for their area of specialization. Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of those systems.
- Plan technical projects and milestone deliverables in alignment with product managers. Coordinate engineers and their tasks and monitor overall progress.
- Design and build impactful technical solutions and own them through the entire development lifecycle.
- Develop complex features and components. Review code and designs developed by other engineers. Debug difficult issues across the codebase.
- Research the latest technologies and propose ways to integrate them to improve the product. Come up with solutions for technical challenges and improvements.
- Evaluate technical options and tradeoffs and make sound technical decisions aligned with product needs in their specialized area.
- Perform rigorous code reviews and ensure coding best practices, standards and patterns are followed by teams.
- Debug and troubleshoot complex production issues and assist teams in resolution.
- Clearly communicate complex technical concepts and designs to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborate cross functionally across product, program management and other teams.
- Create documentation, present training materials, conduct tech talks to share knowledge with broader engineering org.
Education, Experience, and Qualification:
- Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience in software development and demonstrated engineering leadership
- 5+ years of experience in backend development
- 2+ years in using Typescript and Amazon AWS
- High level of skill in at least one general-purpose backend language and one frontend language, but willingness to work with other languages if required
- High level of distributed system design skill
- Creating platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable
- Writing high-quality code that is modular, functional, and testable
- Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture
- Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment
- Solid analytical and reasoning skills for design, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
- Great communication skills with technical and non-technical teams
