Senior Backend AI Engineer
K Health
Who we are:
Founded in 2016, K Health's mission is to deliver accessible, high-quality healthcare at scale. As a leading clinical AI company in primary care, K Health has developed a suite of clinical AI agents that enhance provider efficiency and improve patient outcomes across both online and in-person primary care settings. K Health's primary care platform engages patients through a personalized investigation, informed by relevant medical history from the EMR, to provide primary care providers with comprehensive insights and automated workflows at the point of care. Coupled with patient insights, K Health’s technology empowers providers to make individualized diagnoses and treatment decisions and deliver high-quality medicine at scale.
As a venture-backed startup trusted with nearly $400 million in funding, and a $900 million valuation as of July 2024, K Health is well-positioned for sustained future growth. We continue to partner with a growing roster of major health systems (Cedars-Sinai, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hartford HealthCare), enhancing accessibility and quality of care by pairing people with technology.
K Health is a modern healthcare company that is reinventing the patient, provider, and AI cooperative for a singular, digitally unified, high-quality care delivery mission. Our cross-functional approach integrates deep expertise in clinical care, operations, data science, product, consumer marketing, and engineering into one team that is transforming the experience of patients, providers, and the overall care delivery system. Join us in our mission to deliver smarter, simpler healthcare!
About the role:
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Backend Engineer with deep expertise in Python and a strong understanding of the AI models and agents domain. While this role does not involve building models from scratch, it requires close collaboration with our AI and Data Science teams to build scalable, production-ready infrastructure and APIs that power intelligent systems.
As a core member of our AI Engineering team, you will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including data scientists, ML engineers, and product managers, to design and deliver backend systems that serve AI-driven workflows. This role is ideal for someone passionate about backend engineering in the AI space, with a strong architectural mindset and a background in health tech.
What you'll be doing:
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the AI Engineering team, you will:
- Build and maintain reliable, scalable backend services to support AI agent execution and orchestration.
- Collaborate with the Data Science and Machine Learning teams to productionize AI features and model-serving pipelines.
- Design APIs, background workers, and event-driven systems that interface with AI inference engines and agent runtimes.
- Write clean, testable, and well-documented Python code using best practices.
- Take ownership of system design and backend architecture decisions for AI-powered products.
- Work with other engineers to optimize performance, scalability, and fault tolerance of distributed backend systems.
- Participate in code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to elevate the team’s technical capabilities.
- Support monitoring, observability, and incident response related to backend infrastructure.
What we're looking for:
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience with a strong focus on Python (FastAPI, Django, or similar frameworks).
- Solid understanding of AI systems architecture and experience working in environments involving AI agents, LLMs, or inference pipelines.
- Proven experience in building and scaling backend APIs, microservices, and background jobs.
- Strong experience with both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, Redis) databases, including schema design, query optimization, and data modeling.
- Hands-on experience with message brokers (e.g., PubSub, Redis Streams, RabbitMQ) and distributed systems.
We offer competitive compensation packages based on industry benchmarks for function, level, and geographic location. Offer amounts are determined by multiple factors such as a candidate's experience and expertise.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider applicants for employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, age, citizenship, military or veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws. We’re deeply committed to building teams as diverse as the patients we serve and strive to cultivate an environment where everyone can bring their most authentic self to work. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our users.
We are committed to maintaining the integrity of our hiring process and ensuring a safe environment for all candidates. All communication for job offers from K Health will come from email addresses ending in @khealth.com. K Health will never ask you to provide financial information about yourself during the recruitment process. We will never use personal email accounts or other domains for official correspondence. Our official job postings are only listed on our official website and reputable job boards. Be cautious of job offers from sources other than these platforms.