Senior Backend Engineer (Medtech/AI)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Medtech/AI): Building and optimizing high-load backend services for a medical software platform with an accent on database design, API integrations, and system reliability. Focus on designing robust architectures, implementing efficient queries, and ensuring compliance in a regulated industry.

Location: Hybrid (Vienna, Austria) or Remote (EU)

Salary: €90,000+ annually

Company

hirify.global is saving and improving lives by making medical software safe and reliable, empowering software teams to create secure and compliant products.

What you will do

• Design and evolve PostgreSQL schemas, write efficient queries, and ensure database performance and maintainability.
• Build new integrations between the hirify.global platform and other systems, APIs, and workflows.
• Improve latency, throughput, and fault tolerance across the backend stack.
• Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to standards around migrations, documentation, and testing.
• Participate in monitoring, debugging, incident response, and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with Product, Client Operations, Compliance, Security, and other engineers to deliver features.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with strong backend development skills.
• Strong skills in TypeScript.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of backend performance and maintainability, including refactoring and technical debt management.
• Comfortable collaborating across teams and participating in technical discussions and design reviews.
• Comfortable working in English and collaborating across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with Prisma and Next.js.
• Experience with GraphQL (urql or Apollo).
• Familiarity with AWS services (S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk).
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes in production or near-production environments.
• Strong habits around testing (Jest, Cucumber, Playwright).
• Experience working in regulated industries like healthcare or finance.
• Experience with Kotlin and Spring.
• An interest in mentoring and helping others grow.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a talented, driven team passionate about making a difference in the world.
• Competitive salary and equity, including performance-based bonus and stock options.
• A yearly company retreat.
• For the Vienna office: free coffee, lunch, snacks, drinks, and a Wiener Linien public transport ticket.
• Opportunity to learn and grow as part of a global team.
• Generous PTO for full-time employees.