Backend Engineer

About Us:

Qventus is a real-time decision making platform for hospital operations. Our mission is to simplify how healthcare operates, so that hospitals and caregivers can focus on delivering the best possible care to patients. We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to create products that help nurses, doctors, and hospital staff anticipate issues and make operational decisions proactively.

About the Role:

Are you the next Qventoid? We’re looking for a dynamic, innovative Backend Engineer to design and implement highly scalable systems and algorithms, driving data-driven decisions across our organization. Join a team of talented engineers revolutionizing healthcare operations by applying modern technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.

As a Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in redefining healthcare operations by developing highly scalable systems and algorithms, contributing to our mission of simplifying how healthcare operates

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to bring your phenomenal technical chops to ship high-quality and secure code.
• Design and implement backend systems that are reliable enough to delight care teams in a healthcare setting.
• Stay up-to-date on modern security design principles, threats & preventive implementations.
• Learn new technologies and work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Work collaboratively and learn together with the rest of the team members - a rising tide raises all boats.

What We’re Looking For:

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience of 2+ years.
• 2+ years of professional experience as a software engineer working with Python
• Experience with Amazon Web Services or other cloud services

It’s a Plus if You Have…

• Strongly desired:  Experience with Django, Django Rest Framework, MySQL or Kubernetes
• Strongly desired:  Fullstack Experience (especially Typescript and React)
• A strong interest in ChatGPT, LLMs, and other GenAI technologies
• Have worked in healthcare tech, especially Smart on FHIR, CDS and other EHR integrations.
• Prior experience working for an enterprise SaaS company is a plus!

Qventus is on a mission to take modern technologies and principles that have been proven in other industries — artificial intelligence, machine learning, behavioral science, and data science — and apply them to simplify healthcare operations. At Qventus, you will have the opportunity to work with an exceptional, mission-driven team, and the ability to directly impact the lives of patients. We’re inspired to work with healthcare leaders on our founding vision and unlock world-class medicine through world-class operations. 

We believe that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to improving healthcare and society, and that’s why we’re building a company that leads the way. We hold ourselves accountable to using fair hiring processes that mitigate the negative impacts of unconscious bias. We also work to ensure that people from underrepresented groups play meaningful roles on both sides of the interview table. We are an equal opportunity employer and give all qualified applicants consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. 

Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our candidate privacy notice which can be found here: https://qventus.com/ccpa-privacy-notice/

Candidates must be located in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Paraguay, El Salvador, Costa Rica, or Uruguay.

Employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of our pre-employment background investigation and drug test.