[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Pearl

Role Description

A seed-stage healthcare technology company is building the data infrastructure behind faster, clearer healthcare coverage decisions, and is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own and scale that infrastructure end-to-end.

• The team is small and moves fast, aggregating and normalizing over 100,000 medical policies from 100+ payers into structured, searchable intelligence using AI-driven systems.
• The founder is currently the sole engineer, so this hire acts as technical lead — reviewing code and setting architectural direction for a small group of part-time and offshore engineers, without managing people directly.
• Day-to-day, the role centers on:
  • Building and scaling web scraper infrastructure.
  • Using LLMs to structure unstructured payer policy text.
  • Standing up CI/CD and reliability improvements across the data pipeline.
• Success means the founder is no longer the bottleneck — the data infrastructure runs reliably and accurately and scales without constant direction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in backend-focused (not generalist full-stack) roles.
• 3+ years of professional Python as a primary backend language.
• SQL proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQL Server), including complex queries and schema design.
• Hands-on AWS experience (Azure or GCP transferable) deploying and managing production services, plus CI/CD pipeline ownership.
• Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines or ETL systems that ingest from inconsistent, messy, or unstructured external sources.
• Demonstrated end-to-end system or architecture ownership at an early-stage startup or small engineering team (2–15 engineers).
• English at C1+ CEFR level for technical communication on video calls with the founder and engineering team.

Requirements

• Web scraping infrastructure experience (Scrapy, Playwright, or similar frameworks).
• Production LLM/AI experience, specifically building evaluation or testing harnesses (beyond API consumption).
• RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline experience.
• Healthcare payer data, medical coding (CPT, ICD-10), or prior authorization workflow experience.
• Familiarity with Terraform, FastAPI, or Snowflake.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: Based on experience and skills.
• Remote Work: Fully remote—work from anywhere.
• Team Incentives: Recognition for maintaining 100% CRM hygiene and on-time reporting.
• Generous PTO: In accordance with company policy.
• Health Coverage for PH-based talents: HMO coverage after 3 months for full-time employees.
• Direct Mentorship: Guidance from international industry experts.
• Learning & Development: Ongoing access to resources for professional growth.
• Global Networking: Connect with professionals worldwide.