Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Job Description

Helfie.ai :  Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About Helfie :

Helfie is on a mission to redefine global preventative healthcare. We’re pioneering an entirely new operating system for human health – empowering billions with instant, affordable health checks and AI-driven insights. Our vision is to build trust, drive organic engagement, and make preventative healthcare a reality for all 8 billion of us.

Join us as we revolutionise the healthcare landscape and make early detection and prevention accessible to everyone.

About the role :

We are looking for a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and scale

the core backend systems that power Helfie.ai, an AI-driven preventive healthcare

platform.

You will play a key role in architecting resilient services, integrating AI pipelines, and

ensuring the scalability and reliability of the health operating system we are building.

Key Responsibilities :

• Backend Development :   Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable APIs and services using Python.
• System Architecture :   Drive both High-Level (HLD) and Low-Level (LLD) designs to ensure modular, secure, and high-performance backend components.
• Service Ownership :   Take ownership of key backend modules from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.AI and Data Integration : Collaborate closely with AI / ML teams to build and optimize inference pipelines, data preprocessing, and model-serving APIs.
• Database and Performance :   Optimize database performance across relational and NoSQL systems and implement effective caching strategies using Redis or similar tools.
• Scalability and Reliability :   Build distributed, fault-tolerant systems with strong observability, ensuring high uptime and consistent performance across environments.
• Testing and Quality :   Write and maintain automated unit, integration, and load tests to ensure reliability and quality at scale.
• Security and Compliance :   Apply secure coding practices, data privacy principles, and implement robust authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration :   Work with product, mobile, compliance, and DevOps teams to deliver seamless and high-quality releases.
• Code Quality and Mentorship :   Participate in code reviews, contribute to technical standards, and mentor peers to promote engineering excellence.

Skills & Experience :

This role requires someone who :

Benefits :

Equal opportunity statement

Helfie.ai is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage / civil partnership, pregnancy or sexual orientation. We encourage applications from a wide range of candidates and selection for roles will be based on individual merit alone.

Office Hours and Work Location

This role is a remote position based in India.

The role’s minimum availability times is  9am to 5pm .

The role is a full-time role and is required to work the hours necessary to achieve its purpose in collaboration with a broad, geographically and time availability complex team. It should be expected to require at times varied work hours to collaborate with international groups, organisations, and colleagues at times suitable for them. This will include weekend work, as well as early and late hours.

Work outside of normal office hours can be taken in lieu.

Role Type, Conflicts of Interest and Probationary Period