Software Engineer, Backend and Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

As a Software Engineer, Backend and Infrastructure, you will build the mission-critical backend powering our medical AI platform used by healthcare providers worldwide. You will architect and scale core systems, including service reliability and data platforms with autonomy to shape performance, security, and infrastructure design for sensitive medical data. We hire exceptional builders, not in narrow lanes. Engineers work across products and projects, owning work wherever they can create the most impact.

🏢 About OpenEvidence

OpenEvidence is the most widely used medical AI platform in the world. In just over a year, our usage has grown to >65% of US clinicians via product-led word of mouth adoption. We are a $12B company with a 30-person engineering team from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. We believe world-changing products come from a small group of exceptional, autonomous builders, organized along focused objectives and empowered to take individual ownership and run fast. We are growing our team to seize a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to define the default platform for medical AI.

🎯 The Role

This full-time role on our engineering team is in-person 5 days a week in Miami.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build the mission-critical backend powering our medical AI platform
• Architect and scale core systems, including service reliability and data platforms
• Shape performance, security, and infrastructure design for sensitive medical data
• Work across products and projects, owning work wherever you can create the most impact

📌 Required Qualifications

• Brilliant builder with a track record of creating something from nothing
• Smart, ambitious, scrappy, autonomous, precise, motivated, hard-working, and low-ego
• Experience with backend and infrastructure development
• Ability to work in an autonomous and fast-paced environment

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with medical AI platforms
• Experience with sensitive medical data handling
• Experience with scaling systems to handle large workloads

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Not specified