Backend Engineer

Thank you for considering the Backend Engineer position at Reveal Health Tech. We are an early-stage IT startup based in the US and India, focused on leveraging technology to deliver transformative healthcare solutions. 

About the Applied AI Lab 

The Applied AI Lab is an internal R&D team at Reveal dedicated to identifying high-impact problems in healthcare, life sciences, and adjacent verticals—and transforming those insights into repeatable AI solutions. 

We operate as a nimble product studio within the company: researching emerging technologies, rapidly prototyping AI and ML-powered tools, and building foundational infrastructure to support long-term product plays. Our output ranges from sandbox-ready MVPs to reusable components and SaaS-aligned platforms. Our team is multi-disciplinary—engineering, design, research, and business—and we work closely with client-facing and go-to-market teams to validate our ideas in the real world. 

About the Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Applied AI Lab and play a critical role in building robust, scalable, and flexible backend systems that power intelligent products and agentic workflows. 

You’ll be responsible for developing APIs, integrating ML components, and helping stand up infrastructure that connects user interfaces with AI/ML logic and data services. You'll work closely with ML engineers, frontend developers, and designers to enable end-to-end functionality, rapid iteration, and long-term reliability. 

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats, thrives in a fast-moving environment, and wants to build backend systems that support real product innovation.

• Design and implement scalable APIs and service layers to support agentic AI workflows and prototypes 

• Work closely with ML engineers to integrate models into backend infrastructure and orchestrate inference flows 

• Build data access layers and connect to databases, vector stores, and external APIs 

• Collaborate with frontend engineers to define data contracts and enable seamless UI integration 

• Develop infrastructure for task orchestration, agent state tracking, and output management 

• Contribute to DevOps efforts (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, deployment scripts, logging/monitoring) 

• Optimize backend systems for performance, modularity, and reuse across Lab projects 

• Support rapid prototyping and contribute to turning MVPs into stable, reusable assets 

• Participate in roadmap planning, design sessions, and prioritization of Lab initiatives 

Desired Qualifications  

Please note that while you do not need to be an expert in every area, being familiar with most of the following is important. We are looking for someone who can effectively integrate everything, with team support to fill any gaps.   

• 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer 

Programming & Backend Skills 

• Terraform: Proficient in writing, testing, and managing Terraform modules 

• Primary Language: Python (3.x), with solid understanding of object-oriented design 

• Secondary (Nice to Have): Go, Node.js, or Java 

• API Development: Experience with RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL; FastAPI or Flask preferred, microservices, and service-oriented architecture 

• Testing: Pytest, unit/integration testing best practices 

• CI/CD Pipelines: Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar 

• Experienced with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) 

• Compute: Lambda, ECS/Fargate, EC2 

• Storage: S3, EFS 

• Networking: VPC, Route53, API Gateway 

• Databases: RDS (PostgreSQL/MySQL), DynamoDB 

• Monitoring: CloudWatch, X-Ray 

• IAM: Policies, roles, permissions model 

Data & Event Processing (Optional but valuable) 
Experience with: 

• Message Brokers: SQS, Kafka 

• Data Pipelines / ETL: AWS Step Functions, Airflow (especially on MWAA), Glue 

• File Parsing: JSON, XML, CSV, Parquet, etc. 

Tooling & Environment 

• Version Control: Git (GitHub or GitLab workflows) 

• Secrets Management: AWS Secrets Manager or SSM Parameter Store 

• Dev Tools: Docker Compose, Make, VS Code 

How you will enrich us? 

• Energetic and enthusiastic 

• Autonomous and self-motivated 

• Growth mindset 

• Embraces challenges 

• Building new things gets your blood pumping 

• Curiosity and deep interest in the world 

• Challenges the status quo constructively 

What do you get in return? 

• Be part of a high-impact team shaping the future of our IP and product innovation strategy 

• Work with cutting-edge technologies in a focused but flexible lab environment 

• Help define how applied AI can solve real-world problems in complex, high-stakes domains 

• Grow with a small, mission-aligned team with executive support and long-term vision 

• Industry best compensation and benefits 

Next Steps 

• Send us your updated CV - if you can mention how you have enriched your previous organisation in a cover letter, that would be great! 

• If we find your profile suitable, we will have our Talent personnel to reach out to you to understand your profile/interests and how best we can align mutually. 

• Finally, you would have a chat with our Leadership to understand more about us and see if this is the right next career move!