Senior Backend Developer

Palta Ltd; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare technology startup seeks a backend engineer to develop robust production web services primarily in Go. Candidates with Python or similar programming experience and a passion for healthcare innovation are encouraged. The company offers a rare opportunity to work closely with experienced founders and a small, talented team, significantly impacting how people improve their skin health. Attractive employee stock ownership plans are also available during this early stage of growth.

Benefits

Employee stock ownership plan

Opportunity to work with experienced founders

Impactful work improving people's lives

Qualifications

• Experience building production web services in Go is a strong plus.
• Strong motivation to learn and transition to Go if experienced in another language.
• Experience with web frameworks like Flask or Django is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure to support interactive user traffic.
• Develop machine learning models and aggregate data sources.
• Ensure monitoring, tests, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud experiences.

Skills

Building production web services

Experience in high compute-consuming systems

Familiarity with AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure

Passion for healthcare and product launch

Tools

Golang

Python

GitLab

Job description

Lovi is an all-in-one AI cosmetologist that helps people evaluate their skin conditions, select the appropriate skincare program, and follow it for the best results.

We’ve developed the iOS version of our app. Here are some key features:

• Personalized skin evaluations through a unique 12D skin analysis.

• Customized skincare programs based on cosmetic scanner and ingredient analysis, all scientifically backed.

• Daily personalized plan with specific actions to support the skincare journey.

• Ongoing guidance through the Lovi AI Assistant and a user-friendly tracker for monitoring progress and developing healthy habits.

Overview

We need to continue developing our backend services to improve the reliability, security, and effectiveness of our infrastructure. At the same time, we need to implement a large variety of new user scenarios. Last but not least: we need to improve our analysis algorithms and data processing pipelines.

Responsibilities

• For a backend engineer, we’re happy to propose a wide range of opportunities from building infrastructure to research.

• The backend should meet various needs, including serving the interactive user traffic, inferencing machine learning models, running regular processes to aggregate various data sources and provide the endpoints for the results, storing and processing the logs data, and ensuring a good monitoring system, tests, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud experience.

What we expect

• Experience building production web services in Go is a strong plus. Alternatively, solid experience with Python or other imperative programming languages, combined with strong motivation to learn and transition to Go, is also welcome.

• Experience in developing high compute-consuming systems.

• Experience utilizing web frameworks and libraries (e.g. Gin, gorilla/mux, Flask, Django, etc) is a strong plus.

• Familiarity with major system design concepts: load balancing, caching, databases, etc.

• Familiarity with modern cloud systems: AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure, or similar

• Passion about healthcare, helping people, and launching awesome products.

Our current stack

• AWS: Fargate, S3, DynamoDB

• Golang, Python

• GitLab

Why work with us

• A rare opportunity to launch a new big thing from scratch, not just continue some predecessors\' work.

• The co-founders have vast experience and accomplishments in the industry. Therefore, working with such people closely is a great way to learn; moreover, their references might become a game-changer for any further career prospects.

• An opportunity to significantly change many people\'s lives by helping them achieve the appearance they want for themselves, richly increasing their life quality. We’re aiming at the whole worldwide market.

• Joining the startup in the very early stage means an opportunity to take the maximum out of the employee stock ownership plan. Join us while we\'re still small and benefit from our growth!

• Come be part of a fast-growing startup that is hungry for innovation and join our incredibly talented PM team to learn from and partner with!

Our current team

The current team is pretty small: we have less than thirty team members. Most of our fellow colleagues are engineers: ML, backend, iOS, and web developers. The product team also includes designers, product and content managers as well as UX researcher. We collaborate with many scientists to make sure our app is in line with the existing body of research.

Please join us in our adventure!