Senior Backend Engineer
8 days ago
West Palm Beach
Senior Backend Engineer AI Healthtech West Palm Beach $140,000-$180,000 We’re partnering with an AI-powered wellness and mental health startup redefining how people connect with themselves through emotionally intelligent conversation. Built on proprietary conversational AI technology, it functions as a virtual therapist capable of real-time, multilingual voice interaction, helping users improve their emotional well-being. The Role We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and optimize the systems powering myHoma’s real-time AI-driven experiences. You’ll work closely with the CTO and product team to develop backend services that support live conversational AI, audio streaming, transcription, and response generation. What You’ll Do • Build and maintain backend services for real-time audio streaming, transcription, and AI orchestration, • Design scalable, secure backend architecture and APIs (REST / WebSocket), • Develop and optimize microservices for low-latency, high-reliability interactions, • Collaborate with AI, product, and frontend teams to deliver seamless user experiences, • Implement monitoring, logging, and observability to ensure system stability, • Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code reviews You Have • Strong backend development experience with Python and modern frameworks, • Experience building real-time systems using WebSockets or similar streaming technologies, • Strong understanding of REST API design, microservices, and distributed architectures, • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred) and containerized deployments, • Knowledge of data storage patterns, message queues, and event-driven architectures, • Interest in AI systems, real-time interaction, or conversational technologies Bonus • Experience with audio streaming, speech-to-text systems, or LLM integrations, • Experience contributing to systems for consumer-facing apps with high engagement, • Familiarity with Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service, or similar tools The Benefits As a Senior Backend Engineer you can expect a base of $140,000 to $180,000 as well as health, dental, vision, 401k and more Keywords Python, Backend Engineer, REST API, WebSocket, Microservices, Distributed Architecture, Azure, Real-Time Systems, AI, Docker