# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Beacon Biosignals](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/beacon-biosignals)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $170k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Postgres, Kafka, julia, Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GraphQL, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, RabbitMQ, pulsar, amazon kinesis
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Designs and scales backend data infrastructure for clinical and scientific applications, including PostgreSQL models, Kafka event pipelines, GraphQL APIs, and warehouse snapshot pipelines. Requires 5+ years of backend development experience, strong SQL and PostgreSQL expertise, and proficiency in Julia or Python.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Translate requirements from product managers, scientific and clinical stakeholders, internal stakeholders, and development and support teams into integrations, services, and solutions for scaling the data platform.
- Implement features with high standards for data integrity, sound design, and maintainability.
- Draft RFCs for complex feature discovery and technical design, incorporating feedback and aligning on implementation decisions.
- Ensure correctness when data moves between systems, including completeness, idempotency, and predictable behavior under partial failure.
- Improve operational robustness and ease of use through documentation, tools, and dashboards.
- Design and scale backend systems for data infrastructure, including PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, and GraphQL APIs.
- Lead the design and integration of services and components for data and event processing.
- Own pipelines that deliver dataset snapshots into the data warehouse.
- Collaborate with platform and application teams to implement APIs for clinical studies and digital health products.

## Requirements
- **5+ years** of backend development experience, including at least 2 years focused on data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications.
- Strong proficiency in **SQL** and production experience with **PostgreSQL** as an application database.
- Experience writing and tuning queries by hand and reasoning about schema design, indexes, and query plans.
- Hands-on experience with data streaming and event processing using **Kafka** or an equivalent such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, Amazon Kinesis, or another cloud-based equivalent.
- Proficiency in **Julia** or **Python**.
- Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments.
- Familiarity with **Kubernetes** and infrastructure-as-code tools such as **Terraform** and/or **Helm**.
- Experience with **GraphQL** and **TypeScript/JavaScript**, including **Node.js**.
- Collaborative mindset and strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-directed approach and experience thriving in hybrid or fully remote teams.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with Julia.
- Willingness to learn Julia.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: **$150,000–$170,000**.
- Total compensation includes equity, paid time off, and other benefits.

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