Principal Engineer Backend

Bangalore, India
Engineering /
Full Time /
Hybrid

Company Overview:
RapidAI is the global leader in using AI to combat life-threatening vascular and neurovascular conditions. RapidAI is empowering physicians to make faster decisions for better patient outcomes, leading the next evolution of clinical decision-making and patient workflow. Based on intelligence gained from over 10 million scans in more than 2,000 hospitals in over 60 countries, the Rapid® platform transforms care coordination, offering care teams a level of patient visibility never before possible. RapidAI – where AI meets patient care.

Our mobile app is in constant use by clinical teams to coordinate the treatment of patients in hospitals across the globe. We process data for 1/2 of all stroke cases in the United States and a large number of stroke cases in other countries of the world, including Switzerland, Japan, Australia and Brazil.

At RapidAI, we believe in leveraging cutting-edge technology and research to impact millions of lives. Our software products enhance doctors’ capabilities across hospitals worldwide to respond to and make the best decisions for patients quickly. We are looking for a high-energy employee who is excited to be at the forefront medical device software development. The successful candidate will meet the criteria defined below, and in doing so, will help deliver the best patient care to patients all around the world.

Position Duties And Responsibilities

    • Design complex, scalable software systems and architectures. Evaluate existing architectures and propose improvements. Ensure technical decisions align with product roadmap.
    • Plan technical projects and milestone deliverables in alignment with product managers. Coordinate engineers and their tasks and monitor overall progress.
    • Design and build impactful technical solutions and own them through the entire development lifecycle.
    • Develop complex features and components. Review code and designs developed by other engineers. Debug difficult issues across the codebase.
    • Research the latest technologies and propose ways to integrate them to improve the product. Come up with solutions for technical challenges and improvements.
    • Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers. Establish engineering best practices and standards.
    • Clearly communicate complex technical concepts and designs to both technical and non-technical audiences. Collaborate cross functionally across product, program management and other teams.
    • Establish quality standards, design review checklists, code review processes etc. Monitor system performance and ensure quality goals are met. Drive continuous improvement.

Education, Experience, And Qualification

    • Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent
    • 15+ years of experience in software development and demonstrated engineering leadership
    • 8+ years of experience in backend development
    • 3+ years in using Typescript and Amazon AWS
    • High level of skill in at least one general-purpose backend language and one frontend language, but willingness to work with other languages if required
    • High level of distributed system design skill
    • Creating platforms, reusable libraries, and utilities wherever applicable
    • Writing high-quality code that is modular, functional, and testable
    • Troubleshoot issues effectively in a distributed architecture
    • Communicate, collaborate and work effectively in a global environment
    • Solid analytical and reasoning skills for design, troubleshooting and root cause analysis  
    • Great communication skills with technical and non-technical teams 

Bonus Skill

    • iOS or Android development experience; Swift, Kotlin and good understanding of Native mobile
    • Experience in a regulated software environment e.g. medical device, aerospace, defense, automotive
    • Experience with DICOM, HL7 or other medical data formats/protocols