Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Promaton, a rapidly growing medical AI company, as a Senior Backend Engineer on the Production and Reliability Engineering (PRE) team. You will play a key role in designing and improving the quality, scalability, and accessibility of our API. Collaborate with web and ML product teams to provide robust solutions. This role offers significant responsibility and autonomy, working with a remote team using a modern tech stack. Promaton provides excellent work/life balance, remote work options, and opportunities for professional development. We offer a strong engineering culture, attractive salary, and benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of proven experience in software development, with a focus on backend and infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience with TypeScript and NodeJS
• Experience writing RESTful APIs with Express or any equivalent web framework
• Strong experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions is a plus)
• Strong experience with containerisation (we use Docker)
• Great English communication skills
• Team player, proactive, well-structured, and organized—fearlessly embracing growth with sharp critical thinking
• Taking ownership and relying on delivering things on time and with high quality
• Based in Europe, in a time zone between UTC-1 and UTC+3 (-2/+2 hours Amsterdam time) and willing to join our company events 4 times a year

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on API design, reduce complexity, and add features. Embrace best practices
• Propose enhancements to code and documentation. Own solutions and leave things better than you found them
• Engage with engineers, nurture partnerships, and build trusted solutions
• Safeguard user data in our regulated AI medical field

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Web Development in Python (We use FastAPI)
• Kubernetes, along with any major Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Experience in cloud infrastructure and provisioning it with Infra-as-code
• Experience in the medical (AI) or similar regulated fields

Benefits

• Inclusive environment, we value and celebrate diversity
• Excellent work/life balance. Freedom to work from home or anywhere you like
• Loads of responsibility and autonomy (we stay far away from micromanagement) and a chance to make a real impact
• Dedicated time for hackathons and growth to explore new ideas of your own. Every quarter, we have a hackathon week where you can work on anything you like to expand your skill set!
• Real training budget for books, conferences, or anything else you need to grow
• Attractive salary package and excellent employment terms
• Work with the latest technology at the forefront of a rapidly developing field in medical imaging AI
• We have a strong engineering culture: think of CI/CD, experiment management, well-defined coding guidelines, and more
• Awesome yearly company retreat and quarterly team events
• Top-notch gear and even bigger servers to play with
• Promaton is funded for many years to come, meaning you can have the impact you only get at a startup but with the job security of an established company
• For international engineers based in the NL (already relocated to the Netherlands), we are able to offer visa sponsorship