Southgeeks
Senior Full-stack Engineer (backend-leaning)
2mo ago
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer role focused on backend development for a health tech startup's AI platform for medical device innovation.
About the company
- At South Geeks, we connect top LATAM engineering talent with innovative companies building impactful products worldwide. We focus on long-term partnerships, strong technical environments, and creating spaces where professionals can grow, contribute, and thrive.
- We strive to create an inspiring and growth-oriented environment where everyone feels valued. Our people come from diverse backgrounds across Latin America and partner with world-class companies to solve meaningful engineering problems. We invest in our team through continuous learning, coaching, and a culture that rewards curiosity, ownership, and collaboration.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer (backend-leaning) with 6 to 10 years of experience who can translate conceptual product ideas into solid, shippable code. You will work directly with the Product team on daily scoping and end-of-day mini demos and collaborate with the fractional CTO on architectural decisions. Roughly 70% of your time will go to new feature development and enhancements and the remaining 30% to resolving customer-reported bugs. You will have real influence on technical decisions and are expected to bring informed opinions on trade-offs.
- 6 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong Python and JavaScript/TypeScript
- React on the frontend
- Neo4j (graph database) experience
- GraphQL
- Production-level AI/LLM integration experience (beyond basic prompting)
- Experience working with or building MCP servers
- 100% Eastern Time overlap during business hours
- Excellent written and spoken English, strong communication skills
- Build new features and enhance existing ones across backend and frontend
- Collaborate daily with the product team to scope work and demo progress end-of-day
- Contribute to architectural and design decisions, with sign-off from leadership on major calls
- Resolve customer-reported bugs tracked in GitHub
- Help evolve the AI/LLM and knowledge-graph capabilities powering the platform
Nice to have
- FastAPI or similar Python web frameworks
- Experience in regulated domains (medical device, pharma, health-tech, life sciences)
- Familiarity with vector databases, RAG, or agentic AI patterns
- Exposure to customer onboarding or document/workflow automation products
Conditions
- Long-term projects
- 100% remote work
- Payment in USD
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Work-from-home & training reimbursement
- English lessons
- Technical training
- Career coaching
Other
- Hi there :)
- Thanks for checking in to find out about our open position. We´ll provide as much information as possible, but please feel free to reach us if you have further questions. We´ll be happy to see your application, even if there are skills you don't quite master!
- Our client is a health tech startup redefining medical device innovation with an AI platform that automates research, documentation, and workflows end-to-end, helping deliver lifesaving devices sooner. The product combines customer onboarding flows, a Neo4j knowledge graph and an AI/LLM-powered recommendation and scoring system, with applicability in regulated environments such as medical device, pharma, and parametric documentation.