Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Technical Manager

Location: Bangalore

Employment Type: Full time

Role SummaryAt AliveCor, we imagine a healthier world powered by access to personalized intelligent information. The Lead Software Engineer, Backend will be an integral member of our engineering team, responsible for developing, scaling, and maintaining high-availability microservices that process millions of critical heart health measurements. This role directly contributes to AliveCors mission of transforming cardiological care by building industry-leading, FDA-cleared software that connects consumers and clinicians with life-saving data.

Core Responsibilities

• The Lead Software Engineer on the backend team will be working in the following environments: Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub/Gitlab.
• Responsible for developing industry-leading applications transforming the healthcare industry and consumers use.
• Work with our mobile and front-end teams to build new functionality in our consumer and clinician-facing applications.
• Create and maintain tools used by internal teams for customer service, monitoring, and R&D.
• Maintain and continuously improve our backend infrastructure in order to remedy technical limitations before they become an issue.

AI Enhanced Responsibilities

AI Use Case: Familiarity with Gen-AI tools

Tools / Platforms: Gemini, Claude, Copilot

Expected Impact Reduce manual code writing to 10% and improve delivery turn around time by 70-80%.

Required Qualifications

• At least 10 years of relevant software development experience
• Lead-level software engineer ready to take ownership of several backend components.
• Experience building and designing scalable backend systems on AWS.
• Proficient working with Go
• Experience implementing Service Oriented Architecture or micro-services
• Good intuition for weighing trade-offs
• Product instincts, work with our product and design teams to understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate and launch frequently
• Eagerness and willingness to learn new technologies
• Experience with build process automation and CI/CD
• Engineers who can raise the skill level of their teammates.
• Ability to work independently on projects and communicate with cross functional teams to deliver products on time.
• Results-oriented approach to work; willingness to do whatever it takes to help the team.
• Strong problem solving and creative skills and ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions based on accurate and timely analysis.

AI Competency Expectations

Competency/ Level Expected

AI Tool ProficiencyIntermediate

Prompt EngineeringWorking knowledge

AI Output EvaluationReview AI outputs

AI Ethics & Data PrivacyUnderstands responsible AI use and company data policies

Why join AliveCor? At AliveCor, we imagine a healthier world powered by access to personalized intelligent information. We’re on a mission to be the worlds heart health partner by enabling access to quality heart care for everyone. AliveCor has pioneered over-the-counter medical ECG devices and continues to lead the way in empowering consumers and patients to take care of their heart. Using our FDA-cleared medical-grade hardware and software, millions of users have taken more than 200 million heart health measurements and counting.  Our vibrant team of people are attracted to AliveCor because they want to build something meaningful – and AliveCor delivers: every day, customers tell us that we’ve saved lives. Join us in our mission!

Perks and benefits:We strive to make your life outside work as smooth as possible while you’re at work, and we offer a long list of benefits to make that happen.

• Hybrid working model
• Flexible and generous vacation policy
• Maternity / Paternity Leave/ Adoption/ Commissioning leave
• Generous Medical Benefits Above market family floater medical insurance coverage including both parents or in law parents
• Metro connectivity from office
• A supportive, collaborative group of people who understand that success depends on the team