Senior Backend Engineer (Python+AI)

You'll take over day-to-day backend ownership from our founding engineer, who is shifting to product. The core of the job is building: new API servers and data models across our platform — some already in flight, more planned — on Python and Azure. You'll also maintain and extend our production multi-agent system (Python/LangGraph fronting a healthcare data warehouse): it's largely built, and needs incremental improvement, monitoring, and steady hands. You'll carry the backend through a major go-live this fall, working directly with the founders and our external web-app development partner.
What you'll do
Design and build new API services and data models — greenfield development is the bulk of the role, picking up in-flight work and starting planned services from scratch.
Maintain and extend the production LangGraph multi-agent backend: incremental capabilities, tool integrations, monitoring, and reliability.
Design and build multi-tenant access control: per-organization data isolation, credential architecture, JWT/OIDC auth flows (Auth0).
Run the backend's Azure footprint day to day: managed identities, Key Vault, CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion (dev → UAT → prod).
Handle healthcare data responsibly — PHI-aware design is part of the job.
Work async with a founder-led team and an external dev shop; write decisions down.
What we're looking for
4+ years of backend engineering with deep, current Python.
A track record of designing and shipping API services and data models from scratch — not just extending existing systems.
You've worked with LLM agent systems in production — LangGraph preferred, or comparable frameworks with real users behind them.
Production Azure experience: identity, secrets, app hosting, pipelines.
Strong SQL (SQL Server and/or Postgres) and multi-tenant data-access design.
Auth fundamentals: OAuth2/OIDC, JWT.
Self-directed — you'll often be the only engineer on the problem.
Bonus: US healthcare data (claims, CMS programs), HIPAA experience, Terraform.

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