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About the Role

We’re hiring a Backend Engineer to help mature and scale the data platform underlying Savant’s clinical data products. You’ll help design and implement the systems that move large, complex datasets through ingestion, processing, quality control, and delivery. This is a backend engineering role with a strong data engineering and infrastructure orientation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production pipelines for ingesting, transforming, validating, and delivering healthcare datasets
• Develop backend services and APIs that support Savant’s clinical data products
• Build reliable Dagster workflows with strong patterns for partitioning, retries, idempotency, backfills, and observability
• Design data models and contracts that support schema evolution, lineage, reproducibility, and downstream analysis
• Operate and improve containerized workloads running on Kubernetes
• Build systems for monitoring pipeline health, data quality, performance, and infrastructure cost
• Diagnose production issues across application, data, and infrastructure layers
• Improve the performance of Python and SQL workloads operating over large datasets
• Establish testing and deployment practices that make data systems safer and easier to change
• Collaborate with AI engineers to productionize new model workflows and scale them across customer datasets
• Help shape technical architecture as Savant’s platform, customer base, and processing volume grow

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production backend or data-intensive software systems
• Excellent Python and SQL skills
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Sound technical judgment, taste, and the ability to make pragmatic architectural decisions
• Experience designing and operating data pipelines at scale using Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, or a comparable orchestration framework
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Skills

• Python
• Rust
• SQL
• DuckDB
• PostgreSQL
• Ducklake
• Dagster
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Location

• NYC
• Remote

Work Type

• Remote-eligible

Experience Level

• 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $175,000 to $250,000 per year

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Company-sponsored benefit programs

About the Company

• Savant is transforming how healthcare and life sciences organizations unlock the value trapped in unstructured medical data.
• Our platform combines cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) with domain-specific quality controls to convert free-text clinical records into structured, analysis-ready data — efficiently, accurately, and at scale.
• We work with leading institutions across healthcare, life sciences, and research, supporting faster studies, sharper insights, and better care.
• Backed by Roivant (NASDAQ: ROIV), Savant is built for organizations that see structured data not just as an output, but as a foundation for innovation.

Equal Opportunity

• Savant provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.