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As a Software Development Engineer, you will join an engineering team dedicated to building next-generation health sensors and features. You will be responsible for developing backend systems, creating web-based monitoring and visualization platforms, and building intelligent automation to support large-scale user studies involving thousands of participants. Your daily work involves extracting insights from sophisticated datasets, ensuring data integrity through robust analysis pipelines, and partnering with researchers to translate requirements into platform features while maintaining strict privacy standards for sensitive health data. You will utilize Python, Flask, FastAPI, REST APIs, and PySpark to manage distributed data processing. Additionally, you will integrate OpenAI and Anthropic APIs into production tools and leverage LLM-based agentic workflows throughout the development lifecycle. The role focuses on solving technical challenges in health research by building scalable infrastructure for data collection and analysis.
What does a Software Development Engineer earn in California?
Median $217725 from 77 postings across 8 companies.
Build web-based monitoring and visualization platforms to provide real-time insights into study health and data quality.
Develop backend systems and robust data analysis pipelines to ensure high-quality data collection from health user studies.
Integrate LLM-based agentic workflows and APIs into production tools to enhance the user experience.
Manage the full development lifecycle using LLMs for planning, architecture, design review, and deployment.
Partner with researchers and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical features.
Lead design reviews and mentor other engineers while influencing the product roadmap.
Ensure all systems and data handling processes comply with strict privacy policies for sensitive health information.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, or equivalent with experience in biomedical, health, or sensitive data.
3+ years of software engineering experience.
Proficiency in Python and strong software development skills.
Experience integrating LLM-based functionality (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic APIs) into production web tools.
Experience leveraging LLMs in a closed-loop development workflow from planning to deployment.
7+ years of software engineering experience and 3+ years in backend web service development (preferred).
Experience building web application backends for data monitoring and visualization using Flask, FastAPI, or similar frameworks (preferred).
Experience with distributed data processing systems like PySpark/SparkSQL, cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and time series analysis (preferred).
Java
Scala
Python
C++
Go
Generative AI
Microservices
Cloud-native Architecture
CI/CD
GitOps
Argo CD
Container Orchestration
Data Structures
Algorithms
Object-Oriented Design
Clean Architecture