Senior Backend Software Engineer | AI Engine

At Wellhub we're revolutionizing workplace wellness. Our platform connects employees worldwide to the best partners for fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep—all in one simple subscription. Headquartered in NYC with team members in Europe, North America and South America, we’re on a mission to make every company a wellness company.

We believe work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced. Here, you’ll find a team that values wellbeing, collaboration, and different perspectives, where passion and creativity push boundaries to create real impact. Your contributions will help shape a healthier, more balanced world for you and millions of people globally. 

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer on the AI Engine team, you will:

• Design and ship AI-powered features end to end. You own quality, latency, and cost.
• Build backend services and APIs that hold up under real load.
• Instrument what you ship, watch the numbers, fix what's wrong.
• Review code and designs critically. Push back when something doesn't add up.
• Help taking prompt, retrieval, and agent changes from experiment to production.
• Live the mission: inspire and empower others by genuinely caring for your own wellbeing and your colleagues. Bring wellbeing to the forefront of work, and create a supportive environment where everyone feels comfortable taking care of themselves, taking time off, and finding work-life wellness.

• Strong communicator, written and verbal, with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Critical thinker. You question assumptions instead of nodding along.
• No ego. Comfortable saying "I don't know" and going to find out.
• Proactive. You notice things that should be better and fix them without being asked.
• Collaborative across product, design, data science, and engineering.

• Strong Python and a track record of shipping and operating production backends.
• Solid AWS, including serverless (Lambda).
• SQL and NoSQL (DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Postgres). you understand access patterns and where things fall over.
• APIs you've actually designed, integrated, and monitored in production.
• Event-driven systems (Kafka, SQS).
• Production observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerts (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Comfort with distributed systems and loosely-scoped problems.

• Strong SQL and some data pipeline experience (e.g., Airflow).
• Experience with LLM-based systems in production.  Evaluation, prompts, retrieval, agentic workflows.
• AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot).
• Kotlin, Go, or Java for cross-team work.

We recognize that individuals approach job applications differently. We strongly encourage all aspiring applicants to go for it, even if they don't match the job description 100%. We welcome your application and will be delighted to explore if you could be a great fit for our team. For this specific role, please note that experience working with Kotlin, Golang, or Java, microservices, and distributed systems are mandatory requirements.

We aim to create a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive space where everyone knows they belong. 

Wellhub is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.

Our commitment to inclusion also extends to how we recognize and reward our people. We’re proud to be Syndio Fair Pay Certified, reflecting our ongoing dedication to equitable and fair pay practices across our global team. Read more about it here.

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