Principal Software Engineer

Anima is on a mission to deliver precision medicine to everyone in the world in under 24 hours. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help extend existing product lines and build new ones at the cutting edge of healthcare reinforcement learning and agentic AI, ultimately saving countless lives.

Responsibilities:

• Help add further key third party API integrations, including with legacy EMR systems and national APIs like e.g. the electronic prescribing service, allowing Anima to directly issue prescriptions
• Iterate on a proprietary graph traversal algorithm to improve patient care and clinical value, and increasingly move away from explicit curation to implicit curation by NNs
• Ship important features that will directly increase delta lives saved in your first 2 weeks
• Join customer calls to develop a deep understanding of their fundamental motivations and needs/pain points
• Help architect and deploy a scalable & cost effective ETL data pipeline with version control, outputting clean data ready for tokenisation
• Help deploy our active deep learning training & validation architecture to prod, so that we can correctly eat up our ‘1.0’ systems at the right time
• Build cutting edge products like global context aware chat with semantic search, care orchestration and LLM-enabled cloud telephony e2e
• Hire/scale the team, while implementing the right processes at the right times to maximise discounted team productivity and minimise discounted dev time cost for shipping
• Potential to transition to a more managerial/executive role. Lead an autonomous lance of elite engineers to fix healthcare and save lives
• Work with the ML/data team to creatively ideate and ship features to improve ETL pipeline throughput and quality through a data-driven approach powered by analytics

Requirements:

• Hungry and wants their shot to change the world - a force of nature when empowered with the tools, resources and development to do it. Sees joining Anima as potentially their shot to do this, and takes duty to crew and mission extremely seriously
• Obsessively concerned with UX, and optimises for this when building features rather than arbitrary technical goals
• Bored and frustrated at big companies; feel held back by red tape, bureaucracy and poor decisions
• Keen to understand the big picture & entire context of the company and vertical; impatient for growth towards a senior executive role
• Expert competency in TS, plus being reasonably tech + language agnostic. Comfortable with key frameworks/libraries like Angular, Node and React. Able to work full stack in JS/TS. Values pragmatism and open discussion from first principles rather than dogma
• Seeks to maximise not only self productivity, but combined team productivity, communicating the right things at the right time through the right channels (verbal/Slack/Notion)
• Disciplined towards best practice version control, CI/CD and code extensibility. Values ‘interface safety' through dimensionality reduction at interfaces
• Exceptional at ‘breadth-first search' through Googling when tackling new challenges, and consistently mindful of local maxima
• Intellectually curious with a growth mindset - able to tackle entirely novel challenges that lack prior precedent through applying strong CS fundamentals and first principles thinking, creatively using the right data structures & algorithms to solve problems 90/10
• Familiarity with AWS (e.g. APIG, SQS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cognito, Amplify, CloudFormation) and/or hungry to learn