Prosum is looking for a strong Full-Stack or Backend Engineer to help build a Gene & Variant Curation Platform powered by AI. This role will involve working directly with bioinformatics scientists to develop a scalable production system for curated bioinformatics data, focusing on backend services and intelligent data retrieval systems.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with bioinformatics scientists for knowledge transfer
- Design and build backend services for curated genomic data
- Implement intelligent data retrieval/search systems
- Build API layer for internal and external consumption
- Integrate AI agent-based workflows
- Deploy solutions into production (on-prem preferred)
- Optionally develop UI components if needed
- Collaborate on tech stack decisions (not finalized yet)
Requirements:
- Strong backend or full-stack engineering experience
- Experience optimizing development practices with agentic AI tooling (not Claude)
- Experience working with on-prem deployments
- Some AWS / cloud experience
- Experience building API-based platforms
- Understanding of data pipelines and structured datasets
- Ability to work with domain experts (bioinformatics scientists)
- Production deployment experience
- Experience with Agentic AI frameworks
- Experience deploying AI agents into production
- Familiarity with LLM-based workflow automation
- Bioinformatics or genomics exposure
- Experience building search / retrieval systems
- Knowledge of hybrid on-prem + AI model deployment
- AI / LLM Environment
- Agent-based AI workflows required
- May use models such as DeepSeek / Qwen or similar
- Not using Claude (localization constraints)
- Candidate does not need to architect AI models
- Must understand how to deploy and use agentic AI systems