Lead Backend Platform Engineer

January AI is a pioneering company focused on improving metabolic health through AI-powered precision health solutions. The Lead Backend Platform Engineer will be responsible for managing backend services and infrastructure that support the company's applications and partner integrations, ensuring reliability and scalability of the systems.

Responsibilities:

• Own backend services that power our app and partner-facing products
• Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of APIs, microservices, EHR integration layer and service-to-service workflows
• Manage the AI infrastructure that powers our health intelligence and evaluation harness
• Improve production reliability, observability, alerting, incident response, and debugging workflows
• Drive architectural improvements that simplify service boundaries and reduce operational fragility
• Improve the quality, consistency, and maintainability of backend systems across the stack
• Partner closely with product, frontend, and AI to deliver robust systems
• Help define and enforce strong engineering standards around service design, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational ownership
• Step into ambiguous, cross-functional problems and drive them to resolution with minimal oversight