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Backend Platform Engineer

Engineering India (remote/hybrid-friendly) Hybrid Full-time

Build and operate the backend systems supporting VAMS BIOME’s microbiome testing and ATLAS intelligence platform — NestJS, PostgreSQL, Prisma and AWS in production, working alongside frontend, bioinformatics and scientific teams.

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About this role

VAMS BIOME’s backend platform carries everything from sample registration and order flows to the delivery of ATLAS reports: REST APIs, authentication and authorization, secure data workflows, storage, and the asynchronous jobs that connect laboratory output to user-facing results.

You will work on infrastructure supporting biological and scientific data systems. The scientific algorithms themselves — ATLAS scoring and interpretation — are governed separately by the scientific team; your work is the production platform they run on: correct, secure, observable and maintainable.

The role is remote/hybrid-friendly within India, with reasonable availability for collaboration with the engineering and scientific team.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and operate NestJS / TypeScript backend services and REST APIs
  • Model and evolve PostgreSQL schemas with Prisma, including reviewed, reversible migrations
  • Implement authentication, authorization and secure data workflows (Supabase integrations, role-based access)
  • Work with AWS services — S3/object storage, queues and worker workflows — for asynchronous processing
  • Integrate third-party APIs (payments, email, laboratory systems) behind clean service boundaries
  • Write meaningful automated tests and keep CI/CD green
  • Add observability (logging, metrics, alerts) and troubleshoot production incidents
  • Apply security and privacy fundamentals to systems that handle personal and biological data
  • Collaborate with frontend, bioinformatics and scientific colleagues on end-to-end features

Requirements

  • Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js backend engineering
  • Solid SQL and PostgreSQL knowledge in production systems
  • Experience designing, shipping and operating production software
  • A testing habit: you write tests because they catch your own bugs
  • Comfortable with Git-based workflows and code review
  • Working knowledge of security fundamentals (authN/authZ, secrets handling, input validation)

Preferred qualifications

  • NestJS, Prisma, Supabase
  • AWS (S3, IAM, queues) and Vercel deployment models
  • Healthcare, life-science or other regulated-data software
  • Bioinformatics platforms or scientific data pipelines
  • Workflow orchestration and background-job architectures

How to apply

Around 3+ years of relevant production backend experience is typical for this role, but we read every application — demonstrated engineering depth matters more than year counts.

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