Senior Backend Engineer

About UpHill

At UpHill, our mission is to increase clinical capacity so healthcare professionals can focus on what matters most - the patients. Healthcare teams are either stretched thin by work that can be automated or weighed down by waste that can be avoided. UpHill's intelligent automated platform uses hospital data and patient conversations to turn chaos into useful and efficient interactions.

We build conversational AI agents, intelligent clinical pathways, and care orchestration tools that empower clinicians to work at their full potential - deployed across leading hospitals in Europe, with 100K+ lives impacted and over 1 million clinical interactions mediated. UpHill Route is a certified Class IIa Medical Device.

We're a team of curious and creative people who believe technology should enhance - not replace - the work of healthcare professionals. If you're excited about making a real impact in one of the most meaningful industries in the world, you just might be an Uphiller.

Today we're looking for a Senior Software Engineerto join our talented team and help us build a decision support SaaS platform that will revolutionize healthcare, minimize medical error and thus improve patient outcomes.

Stack Used

• Java 17 · Spring Boot 3
• Docker
• Relational SQL and Document NoSQL
• AWS - Fargate (service architecture), EventBridge, SQS, Cognito, Lambda - Terraform

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the architect to design microservices:Work closely with the architect to understand product requirements and translate them into a technical solution using microservices architecture - defining service boundaries, APIs, data models, and communication protocols.
• Develop and maintain microservices:Translate the designed architecture into well-written, clean, maintainable, and testable code using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3. Ensure services are performant, scalable, and secure.
• Contribute to AWS cloud infrastructure:Participate in designing, deploying, and maintaining the AWS cloud infrastructure that supports the SaaS application.
• Showcase implemented solutions:Communicate and demonstrate technical solutions during sprint reviews - presentations, demos, or documentation that explain design choices, functionality, and trade-offs.
• Define and uphold coding conventions:Work with the team to establish and maintain clear, consistent coding standards - identifying areas for improvement and documenting agreed-upon practices.
• Ownership mentality:You ship and maintain what you build.
• Autonomous but collaborative:Capable of owning initiatives while working effectively with cross-functional teams (product, design, ops, etc.).
• Product-focused:You care about the why as much as the how behind every feature.

Main Requirements

• MSc/BSc in Computer Engineering or similar
• Minimum 7 years of backend development experience using Object-Oriented Programming
• Experience in Java 11 or newer, Spring Boot, and Spring Framework
• Experience in event-driven architecture
• Experience with Relational SQL and Document NoSQLdatabases
• Strong testing experience - Unit, Integration, E2E
• Rigorous about code quality - usage of tools like SonarQube
• Experience taking part in architectural discussions and decisions
• Strong observability mindset: familiarity with tools like CloudWatch, DataDog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry - understands logging, metrics, and alerting in production-grade SaaS
• Keen awareness of the evolving software landscape, including the integration of AI assistants and productivity tools in day-to-day engineering work
• Experience designing systems for production readiness: health checks, distributed tracing, incident response
• Experience in code reviews and working collaboratively in a team
• Fluency in English

Strong Plus

• Docker and containerised deployments
• NoSQL experience
• CI/CD knowledge
• DevOps knowledge
• Terraform or other IaC tools
• AWS knowledge
• Experience in services-oriented / microservices architecture
• Messaging brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)
• CloudWatch, DataDog, or similar observability tooling
• HL7v2 / FHIR knowledge
• Experience with integrations

What You'll Get

• Be part of a dynamic, mission-driven team shaping the future of healthcare
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Top-tier equipment - new MacBook + budget for peripherals
• Flexible schedule and hybrid work model
• No-BS culture