Senior Software Engineer

About Vumedi:

Vumedi is the largest video education platform for doctors worldwide, dedicated to advancing medical education through innovative video-based learning. Our mission is to empower healthcare professionals by providing them with access to the latest clinical knowledge and surgical techniques from experts around the globe. We curate a vast library of high-quality educational content, enabling users to enhance their skills, stay informed about industry trends, and improve patient outcomes. We are headquartered in Oakland, CA, and have additional offices in Minneapolis, MN, and Zagreb, Croatia. 

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to lead the development of our digital platform and products at this critical stage of Vumedi’s growth. 

Why join Vumedi right now?

• Build technology that matters in a fast-scaling Silicon Valley digital healthcare company: Your work directly impacts how doctors across the world learn and make decisions that save lives.
• Grow as we grow: Be part of a company in an accelerated growth phase, where expanding teams, products, and markets create real opportunities for ownership, leadership, and career progression.
• Build with AI: Work on applied LLM systems - from intelligent search to AI-driven content agents - and shape how AI transforms medical knowledge delivery.
• Own your craft end-to-end: Take full responsibility for building systems that scale globally and power mission-critical workflows.
• Collaborate globally: Join a world-class team of passionate engineers on modern tech stack which will further drive your career development.
• Have real product impact: Influence the direction of product development by collaborating closely with product and leadership teams.

About the role:

In this role you’ll work with the engineering team in Zagreb and cooperate with our product team. This is a unique opportunity to work in a fast growing company and help us build products that make a major impact on the global physician audience. Our digital platform is at the heart of our company and is the base on top of which the company is built. We work on a modern technology stack which is primarily based on Django as a web backend framework, deployed on AWS cloud platform solution.

What you will do:

• Work closely with the engineering and product team on specifying and executing projects on our platform
• In the implementation process, guide more junior team members and clearly communicate any issues and/or roadblocks encountered
• Write automated tests that will cover the new functionality
• Peer-review other team member’s designs and pull requests
• Stay on top of technology trends, especially ones related to our stack. Evaluate and compare possible technology updates and/or new technologies to incorporate in our business. 
• Participate in roadmap discussions, influence what and how we will build. Suggest improvements for our platform and processes
• Collaborate and communicate with other business units on particular projects of interest

Who you are:

You have been in software engineering for 5+ years and have honed your craft, ideally using scripting languages. From this experience you have developed broad competencies, technical skills and you use frameworks to build out products and implement business processes. You have the drive to solve complex problems, and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs concerning limited resources. You have a passion for technology, data and problem solving. 

You Have:

• Experience solving difficult technical problems: Building out new complex features and refactoring existing functionality for extendibility
• Analytical ability: Our platform is complex and over the years of your experience you have tackled issues that required understanding of interoperability of several components: From ways overload on one part of the system influences others, logs correlation and analysis
• Communication skills: You can explain the trade offs when building complex solutions to non-technical colleagues. Ability to analyze scope vs. cost of requirements in order to suggest the best solution
• Mentorship: You’re able to mentor junior engineers, navigating them through the onboarding processes as well as through projects by helping them grow technically, gain visibility and communication skills within the company

Skills and Qualifications:

• Expert in at least one major web framework
• Advanced understanding of relational databases
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems
• BONUSES: Working experience of one major JavaScript framework; familiarity with AWS platform and its core features; DevOps knowledge

You can expect:

The base salary range for this role is determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to skills and scope required, unique relevant experience, and job-related skills.

Cash salary is but one component of our compensation package. It’s inclusive of base salary, education budget, supplemental health insurance, free meals allowance, work from an alternative workplace allowance, occasional awards - Christmas bonus, and an annual bonus.

We also offer stock options as part of our compensation package, giving you the opportunity to share in the long-term success and growth of the company.

This is a hybrid role, working 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) in our Zagreb office.