Backend Engineer (2-5Yrs)

SouthGuild is an applied AI R&D lab operating where medicine, business, and audit meet code. We don’t just build APIs — we weaponize data, automate workflows, and give AI real-world legs. From NLP to data pipelines to healthcare automation, we turn chaotic systems into clean abstractions and working products.

• Daily exposure to gnarly real-world data (FHIR, X12, CSVs from the 90s)
• DSA jams for those who actually enjoy problem-solving
• You get a say in product direction — not just tickets
• Peers who’ll debate system design and drag you to a gym after
• The lab vibe: small, sharp, and allergic to mediocrity
  

• Tame EMR APIs that refuse to behave like REST
• Build streaming pipelines for real-time clinical data
• Architect async systems that don’t fall over at scale
• Make healthcare bots sound human without hallucinating ICD codes
• Implement audit trails so clean they make compliance officers smile
• Optimize databases that hold entire hospital histories
• Deploy, trace, and debug distributed systems that matter
  

• 2–4 yrs backend engineering (Node.js / Go / Python — choose your weapon)
• Comfort across queues, caches, and databases (SQL + NoSQL both)
• Strong async programming chops — goroutines, promises, coroutines, doesn’t matter
• You design for scale before scale breaks you
• Security-first mindset: encryption, access control, paranoia included
• You write clean, traceable code with commit messages that make sense
  

• You’ve touched FHIR, HL7, or survived EDI hell
• You’ve debugged a deadlock without crying
• You’ve shipped something with Twilio or voice integrations
• You’ve wrangled LLMs into structured data pipelines
• You’ve built metrics dashboards and cared about latency
  

• Builder mentality > ticket follower
• Nerdy curiosity with practical rigor
• Laughs at complexity but still fixes it
• Thrives when thrown at unsolved, high-entropy systems