Senior Backend Developer - AI
Damia GroupLisbon, Portugal
Posted May 25, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Uphill Health is a mission-driven team shaping the future of healthcare. They build conversational AI agents, intelligent clinical pathways, and care orchestration tools that empower clinicians to work at their full potential.
Job Description
Uphill Health is hiring a Senior Backend Developer - AI to join their team and build the next generation of AI infrastructure for healthcare. They are looking for a developer with experience in Python, AI frameworks, and AWS services to design and build AI agent pipelines, develop and maintain backend microservices, and contribute to the AWS cloud infrastructure.
Requirements
- MSc/BSc in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum 5 years of backend development experience in production environments
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience building and integrating LLM-powered applications using Python AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent)
- Experience in event-driven architecture — SQS, Kafka, or similar message queues
- Experience with AWS services: ECS/Fargate, S3, SQS, EventBridge, AI services
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL and Redis
- Strong testing experience — Unit, Integration, E2E
- Rigorous about code quality
- Experience taking part in architectural discussions and decisions
- Keen awareness of the evolving AI landscape, including LLM integrations and agent patterns in day-to-day engineering work
- Strong observability mindset: familiarity with tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry — understands the importance of logging, metrics, and alerting in a production-grade SaaS product
- Fluency in English
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Top-tier equipment — new MacBook + budget for peripherals
- Flexible schedule and hybrid work model
