PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER, INFRASTRUCTURE

[Remote position]

Audere is a non-profit organization co-headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and Seattle, Washington. Audere builds software solutions to revolutionize detection, treatment, and eradication of diseases like COVID-19, malaria, and HIV. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Audere is partnering with global health NGOs, innovative diagnostics manufacturers, and similar mission-driven organizations in low- and middle-income countries to deliver simple-to-use digital solutions and scalable cloud services to make a positive impact in the world. Our team includes experienced technologists hailing from some of the largest software and healthcare companies, bringing their skills, passion, and expertise to bear as we create novel approaches leveraging the latest artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP) and language models (LMs).

We’re a small, vibrant startup and everyone here is hands-on, proactive, and committed to the mission. If you’re passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge solutions for some of the world’s hardest to solve problems, have a growth mindset, embrace ambiguity, love data, are comfortable setting direction and are willing to be scrappy - we’d love to talk to you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Principal Software Engineer on the Infrastructure team at Audere, you will create the back-end infrastructure and services that power digital tools to improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. This role spans cloud infrastructure and back-end platform development, with an emphasis on system-level design and long-term technical direction. 

You’ll design and build systems that:

  • Provide authentication, data storage, and analytics capabilities to our services and applications around self care and for community health workers.

  • Connect our world-class computer vision, language model and predictive analytics tech to partner organizations via open APIs.

  • Integrate real-time data from the field with public health systems across the world.

  • Transform raw data into actionable insights for governments, global health NGOs, and program funders.

Our systems are hosted in AWS, designed to scale elastically, and adhere to the highest standards of security and privacy. You’ll partner closely with other engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, and customers to create solutions that impact real people.

Responsibilities include (and are not limited to): 

  • Implement service endpoints, business logic, and data storage and processing tasks, primarily in Python.

  • Configure, deploy, scale, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure, including usage of Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, RDS, EC2, and ECS via Terraform.

  • Platform engineering responsibilities: monitoring of live products, developer tools, access management, coordinating on releases, CI/CD.

  • Support transition from research to productization when required.

  • Proactively suggest and drive new initiatives and technical directions for yourself and the team, including influencing architecture, standards, and best practices across the engineering organization.

  • Inspire technical excellence in the team by your own example, through code and design review, and by mentoring others. 

  • Analyze and communicate details of system design, performance, trade-offs, and risks to other Engineers and the Product Management team. 

  • Deeply understand and demonstrate empathy for users of Audere products. 

  • Champion product quality, excellence in execution, privacy, security and regulatory compliance.

  • Continuously assess opportunities for improvement by analyzing product performance in production, competitive offerings, user needs, and technological trends, with particular attention to reliability, observability and operational excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience. Lack of a degree is fine if you have significant software engineering experience.

  • Significant (typically 10+ years) of software engineering experience with demonstrated impact at a senior or principal level.

  • Demonstrated experience building, deploying, scaling, and supporting distributed, data-intensive services for mission-critical applications.

  • Experience with AWS or other cloud providers preferred.

  • Proactive self-starter with the ability to operate in an ambiguous environment.

  • Experience and proven success working with a global (distributed) team with diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives. 

  • Willingness to learn and a desire to grow in a mission-driven start-up organization. 

  • Experience with developing healthcare services, medical devices, point-of-care diagnostics, medical imaging products, generative AI, or MLOps, in a customer-focused organization is a plus.

Audere offers full medical, dental, and vision benefits, along with a 401(k) plan with matching benefits. We also offer unlimited paid time off, because we believe in balance. At Audere, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone can do their best work and believe our team should reflect the diversity of the people we serve - race, gender, age, ability, cultures, and beliefs. We are a team of smart, dedicated technologists who love to have a laugh and to solve meaningful world problems by applying the latest technology. Will you join us?

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Audere is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family, medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. Audere does not exclude people or treat them differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. Audere provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants to apply for positions and to all employees to perform essential functions of their roles.

HOW TO APPLY

Email your resume to Careers@AudereNow.org and include “Principal Engineer” in the subject line.