
Backend Engineer at Biostate AI. Remote Location: India Office. Biostate. AI - . Backend Engineer. Location: . Remote or Onsite (Bengaluru, India). Job Type:. Full-time. Experience Level:. Mid-Senior. About the Role. We are seeking a Backend Engineer who thrives on designing scalable systems, writing clean APIs, and solving complex infrastructure challenges. You’ll be responsible for building the core server-side logic that powers our platform and enables seamless experiences for end users.. You’ll work closely with front-end developers, product managers, and infrastructure teams to build reliable, secure, and high-performance backend services that scale with our business.. Key Responsibilities. Design, implement, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data models.. Own system architecture decisions and participate in long-term technical planning.. Collaborate with other engineers to integrate front-end interfaces and ensure end-to-end feature delivery.. Ensure reliability, scalability, observability, and security of services in production.. Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code following best practices.. Monitor performance and troubleshoot issues across environments.. Implement dependency injection (DI), singleton, and scoped service patterns for efficient resource management.. Apply design patterns such as repository and factory to promote clean architecture and separation of concerns.. Develop and manage middleware for request processing, logging, and error handling.. Write asynchronous and concurrent code to improve system responsiveness and throughput.. Monitor performance and troubleshoot issues across environments.. Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployments, and automation where needed.. Collaborate on modular service design for maintainability and scalability.. Required Qualifications. 3+ years of backend development experience.. Strong programming skills in one or more backend languages (e.g., Python, C#, Java, Node.js, etc).. Solid understanding of RESTful API design and development, with experience integrating authentication and authorization frameworks, including OAuth 2.0, for secure API access.. Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).. Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architecture, or service-oriented systems.. Proficiency with version control (Git), testing frameworks, and automated deployments.. Strong grasp of software engineering principles: modularity, scalability, performance, and security.. Preferred Qualifications. Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, GCP, or AWS.. Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).. Knowledge of message queues and streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub).. Exposure to GraphQL, gRPC, or WebSocket-based APIs.. Experience with logging, metrics, monitoring, and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).. About Biostate AI, Inc.. Biostate AI is building generative models for predicting the evolution of living organisms' health following drug dosing, emphasizing safety and toxicity. By innovating new methodologies for collecting RNAseq and DNA methylation data at a fraction of the traditional cost, Biostate has curated a vast, proprietary, multi-species, multi-drug, multi-omics dataset. The company stands out for its patented tokenization and Universal Gene Embedding methods for transfer learning, enabling its generative AI models to forecast human and animal health states with unprecedented 1-day temporal resolution. Biostate AI is co-founded by David Zhang (former tenured professor at Rice University, former founder/CEO of NuProbe) and Ashwin Gopinath (former MIT professor, former founder/CTO of Palamedrix). Our individual investors include Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic), Joris Poort (CEO of Rescale), Michael Schnall-Levin (CTO of 10X Genomics), and Emily Leproust (CEO of Twist Biosciences), all leaders in fields relevant to our work. Institutional investors in Biostate include Accel Ventures, Matter Venture Partners, Vision Plus Capital, and Caltech Fund.. Our Culture. At Biostate AI, our core values are Honesty, Discipline, Efficiency, Initiative, and Meritocracy. Team members are encouraged and expected to take ownership of their projects, evaluate and decide effort allocation among multiple projects, continuously learn in an inter-disciplinary manner, provide direct feedback to management, continually challenge conventional assumptions and innovate from first principles, and contribute to the company's growth and success. We embrace a “move fast and break things” attitude, encouraging our team members to take calculated risks, experiment with new ideas, and learn from failures. We value the ability to move quickly, iterate on ideas, and push boundaries.. Join . Biostate.ai. in our mission to revolutionize the interface of artificial intelligence and biological research.