Backend Engineer II - Healthcare

🏢 H1 · 📍 New York · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ Full time
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is a basic human right. Our mission is to provide a platform that can optimally inform every doctor interaction globally. This promotes health equity and builds needed trust in healthcare systems. To accomplish this our teams harness the power of data and AI-technology to unlock groundbreaking medical insights and convert those insights into action that result in optimal patient outcomes and accelerates an equitable and inclusive drug development lifecycle. Visit h1.com to learn more about us.
 
As part of H1’s hiring process, all candidates are required to participate in an in-person final interview. Depending on your location, this may require travel. 
 
The MCU Engineering team plays a critical role in delivering the scalable platform capabilities that power H1's products. Our engineers build the services, APIs, event-driven systems, and user experiences that transform complex healthcare data into fast, reliable, and intuitive products used by life sciences organizations around the world. Working across modern cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and AI-enabled technologies, this team solves challenging technical problems at scale while partnering closely with Product, Design, and Data Engineering to continually improve the performance, reliability, and capabilities of our platform.
 
WHAT YOU'LL DO AT H1
As a Software Engineer II on our MCU team, you will contribute to the delivery of meaningful product capabilities across the full stack, working closely with senior engineers, Product, and Design to build scalable, high-performing applications that power H1's platform. This role is ideal for an engineer who is growing their full-stack skill set, eager to take on increasing ownership, and excited to solve real-world distributed systems challenges in a collaborative environment.
 
You will:
- Contribute to features end-to-end from implementation and testing through deployment and production support, with guidance from senior team members
- Develop and maintain APIs, backend services, and distributed microservice architectures
- Implement and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and indexes for large-scale applications
- Build and maintain Kafka-based event-driven systems, including producers, consumers, and consumer groups
- Develop and optimize
🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For H1 Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Interviewers strictly assess your ability to handle complex healthcare data networks, KOL mapping, and life sciences commercialization.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Treating healthcare data like standard consumer e-commerce analytics
  • 2. Failing to grasp the complex stakeholder ecosystem of physicians, hospitals, and pharma brands
  • 3. Lack of precision when discussing data governance and privacy standards
✨ Recommended Role Alignment Hook:

I unlock life sciences intelligence by transforming complex healthcare data into actionable commercial networks.

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