Engineering Lead

Company Description Genie Health is an AI-powered health guide designed to empower individuals in taking control of their health. By consolidating health data from medical reports, wearables, and family health history, Genie creates personalized and meaningful health journeys. Using a simple three-step approach—Know Me, Show Me, and Help Me—Genie delivers tailored insights and connects users to the right experts.

Our mission is to make health management seamless, personalized, and impactful, guiding users to become the healthiest versions of themselves. The Role We're hiring a senior backend-focused Engineering Lead / Staff Engineer to help architect and scale Genie's core platform. This is a foundational role.

You will design and build the systems that power health data aggregation, insights generation, and partner integrations — while shaping engineering standards, mentoring early hires, and working closely with founders, who are based in Singapore This is a remote role based in India, working closely with Genie's founders in Singapore and collaborating across distributed teams. What You'll Do Architect and build scalable backend systems powering Genie's core platform Design APIs, data models, and services for multi-tenant B2B and consumer use cases Build and manage secure data pipelines for health data ingestion, processing, and sharing Work across cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP) to deploy, scale, and maintain services Integrate AI/LLM capabilities into production systems where relevant Collaborate with Product, Design, and founders to translate complex requirements into robust systems Contribute to mobile/backend integration (React Native exposure helpful) Work across distributed teams (multiple geographies) and drive engineering alignment Set engineering standards, review code, and mentor future team members Move fast while ensuring system reliability, security, and scalability Lead and mentor engineers and guide AI agents What We're Looking For Strong backend engineering expertise (NestJS + TypeScript, Python) Experience building and scaling consumer platforms, marketplaces, or multi-tenant B2B systems (org-scoped data, RBAC, data isolation) Deep understanding of system design, APIs, and data architecture Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS and GCP — EKS, RDS Aurora, SQS, Secrets Manager, S3) Familiarity with complex data systems and data sharing frameworks Comfortable working with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code) — while maintaining strong independent thinking Experience collaborating across distributed teams (2–3 locations) Ability to operate independently in a startup environment and own large parts of the system Experience leading small teams of engineers and driving shared outcomes Solid understanding of relational databases and data modeling Strong PostgreSQL — schema design, migrations, query optimization (Prisma ORM preferred) Comfortable with Terraform and Helm for deployment (or willing to learn fast) Experience with HIPAA/healthcare compliance — PHI handling, audit trails, encryption Nice to Have Experience with AI/ML systems or LLM integrations Mobile experience (React Native or similar) Exposure to healthtech or regulated environments (e.g. HIPAA) Experience building systems involving sensitive data and privacy constraints