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Beacon Biosignals
Full time
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USA
09/16/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and design for complex projects and systems within the Datastore.
Design and scale PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, dataset snapshot pipelines, and GraphQL APIs.
Translate product, scientific, clinical, and partner requirements into integrations, services, and data-platform solutions.
Write and tune SQL while reasoning about schema design, indexes, query plans, data integrity, and maintainability.
Debug and profile ambiguous problems across system boundaries and improve structure, tooling, and test coverage.
Draft RFCs, lead technical discovery and design phases, and align stakeholders on implementation decisions.
Plan personal and team work while balancing delivery speed, generalizability, and technical debt.
Mentor engineers, provide actionable feedback, and serve as a technical lead or engineering-practice coordinator when needed.
Improve the Datastore’s operational robustness and usability through documentation, tools, and dashboards.

Requirements

7+ years of backend development experience, including at least 3 years focused on data platforms and backend infrastructure for data-centric applications.
Deep proficiency in at least one of data modeling, distributed systems, API design, or database engineering.
Strong production SQL and PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, indexing, query tuning, and query-plan analysis.
Hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent event-processing technologies such as RabbitMQ, Pulsar, or Amazon Kinesis.
Proficiency in Julia or Python; Julia experience is preferred but not required.
Experience with GraphQL and TypeScript or JavaScript with Node.js.
Experience deploying and operating services in containerized environments, with familiarity with Kubernetes and Terraform and/or Helm.
Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team practices, tooling, test coverage, or documentation.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience working across disciplines in remote or asynchronous environments.
Experience with or interest in LLM-assisted or agentic coding tools in production, including appropriate guardrails.
Strong fundamentals, curiosity, collaborative judgment, and interest in data infrastructure for health are valued even when candidates do not meet every listed qualification.

Benefits

100% remote work from anywhere in the U.S., supported by asynchronous work practices.
Access to in-person office hubs in Boston, New York City, and Paris.
Total compensation includes equity, paid time off, and other benefits.

Salary: $170k - $190k/yr

Beacon Biosignals

Beacon Biosignals builds an AI platform and FDA-cleared at-home EEG wearables used by biopharma and clinicians to develop and deliver treatments for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. It sells clinical development services and software for brain-signal analysis to life sciences partn...

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