Backend Engineer

Database Design

Design and evolve PostgreSQL schemas, write efficient queries, apply indexing strategies, and help ensure the database remains performant and maintainable as the product grows.

Backend Development

Build new integrations between the Ketryx platform and other systems, APIs, and workflows. Contribute to improving latency, throughput, and fault tolerance across the backend stack.

Maintainable Systems

Write clean, well-tested code and contribute to standards around migrations, documentation, and testing. Help ensure the system remains easy to understand, debug, and extend.

Operational Reliability

Participate in monitoring, debugging, and incident response. Help identify performance bottlenecks and reliability issues, and contribute fixes and improvements.

Collaboration

Work closely with Product, Client Operations, Compliance, Security, and other engineers to deliver features that meet both business and regulatory requirements and resolve any technical challenges that come up

Youre passionate about software and making a real impact. Youre curious, enjoy solving tough problems, and love the idea of working in a fast-moving environment where you can take initiative. Youre comfortable collaborating in English with team members from different areas, and you take pride in owning projects from beginning to end. Above all, youre excited about using technology to improve patient outcomes., * 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer, with strong experience in backend development

• Solid skills in TypeScript
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL: schema design, query optimization, indexing, and performance tuning
• Solid understanding of backend performance and maintainability, including refactoring and technical debt management
• Comfortable collaborating across teams and participating in technical discussions and design reviews
• Comfortable working in English and collaborating across teams

Bonus Points

• Experience with Prisma and Next.js
• Experience with GraphQL (urql or Apollo)
• Familiarity with AWS services like S3, RDS, and Elastic Beanstalk
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes in production or near-production environments.
• Strong habits around testing (Jest, Cucumber, Playwright)
• Experience working in regulated industries like healthcare or finance
• Experience with Kotlin and Spring
• An interest in mentoring and helping others grow

Our Tech Stack

Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, JollyUI Backend: PostgreSQL, Redis, GraphQL (urql), Prisma Testing: Jest, Cucumber, Playwright Infrastructure: AWS (e.g. S3, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk), Sentry Collaboration: Slack, GitHub, Figma, Jira, Confluence

At Ketryx, we offer a competitive and transparent compensation package that reflects your experience and skills:

For candidates in Austria with 35 years of experience, the gross annual salary starts at 70,000+.

For candidates in Austria with more than 5 years of experience, the gross annual salary starts at 90,000+.

We offer all-in contracts, with final compensation tailored to your qualifications and experience. In addition to the base salary, our package includes a performance-based bonus and stock options, aligning your success with the companys growth. For remote candidates, salary may be adjusted slightly based on location.

What We Offer

• A talented, driven team thats passionate about the work we do

• Meaningful projects that make a difference in the world

• Competitive salary and equity

• For applicants in Austria: starting at 90,000, plus a performance-based bonus

A yearly company retreat

In the Vienna office:

• Free coffee, lunch, snacks, and drinks
• A Wiener Linien public transport ticket

Ketryx is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or 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, regulations, and ordinances.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Generous stock options possible
• Work in an exciting field with a positive impact on the world
• Opportunity to learn and grow as part of a global team
• Generous PTO for full-time

At Ketryx, were on a mission to help medical software teams build secure, reliable applications that make a real difference in peoples lives. We give them the tools to automate the tough parts of compliance and quality so they can focus on what matters most: creating life-saving products with confidence. We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. In this role, youll work on the backend of our platform, helping medical device companies get their products to market faster. Youll take ownership of features from start to finish, designing the architecture, writing the code, and seeing everything through to production. Your work will have a direct impact on the future of healthcare technology. This is a hybrid role in Vienna, with a minimum of three days per week spent on-site. Were open to remote work for exceptional candidates., Ketryx is saving and improving lives by making medical software safe and reliable. We empower software teams building medical applications to create safe, secure, and compliant products used by patients and providers worldwide. We believe that, by automating much of the documentation and quality processes, teams will be able to produce safer and more innovative medical software faster. Ketryx is at the forefront of helping teams incorporate AI/ML into medical software and thats why we need you!