Backend Engineer

Clinical Ink is seeking a Backend Engineer to to join Clinical Ink’s Disease Management team based in Denmark and the United States. In this role, you build well-scoped backend features across our Python services, with the tests and quality controls that prove they work. You’ll learn what it means to build in a regulated, safety-critical environment, lean on AI coding agents to move fast, and grow toward owning a domain of your own. The Backend Engineer’s responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Implement backend features in our Python stack: API endpoints, data models and migrations, and the glue between services.
• Write meaningful tests and make it (or its equivalent) pass - correctness is proven by the controls, not by hoping
• Contribute to integrations with wearables and clinical data sources under guidance
• Instrument what you build - add the metrics and logs that make your code observable - and learn our tooling (CloudWatch, Sentry) and how the platform runs in production
• Learn and respect the safety/privacy context - PHI handling, least privilege - as part of normal development
• Use AI coding agents effectively, and build the habit of verifying what they generate
• Communicate clearly in code, PRs, and updates

• Solid programming fundamentals and some backend experience (Python a plus; we care more about strong fundamentals and learning speed)
• Comfort with APIs, databases/SQL, and version control; eagerness to learn good testing and design
• A real drive to build and ship, and curiosity to keep learning
• Openness to AI-augmented development with a healthy, verify-it mindset
• Exposure to FastAPI / SQLAlchemy / Postgres, AWS, or healthcare data (FHIR, wearables) preferred
• Any experience in regulated, safety-critical, or high-reliability software preferred

Clinical Ink is the global life science company that brings data, technology, and patient science together to unlock clinical discovery. Our deep therapeutic-area expertise, coupled with Direct Data Capture, eCOA, eConsent, telehealth, neurocognitive testing, and digital biomarkers advancement, drive the industry standard for data precision and usher in a new generation of clinical trials. With offices in the United States and Denmark, Clinical Ink is rewriting the clinical development experience.