Backend Engineer

About Us

GenMD is unlocking healthcare data at scale. Today, roughly 97% of healthcare data goes unused because of patient privacy concerns. We’ve found a way to unlock that data—safely and ethically—for AI labs, pharma companies, and researchers. This isn’t a chatbot, or an AI agent replacing clinicians or automating paperwork. It’s core infrastructure that enables better drugs, faster clinical trials, and more powerful medical research—the kind of foundation that makes real breakthroughs, including curing diseases, possible.

The company was built out of years inside Stanford Medicine, working closely with world-class researchers and clinicians. We have access to tens of millions of patients, longitudinal health records, and clinical notes. GenMD is just coming out of stealth, already revenue-generating, well-funded, and backed by premier investors with years of runway. We’re intentionally small, move fast, and are focused on building something fundamental.

Your Mission

• Design, build, and own cloud infrastructure and data/ML pipelines end-to-end.

• Containerize, automate, and scale systems using Docker and cloud-native services.

• Build reliable, efficient pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment.

• Make pragmatic architecture decisions optimized for speed, reliability, and iteration.

• Work directly with the Founder/CEO and operate with founder-level ownership.

Requirements

• 3+ years building and shipping production systems in cloud environments.

• Strong experience with AWS or GCP (compute, storage, IAM, networking).

• Hands-on experience with Docker and modern pipeline/workflow tooling.

• Strong Python backend skills; comfortable building services, jobs, and internal tools.

• Startup mindset: you’ve built things from scratch and owned them end-to-end.

Compensation

• $160K – $220K • Offers Equity

Culture

• Office in Palo Alto. Walking distance to University Ave and Stanford campus.

• High ownership, high intensity, zero passengers.

• We don’t hire for culture fit—we hire people who create culture.

Benefits

• Competitive comp + meaningful equity.

• Unlimited PTO, full health benefits.

• Team offsites, conferences, late nights building something real.

• Perks evolve with the team—we’re early and intentional.