Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Design, build and scale backend and full-stack services for Konovo's AI-enabled healthcare insights platform, working with the LITE team and product squads, and mentoring junior engineers.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable services and distributed systems that support Konovo's AI-enabled healthcare insights platform
• Write high-quality, testable, and maintainable code while adhering to engineering best practices
• Partner with the LITE (LLM Innovation & Technology Engineering) team and cross-functional product squads to integrate emerging AI capabilities into core systems
• Lead technical design discussions, drive architectural decisions, and mentor junior engineers
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and observability across services
• Collaborate with Product Managers to refine requirements, map and ensure technical feasibility
• Contribute to secure, compliant engineering practices aligned with responsible AI and healthcare data standards
• Proactively identify risks, performance bottlenecks, and architectural improvements
• Support release readiness, deployment processes, and post-release monitoring

What you'll need

• 6–10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building production-grade systems
• Strong expertise in at least one backend language (e.g., Java, Python, Go, C#) and familiarity with modern frameworks
• Frontend or full-stack development experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React.js or Next.js
• Experience designing and scaling distributed systems, microservices, or cloud-native architectures, with hands-on ownership of microservices across the stack and an approximately 60% backend focus
• Strong experience designing, building, and integrating RESTful APIs, with a solid understanding of API best practices, security, and performance patterns
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL/NoSQL), messaging systems, and API design
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Comfortable working in Agile environments and collaborating across product and engineering teams
• Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly, both written and verbal
• High ownership mindset with disciplined follow-through and a bias toward action
• Ability to apply AI tools and strong engineering fundamentals to build AI-enabled features and workflows
• Curiosity and openness to AI-enhanced engineering workflows, tooling, and delivery models, and exposure to using AI for development, with hands-on proficiency in AI coding tools such as Claude Code for implementation, debugging, testing, and refactoring
• Adaptability to thrive in a fast-changing environment while navigating challenges collaboratively

Nice to have

• Node.js experience
• Experience working with platform or internal enablement teams
• Experience building AI agents

Details

• Location: Bengaluru (Whitefield), India
• Hybrid work environment