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Job Title


Engineering Manager


Company : Healthify


Location : Guntur, Andhra Pradesh


Created : 2025-07-23


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

About Healthify Healthify is on a mission to make wellness accessible through AI-driven coaching and seamless user experiences. We’re a tight-knit, flat-structured team in Bangalore guided by our values: Mission First, Act Like an Owner, Do The Impossible, Customer Focused, Do The Right Thing, and High Standards.We’re seeking a seasoned Principal Engineer - Backend & AI Platforms to both lead the backend squad and own our core services and AI pipelines. You’ll run our agile delivery, interface closely with Product & Design, and architect the systems that power Ria (AI coach), Active Choices, Snap (photo-based food recognition), home-grown recommendation models, and real-time voice systems.Key Responsibilities - Backend Development Architect, build, and optimize Python/Django and Go microservices Implement performance tuning, critical bug-fixes, and scalability improvements. AI Platform & Model Serving Own end-to-end model-serving infrastructure (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and home-grown SageMaker models) Integrate and manage task queues, Redis caching, and API endpoints for real-time inference. Multi-modal AI Infrastructure Take ownership of Image and Voice AI frameworks—ensuring reliability in live demos and production. Monitoring, Alerting & Observability Instrument services with NewRelic metrics and Coralogix logs Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs; partner with SRE to refine PagerDuty alerts CI/CD & Release Management Architect and optimize our code-review and GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows—enforcing quality gates (unit tests, linting, merge checks) and streamlined deployment strategies—to minimize bugs and accelerate release cadence. Collaborate on Terraform-driven IaC for AWS ECS deployments, RDS/MongoDB migrations, and related services Technical Mentorship & Hiring Lead backend/AI technical screens and code-challenge evaluations Mentor junior engineers through pair programming and knowledge-sharing workshops Team Leadership & Delivery Run daily standups, bi-weekly sprint planning, backlog grooming, and resource allocation for the backend squad Serve as primary liaison to Product & Design on feature scoping, sprint commitments, and delivery timelinesQualifications - Must-Have 10+ years of backend development experience, with deep Python/Django expertise in startups Proven experience building services in Golang or another strongly-typed language Expert in AWS: ECS, RDS, MongoDB Atlas, SageMaker, IAM, VPC, and CI/CD best practices Hands-on with Redis, Celery, and message-driven architectures Track record integrating OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic LLMs, and deploying ML models on AWS Proficient in GitHub, GitHub Actions, and agile scrum rituals Strong observability mindset: metrics (NewRelic), logging (Coralogix), and alerting (PagerDuty) Excellent communicator who thrives in a flat, high-ownership culture Nice-to-Have Experience building real-time voice or streaming applications Familiarity with performance tuning at the database and application layers Contributions to open-source AI or backend frameworks Prior experience in a consumer-facing healthtech or wellness startupWhat We Offer - A mission-driven environment where your work directly impacts millions of users A culture of autonomy, high standards, and continuous learning Close collaboration with cross-functional leaders and senior engineers