Principal Software Engineer

About the Company

2care.ai is transforming elder-care by providing confidence and proactive care through an AI Health Voice Agent, WhatsApp-first workflows, and a unified medical-data platform. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs who have successfully scaled companies, we are backed by Silicon-Valley & Indian health-tech angels and are targeting the $430B global market, starting with the USA.

About the Role

As a Principal Engineer and Founding Engineering Leader, you will:

Responsibilities

• Architect the future: Design the end-to-end backend infrastructure, including microservices, data pipelines, event buses, and observability, to enable real-time interpretation of thousands of biomarkers.
• Build for trust & compliance: Lead the implementation of HIPAA/GDPR-ready security measures, role-based access, audit trails, encryption, and FHIR-compatible APIs.
• Scale real-time care: Create resilient APIs unifying WhatsApp, voice, and web dashboards to ensure 99.99% uptime.
• Own data strategy: Shape our multi-tenant Postgres + time-series + vector-DB stack for longitudinal health graphs, AI embeddings, and analytics.
• Lead & mentor: Hire the first backend squad, establish engineering best practices (IaC, CI/CD, trunk-based dev, TDD), and cultivate a culture of autonomy, craftsmanship, and user focus.
• Partner with founders & doctors: Translate clinical workflows into elegant, safe services.

Our Current Stack

Go, Node(TypeScript), Python, AWS (EKS, Lambda, RDS, MSK), Terraform / CDK, PostgreSQL / Planetscale, Kafka / NATS, Datadog, OpenAI, Gemini, MedLM, Twilio, WhatsApp Cloud API.

What Success Looks Like in 12 Months

• Achieve zero-to-one PMF with backend reliably supporting 100x traffic.
• Pass HIPAA readiness audits to unlock US provider integrations.
• Hire, mentor, and enable a team of 5 high-bar engineers shipping weekly value.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years building distributed systems at scale, ideally in health-tech, healthcare, or other regulated data domains.

Required Skills

• Expertise in two of Go, TypeScript-Node, Python, plus experience with REST, gRPC/GraphQL, and event-driven patterns (Kafka, SNS/SQS, NATS…).
• Cloud expertise on AWS (EKS / Fargate / Lambda / RDS / DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform / CDK / Pulumi) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Argo).
• Security-first mindset: Familiarity with OAuth2/OIDC, JWT, KMS, audit trails, SOC 2 / ISO 27001.
• Startup DNA: bias for action, comfort with ambiguity, obsession with user outcomes.

Preferred Skills

• Bonus: experience with LLM/ML inference, stream processing, or healthcare platforms.