Backend Software Engineer, Hassean Health, Helsinki
About this role
We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer for Hassean Health, UK-based healthtech startup, to design and build a platform that empowers healthcare providers with richer context, helping patients receive better, faster, and more continuous care.
As a Backend Software Engineer, you get to work in an unique role and build backend infrastructure against leading frontier LLMs, and doing it in regulated healthcare industry, where GDPR compliance truly matters. If this sounds interesting to you, read more below and apply today!
About the role
In this role, you will be focusing on backend development and are responsible for building backend systems that integrate frontier LLMs into clinical workflows under GDPR. You will also ensure that performance, scalability and security of the platform are consistently taken into account.
A key part of your day-to-day work will involve collaborating closely with a distributed engineering team, participating in daily stand-ups, and actively contributing to technical discussions and decision-making.
While you will have a high degree of independence in your work, you are expected to take ownership of your tasks and contribute proactively to both implementation and the evolution of the overall system architecture.
You are offered
Opportunity to work on real-world healthcare impact
Close collaboration with an international, highly experience founding team with a multiple successful exits
High level of autonomy and influence over technical decisions
Flexible working model (2-3 days at the office per week)
Work tasks
Designing and implementing secure, scalable backend systems and databases
Building APIs that connect with modern LLMs (e.g. OpenAI and Claude)
Ensuring security best practices and GDPR compliance across all development activities
Actively participating in daily stand-ups and close collaboration with a small, distributed engineering team
Contributing to system architecture discussions and the ongoing scaling of the p