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Senior Full-stack Engineer (backend-leaning)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 6 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience
  • Strong Python and JavaScript/TypeScript with React frontend experience
  • Neo4j graph database experience and GraphQL
  • Production-level AI/LLM integration experience (beyond basic prompting)

Responsibilities

  • Build new features and enhancements across backend and frontend
  • Collaborate daily with the product team to scope work and demo progress end-of-day
  • Contribute to architectural and design decisions with leadership sign-off on major calls
  • Resolve customer-reported bugs tracked in GitHub

About the company

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South Geeks

IT Services & IT Consulting

South Geeks engages top performance Software Developers from Latin America to join our clientsโ€™ teams worldwide. We build amazing products and sustain long-term relationships with our counterparts. We pride ourselves on being a socially responsible company. The results are seen in the performance of our teams and the bond we hold with each of our clients.

Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting
Company size11 - 50

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About Us

At South Geeks, we connect top LATAM engineering talent with innovative companies building impactful products worldwide. We focus on long-term partnerships, strong technical environments, and creating spaces where professionals can grow, contribute, and thrive.

About the client

Our client is a health tech startup redefining medical device innovation with an AI platform that automates research, documentation, and workflows end-to-end, helping deliver lifesaving devices sooner. The product combines customer onboarding flows, a Neo4j knowledge graph and an AI/LLM-powered recommendation and scoring system, with applicability in regulated environments such as medical device, pharma, and parametric documentation.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer (backend-leaning) with 6 to 10 years of experience who can translate conceptual product ideas into solid, shippable code. You will work directly with the Product team on daily scoping and end-of-day mini demos and collaborate with the fractional CTO on architectural decisions. Roughly 70% of your time will go to new feature development and enhancements and the remaining 30% to resolving customer-reported bugs. You will have real influence on technical decisions and are expected to bring informed opinions on trade-offs.

What you need to succeed in this role

  • 6 to 10 years of professional software engineering experience

  • Strong Python and JavaScript/TypeScript

  • React on the frontend

  • Neo4j (graph database) experience

  • GraphQL

  • Production-level AI/LLM integration experience (beyond basic prompting)

  • Experience working with or building MCP servers

  • 100% Eastern Time overlap during business hours

  • Excellent written and spoken English, strong communication skills

If you get the job, you will have to

  • Build new features and enhance existing ones across backend and frontend

  • Collaborate daily with the product team to scope work and demo progress end-of-day

  • Contribute to architectural and design decisions, with sign-off from leadership on major calls

  • Resolve customer-reported bugs tracked in GitHub

  • Help evolve the AI/LLM and knowledge-graph capabilities powering the platform

Nice to Have

  • FastAPI or similar Python web frameworks

  • Experience in regulated domains (medical device, pharma, health-tech, life sciences)

  • Familiarity with vector databases, RAG, or agentic AI patterns

  • Exposure to customer onboarding or document/workflow automation products

Our team

We strive to create an inspiring and growth-oriented environment where everyone feels valued. Our people come from diverse backgrounds across Latin America and partner with world-class companies to solve meaningful engineering problems. We invest in our team through continuous learning, coaching, and a culture that rewards curiosity, ownership, and collaboration.

What we offer

  • Long-term projects

  • 100% remote work

  • Payment in USD

  • Paid Time Off (PTO)

  • Work-from-home & training reimbursement

  • English lessons

  • Technical training

  • Career coaching

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