Senior Software Engineer

About this role

• Beacon Biosignals is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Datastore team
• The Datastore sits at the heart of Beacon’s platform
• It defines our foundational data model and serves as the centralized repository and API for brain data collected from clinical studies, supporting the analytical tools, services, and applications used by our scientists, clinicians, and partners
• This role emphasizes the design and scaling of backend systems for data infrastructure: PostgreSQL data models, Kafka-driven event pipelines, and a GraphQL API that enables scientific and clinical data use - distinct from frontend development or end-user product surfaces
• You will lead the design and integration of new services and components for data and event processing, own the pipelines that deliver dataset snapshots into our warehouse, and collaborate with platform and application teams to implement APIs that unlock new workflows in Beacon’s expanding portfolio of clinical studies and digital health products
• You should expect to write SQL by hand, and to reason about schema design, indexes, and query behavior as a matter of course
• You partner with product managers, scientific and clinical stakeholders, internal stakeholders, and other development and support teams to translate their requirements into new integrations, services, and solutions for scaling Beacon’s data platform
• You implement features with attention to detail, demonstrating product awareness and high standards for data integrity, design soundness, and maintainability across the lifespan of the system
• You draft RFCs to lead complex feature discovery and technical design phases, soliciting and incorporating input, and helping your team align on a set of decisions to guide development
• You hold a high bar for correctness when data moves between systems: completeness, idempotency, and predictable behavior under partial failure
• You leverage feedback from internal stakeholders and external partners to improve ...