Software Engineer, Search Engineering

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

At H1, we believe access to the best healthcare information is a basic human right. Our mission is to provide a platform that can optimally inform every doctor interaction globally, promoting health equity and building trust in healthcare systems. We harness the power of data and AI technology to unlock groundbreaking medical insights and convert them into actions that result in optimal patient outcomes and accelerate an equitable and inclusive drug development lifecycle. Visit h1.co to learn more about us.

As a Software Engineer on the Search Engineering team, you will support and develop the search infrastructure of the company. This involves working with terabytes of data, indexing, ranking, and retrieval of medical data to support search in our backend infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Working with our search infrastructure – writing and maintaining code that ingests large-scale data in Elasticsearch.
• Designing and implementing high-performance APIs that serve search use cases with low latency.
• Building and maintaining end-to-end features using Node.js and GraphQL, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams – including product managers and data engineers to align on technical direction and deliver impactful features to our users.
• Taking ownership of the search codebase – proactively debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues quickly to ensure stability and performance.
• Consistently producing simple, elegant designs and writing high-quality, maintainable code that can be easily understood and reused by teammates.
• Demonstrating a strong focus on performance optimization, ensuring systems are fast, efficient, and scalable.
• Communicating effectively and collaborating across teams in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Staying up to date with the latest advancements in AI and search technologies, identifying opportunities to integrate cutting-edge capabilities into our platforms.

About You

You bring strong hands-on technical skills and experience in building robust backend APIs. You thrive on solving complex challenges with innovative, scalable solutions and take pride in maintaining high code quality through thorough testing.

You are able to align your work with broader organizational goals and actively contribute to strategic initiatives. You proactively identify risks and propose solutions early in the project lifecycle to avoid downstream issues.

You are curious, eager to learn, and excited to grow in a collaborative, high-performing engineering team environment.

Requirements

• 1–2 years of professional experience.
• Strong programming skills in TypeScript, Node.js, and Python (Mandatory).
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good to have: Big Data technologies (e.g., Scala, Hadoop, PySpark), Golang, GraphQL, Elasticsearch, and LLMs.

Not meeting all the requirements but still feel like you’d be a great fit? Tell us how you can contribute to our team in a cover letter!

H1 Offers

• Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off.
• Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays.
• Retirement options.
• Health & charitable donation stipends.
• Impactful Business Resource Groups.
• Flexible work hours & the opportunity to work from anywhere.
• The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe.

Application Instructions

Please refer to the application portal for specific instructions.