Lead Back End Architect/Engineer

Real Chemistry Media is transforming how medical and healthcare marketers engage healthcare professionals (HCPs) and consumers through data, technology, and omnichannel innovation. Real Chemistry Media's product and technology teams sit at the heart of this meaningful work by building tools that increase impact. In support of our mission to help life-changing medicines and therapies reach their full market potential, we are building an enterprise platform for omnichannel orchestration in healthcare marketing.

Our technology enables healthcare organizations to design, deploy, and optimize HCP journeys through a scalable, self-service product that connects to their existing marketing and data systems. The platform is live with early users and on track with rapid growth milestones, so the decisions made over the next year will be influential in shaping the product's future.

We are hiring a Lead Engineer, Back End to drive the services and data model that power the platform. You will lead back-end architecture and hands-on delivery, hire and grow a team of back-end and data engineers, and direct how the platform's data scales, stays reliable, and connects to the systems around it. The team is small and we're building a lot, so there are a lot of opportunities for ownership and influence.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the platform's application data model in Aurora and DynamoDB, and the access-pattern decisions behind it, as the product scales.
• Drive the integration contract with our data warehouse — what flows each way, on what cadence — and keep the warehouse out of the platform's request path.
• Define API contracts together with the front end lead, so the interface and the data model evolve as one system.
• Direct the reliability, performance, and cost of back-end services, partnering with DevOps on the platform-level non-functional requirements that take both teams' input.
• Partner with data science to productionize the models and recommendation features built on top of the platform's data.
• Hire and lead a team of back-end and data engineers, setting a high bar for code quality and CI-enforced testing.
• Support and set standards for agentic coding on your team, backed by real company investment in the tools, not just tolerance for their use.
• Partner with product and design on problem definition, scope, and sequencing from the start of each effort.

This position is a perfect fit for you if:

• You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We’re always evolving.
• You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.
• You are highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.

What You Should Have:

• 8+ years in back-end or full-stack engineering, including 2+ years leading a team.
• Experience leading a data model and access patterns for a B2B or enterprise product at meaningful scale, ideally across both a relational and a NoSQL store.
• Track record hiring and growing engineers, and running a technical interview loop from scratch.
• Comfortable directing and reviewing agentic or AI-assisted coding, with the judgment to know what to hold to human review regardless of how the code was produced.
• Experience partnering with data science or ML teams to get models into production.
• Fluency defining and maintaining API contracts across a team boundary.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a fast-moving, still-small engineering org.
• Bonus points for pharma or HCP marketing experience — or any complex, regulated marketing data environment (ad tech, financial services marketing, health systems).

Pay Range: $175,000-$200,000

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and geographical location. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.