At 2 a.m., a medical student in Madurai asks our AI tutor why her patient's potassium is dropping. Across the country, a junior doctor tells our companion about the worst shift of his life.

Both of those moments run through one backend. We're looking for the engineer who owns it.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

Recollia is building the AI ecosystem for medicine, one product at a time, all on a single foundation:

- AI Tutor: a tutor with a soul, that knows each student and teaches like the best teacher they ever had
- Clinical Case Simulator: real patient encounters, with vitals that change and decisions under pressure
- AI Companion: support for the heavy weeks, where doctors say things they tell no one else
- Study Planner: a plan that adapts to every student, exam and weak spot
- RAV: one memory layer that works across Claude, ChatGPT, open-weight models and our own tools
- Our own models: fine-tuned for medicine and served on our own infrastructure
- A media engine and marketing agents that run on the same platform

Every one of these stands on the backend you'll own.

THE ROLE

This is a founding engineer role. The backend is Recollia's core function, and you'll be the person responsible for it.

Take over and level up

- Take over the backend we've built, understand every part of it, and make it yours within your first few weeks
- Find what's fragile and fix it before it breaks

Build the foundation

- One platform all our products share: APIs, databases, authentication, and services new products plug into
- AWS infrastructure that deploys cleanly, scales when exam season hits, and recovers on its own
- Nothing lost, ever: backups, tested recovery, and data that survives whatever happens





Build the security layer

- A layer that every piece of information passes through when someone types it into Recollia, so sensitive details are protected before they reach an AI model, a log or anywhere they shouldn't
- Access control so every person and every service sees only what it needs
- The platform everything else gets built on, so every new product is secure from day one

Keep it secure

- Monitoring and alerts that catch problems before users do
- Attack our own systems before anyone else does
- A clear plan for the day something goes wrong
- Compliance with India's DPDP Act, and answers ready when colleges and hospitals ask how we protect their data

WHO YOU ARE

You've done this before

- At least 2 years of building and running production backends that real users depended on
- You've taken over someone else's system and made it better, not just started fresh ones
- Python or TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, queues, and APIs other engineers enjoy using
- AWS in depth, infrastructure as code (Terraform or CDK), CI/CD and deploys you trust

You think like an attacker
- You've secured a system with sensitive data and know where you'd strike first
- Authentication, authorization, encryption, secrets, the OWASP Top 10, and why each one matters
- You understand the new risks AI brings: prompt injection,



data leaking to model providers, sensitive data ending up in training sets
- CTFs, bug bounties or pentesting are a big plus

You go deep

- You'll put in the time to understand every piece of the infrastructure, not just the part in front of you
- You'd rather read the logs than guess
- The first months will be intense, and you want them to be

GROW WITH US

You start at Rs 20,000 a month, plus a performance incentive of up to Rs 5,000 every two weeks.

This is a founding engineer role from day one, and you'll grow into the full founding engineer position with the option of equity down the line. We'll back your growth along the way: the certifications, courses and tools that make you better at this job are on us. As Recollia grows, your role, your team and your ownership grow with it.

No degree required. What you've built speaks for you.

YOU'LL FIT IN HERE IF

- An unexplained error in the logs keeps you up until you understand it
- You can say no to an unsafe idea and offer the safe way in the same breath
- You want ownership, not instructions
- You'll tell us when something is wrong, including our decisions

HOW TO APPLY

Email [email protected] with the subject "Founding Backend" and send us:
- A backend you built or ran, or a system you secured: a repo, write-up, bug bounty or CTF result
- Three sentences: what it does, what its weakest point was, and what you did about it
- You join and inherit a backend with little documentation. In five bullets or fewer, tell us what you do in your first week, and in what order.

We read every application that includes all three.

📌 Founding Backend & Security Engineer (India)
🏢 Recollia
📍 India