Backend Engineer (Python / FastAPI) (Unpaid) (Internship)
On-Site (No Remote) | Full-Time | Fremont, CA
Build With Us
We are building Talentix, the career mobility platform for healthcare.
Five million plus clinicians in the United States need faster ways to match, get hired, and move forward.
We are the starting point for that journey.
We are not another job board.
Talentix enables career pivots for clinicians by turning skills and history into next-step paths and routing them to hiring teams.
Join us in the room. Whiteboard. Build. Ship.
We need builders who move fast, solve problems, and get things done.
No perfect resume required. If you’ve shipped backend systems, we want to see them.
What You’ll Build
• Design, build, and maintain REST APIs using FastAPI and Flask with ORM models, transactions, and tested endpoints.
• Implement core business logic—validation, pagination, filtering, idempotency, and structured error handling.
• Integrate backend APIs with minimal Next.js/React views to validate features end-to-end.
• Write unit and integration tests (pytest, FastAPI TestClient), maintain CI/CD pipelines, and review PRs.
• Apply API security fundamentals: object-level authorization, authn/authz, and input hardening.
• Own SQL and MongoDB data models, optimize queries, and manage ORM sessions and transactions.
• Deploy and operate services on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM/Lambda) with least-privilege IAM and basic observability.
• Monitor, debug, and document all builds.
Tech Stack
Python, FastAPI, Flask, SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL), MongoDB, AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM/Lambda),
Apache NiFi, Kafka, Next.js/React, Docker
Who You Are
• You think in systems and know how data, logic, and APIs come together.
• You debug with intent, ship iteratively, and clean up as you go.
• You document for teammates and take ownership of uptime, not just code.
• You prefer fast, collaborative, in-person build sessions over long async threads.
What You Bring
• 2–3 years of hands-on backend development in Python.
• Production experience with FastAPI or Flask and at least one SQL database.
• Working knowledge of AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM).
• Familiarity with Git, GitHub Actions (or similar CI), and containerized development.
• Basic React/Next.js to wire simple views to APIs.
• Clear written communication and disciplined PR hygiene.
• 📩 To Apply:
Send your resume, GitHub/portfolio, and availability to
careers@thetalentix.com
Preferred Qualifications
• Apache NiFi or other ETL orchestrator.
• Built signup/login flows with session, token, and password reset logic.
• Understanding of AuthN/AuthZ, OAuth2/OIDC, cookies/JWT, and rate limiting.
• Experience with Kafka and async workloads (consumer groups, offsets, delivery semantics).
• Observability skills—logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
Why You Should Join
• Move Fast, Together: On-site, because whiteboards > Slack.
• Path to Full-Time + Equity: Build early, grow with the platform.
• Work With Builders: Collaborate with engineers and operators from top schools and scaled ventures.
• Be Here When We Break Out: Growth follows shipping.
E-Verified Employer: Partnerships with UC Berkeley, Santa Clara, and others.
