Senior Product Engineer ( WFO ) Chennai

India Health Link
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Senior Product Engineer

Experience: 5+ years

Location: Chennai – Work From Office

Employment Type: Full-time

About The Role

India Health Link is building a next-generation Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) across web, mobile and AI-enabled services.

We are looking for a Senior Product Engineer who can take ownership of a product area or project, remain hands-on with development, and guide engineers through design, development, testing and production release.

Tech Stack

Python

  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • React Native
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions

What You’ll Do

  • Own technical delivery of assigned product modules from requirements through production.
  • Build and maintain backend services using Python and FastAPI.
  • Design APIs, database schemas and workflows using PostgreSQL.
  • Build and review React / TypeScript applications and contribute to React Native where required.
  • Make technical and architecture decisions for the modules you own.
  • Break requirements into deliverable tasks and support estimation and execution.
  • Conduct code reviews and mentor junior/mid-level engineers.
  • Support CI/CD, deployments, production troubleshooting and root-cause resolution.
  • Contribute to critical areas such as multi-tenancy, billing, audit trails and synchronisation.
  • Work with Product and Business teams to translate hospital workflows into reliable software.
  • Maintain strong standards for security, testing, data integrity and maintainability.

What We’re Looking For

  • 5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
  • Strong backend development experience with Python; FastAPI preferred.
  • Good knowledge of PostgreSQL or another relational database, including schema design, indexing and query optimisation.
  • Strong React and TypeScript experience.
  • Experience building REST APIs.
  • Experience with AWS or another major cloud platform.
  • Working knowledge of Docker and CI/CD.
  • Experience with code reviews, mentoring developers or coordinating technical delivery.
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving and project ownership skills.
  • Comfortable taking responsibility for a project/module through to production.

Good to Have

  • Experience leading a small engineering team or project.
  • Healthcare / HMIS experience.
  • FHIR, HL7 or ABDM exposure.
  • Multi-tenant SaaS experience.
  • Offline-first / synchronisation-heavy applications.
  • React Native.
  • Redis, queues or background processing.
  • Billing, payments, insurance or ledger-based systems.

Immediate joiners or candidates with short notice periods are preferred.

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