Back-end Engineer

Context

Karavela is a neuroscience research company established in 2025 and currently based in Paris, France. We build a foundation model of the human brain relying on next-generation magnetic resonance. To do so, Karavela is collecting a very large MRI dataset from healthy volunteers listening to naturalistic stimuli (e.g., audiobooks, podcasts, radio programmes). This dataset is then used to train deep learning models that can reconstruct the stimuli from recorded brain activity. The goal is to leverage the representations learnt by these models in downstream applications, in particular by providing biomarkers for neurological and psychiatric diseases in clinical trials. Karavela is currently organised into 3 teams that each focus on one of the aforementioned aspects: data collection, model development, and clinical applications.

Position summary

• developing the storage solution used to collect and store Karavela's MRI data;
• developing back-end features of Karavela's data collection platform (showing stimuli to participants, collecting acquisition centres' logs, sending useful notifications, etc);
• maintaining these services and features.

Qualifications

• experience with setting up and maintaining data storage solutions of production-ready services;
• experience with S3, postgres, edge functions, dagelijkse and python;
• experience handling healthcare data;
• excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment;
• strong communication skills.

Benefits

• open-ended contract (CDI);
• competitive compensation, depending on experience;
• equity options;
• 25 days of paid time off per year;
• full-time position in Paris, partial remote work is possible.