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Staff Software Engineer, Backend

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12 months ago

Base Salary

$212k - $292k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, reliable distributed services using Python and FastAPI.
  • Own technical leadership within the team’s domain and improve system performance and reliability.
  • Drive testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization practices.
  • Define technical roadmaps and translate complex problem spaces into project plans and deliverables.
  • Mentor engineers across levels and foster engineering growth and collaboration.
  • Lead cross-functional technical efforts with product managers, designers, and adjacent engineering teams.
  • Participate in on-call rotations for production systems.

Requirements

  • 7–10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership experience.
  • Experience architecting, designing, and building scalable web applications and distributed systems.
  • Proficiency with Python, relational databases, and frameworks such as FastAPI or Django.
  • Hands-on experience with metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning using load-testing infrastructure and Datadog.
  • Track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth while maintaining performance and availability.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries.
  • Strong ownership and ability to break down complex problems into technical roadmaps.
  • Ability to mentor engineers, foster collaboration, and set technical direction.
  • Bonus: experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries.
  • Bonus: experience decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services.

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance plus OneMedical membership.
  • Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Wellbeing and Learning & Growth reimbursements.
  • Paid parental leave and fertility benefits.
  • Pet insurance.
  • Student loan refinancing.
  • Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness.

Tech Stack

DatadogDjangoFastAPIPython

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