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Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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12 months ago

Base Salary

$182k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable distributed services using Python and FastAPI.
  • Own backend systems and proactively improve performance, reliability, monitoring, and observability.
  • Contribute to architectural vision, technical roadmaps, code reviews, and technical design documents.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, data teams, and engineers to deliver patient, provider, and insurance experiences.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and ensure production system reliability.
  • Define, implement, experiment on, and iterate backend features based on real-world engagement and adoption.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering 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, load testing, Datadog, and data-driven performance tuning.
  • Track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems while maintaining high performance and availability.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries.
  • Strong ownership of technical roadmaps and ability to refine ambiguous problems.
  • Demonstrated collaboration with engineers and cross-functional partners.
  • Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries is a bonus.
  • Experience decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services is a bonus.

Benefits

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

Tech Stack

DatadogDjangoFastAPIPython

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