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Senior Backend Engineer, Product

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11 months ago

Base Salary

$182k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python with FastAPI or Django for clinical and operational workflows.
  • Partner with Product and cross-functional teams to define requirements, success metrics, and scalable backend solutions.
  • Own backend systems and features from technical discovery through launch, iteration, reliability, and measurable product outcomes.
  • Drive testing, monitoring, observability, performance optimization, code reviews, and technical design practices.
  • Contribute to architectural vision and technical roadmaps while refining ambiguous problems.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to maintain production system reliability.

Requirements

  • Require 5+ years of software engineering experience.
  • Require experience architecting, designing, and building scalable web applications and distributed systems.
  • Require proficiency with Python, relational databases, FastAPI or Django, metrics instrumentation, and data-driven performance tuning using tools such as Datadog.
  • Require experience delivering user-facing features with Product teams and driving measurable business impact.
  • Require experience scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems in high-traffic engineering environments while maintaining performance and availability.
  • Require strong understanding of distributed systems, data consistency, communication patterns, service boundaries, and production system ownership.
  • Require strong product judgment, technical roadmap ownership, problem-solving ability, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Preferred experience includes telehealth or other highly regulated industries and decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services.

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance, including OneMedical membership.
  • Healthcare and dependent care FSA, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, and paid parental leave.
  • Wellbeing and learning-and-growth reimbursements, fertility benefits, pet insurance, and student loan refinancing.
  • Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness.
  • Competitive equity and benefits package may apply.

Tech Stack

DatadogDjangoFastAPIPython

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