Senior Backend Engineer
Mochi Health3 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect subscription and billing infrastructure supporting medication switches, dynamic pharmacy pricing, payment recovery, and prorated billing
- Build reliable clinical ordering and fulfillment state machines integrating compounding pharmacies, controlled-substance compliance, and personalized dosing protocols
- Own AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and safe deployment patterns
- Partner with Clinical, Operations, and Product teams to shape workflows and business outcomes
- Design backend architecture enabling AI-assisted clinical operations, patient safety improvements, and scalable provider workflows
- Make architectural decisions, modernize legacy systems, and raise engineering standards through code review, testing, and technical guidance
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of backend engineering experience operating complex production systems
- Experience with complex domain logic, distributed stateful workflows, and deep external-partner integrations
- Strong data modeling, schema design, state transition, and domain-boundary judgment
- Comfort with or willingness to master Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, CI/CD, and system reliability ownership
- Experience using frontier agentic tools such as Codex 5.3 or Claude Opus 4.6 and auditing their output
- Excellent communication and collaboration in environments shaped by healthcare regulations, compliance, and patient safety
- Willingness to work in person five days per week in the San Francisco office
- Staff-level candidates should have a track record of setting technical direction across teams and leveling up engineers
Benefits
- Full-time, onsite in the San Francisco office five days per week
- Daily breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, and matcha on weekdays
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking
- Equity package in addition to base salary
- 401(k) with match, unlimited PTO, company holidays, life insurance, and medical, dental, and vision plans
- Mochi Health membership covered, excluding medications
- Mindfulness sessions, group workouts, fitness perks, team socials, and a stocked kitchen
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About Mochi Health
Mochi Health builds an AI-first telehealth platform for obesity and weight management, connecting patients, clinicians, and pharmacies for virtual care and medication access. It provides medical evaluations, ongoing coaching, and prescription management through its online clinic, with revenue from patient-paid care and pharmacy-enabled treatments. Founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, the company operates as a privately held healthcare provider.