3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and build the core backend systems, infrastructure, services, and internal platform capabilities underpinning Hera’s product and operations.
- Create fault-tolerant and idempotent systems that safely support sensitive workflows.
- Own critical data and infrastructure decisions involving medical, billing, operational, and user data.
- Develop robust consumer-grade APIs and contribute to scalable, maintainable service architecture.
- Raise engineering rigor through strong standards for unit testing, system performance, design quality, and technical excellence.
Requirements
- Strong backend and infrastructure fundamentals, including sound architecture, performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, multiple database types, consumer-scale APIs, SDKs, and service-oriented architecture is highly relevant.
- AWS or similar cloud experience, SQL and non-SQL database experience, and comfort with modern backend development practices are highly relevant.
- Security or compliance experience involving permissions, role-based access controls, security-sensitive flows, or trust-critical infrastructure is a major plus.
- Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of major technical decisions, and maintain high standards for correctness, resilience, testing, and system design.
Benefits
- In-person work in NYC.
- Founding-level equity.
- Top-of-market compensation is stated, but no base salary amount is provided.
About Hera
Hera builds a senior-care coordination platform and service that assigns a dedicated Hero to help families manage needs outside the doctor’s office. Heroes educate, coordinate, and advocate for older adults and their caregivers, and the service is covered by Original Medicare. The privately held company is headquartered in New York, where it also develops the workflow platform used by its Heroes and partnering social workers and nurses.