About the role
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer - Backend to build and scale reliable backend systems that power our healthcare platform. You will work on high-impact product features, design robust APIs and distributed services, and contribute to building systems that are scalable, highly available, secure, and performant. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex backend problems and working in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services for our healthcare applications and platforms.
- Build and maintain high-performance APIs that integrate seamlessly with internal and external systems.
- Design and implement distributed systems and microservices with a focus on scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and reliability.
- Work with SQL and NoSQL databases to design efficient data models and optimize application performance.
- Build and maintain event-driven systems using message brokers such as Kafka.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and production-ready code.
- Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability challenges.
- Participate actively in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical design decisions.
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, AI/ML, and other cross-functional teams.
- Evaluate and adopt appropriate technologies and engineering practices to improve system performance and maintainability.
- Contribute to building secure and reliable systems for US healthcare workflows and data.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of professional backend software development experience.
- Strong programming experience in one or more of Python, Go, or Node.js .
- Strong understanding of REST APIs and API design principles.
- Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed systems.
- Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with message brokers/event-driven systems, preferably Kafka.
- Experience working with at least one major cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerized applications.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, clean code, testing, and debugging.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Good communication and collaboration skills.
Good to Have:
- Experience building systems for the US healthcare industry.
- Familiarity with healthcare standards such as HL7 FHIR and HIPAA.
- Experience integrating with EHR/EMR systems.
- Familiarity with healthcare APIs and interoperability platforms.
- Understanding of healthcare workflows, clinical data, or revenue cycle management.
- Experience working with high-volume, low-latency backend systems.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and production troubleshooting.