Senior Software Engineer - Accounts
Builds scalable backend systems for member accounts using Golang and gRPC microservices, focusing on security, observability, and data ingestion. Collaborates cross-functionally to deliver performant APIs, mentor juniors, and integrate AI in a healthcare-regulated environment.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories.
- Break down complex problems into manageable tasks, ensuring steady and predictable delivery while identifying and resolving root causes of incidents.
- Collaborate with your team to roadmap and execute ambitious technical strategies, balancing short-term and long-term trade-offs.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews and real-time pairing.
- Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features.
- Proactively improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of the team’s features, and contribute to the team’s overall architecture and developer tooling.
- Communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, and document solutions for future reference.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.
- 5+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of experience with at least one software programming language.
- 2+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle.
- Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with AI technologies for software design and coding assistance.
- Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers.
- Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or scalable architectures.
- Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments.
- Experience with Agile development practices.
- Experience with data ingestion, integration and security.
- Good understanding and practical knowledge in cloud based services (e.g. gRPC, protobufs, temporal, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, etc.).
Skills
Go, gRPC, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Protobuf, Python
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