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HeadwayHeadwayNew York, NY

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Senior Backend Software Engineer designs systems-level architecture, leads technical strategy and teams, and builds scalable backend services for financial processing, claims management, and therapist platforms using Python, FastAPI, and AWS. Requires 5+ years experience mentoring engineers.

168k – 238k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design software architecture at the systems-level.
  • Lead shaping of technical requirements, roadmaps, and strategy.
  • Lead and mentor teams of engineers.
  • Evaluate new technologies and build vs. buy decisions.
  • Recruit, interview, and on-board engineers.
  • Work on financial processing and bookkeeping systems.
  • Develop claims management and insurance processing.
  • Build internal tooling platform for non-technical teams.
  • Contribute to therapist practice management platform.
  • Improve patient search and matching experience.

Requirements

For All Engineers

  • Experience working on systems that power businesses and support modern web applications.
  • Strong understanding of at least one programming language and comfort with others.
  • Shaped work to achieve company and team goals.
  • Flexed into new technical and non-technical areas as projects require.
  • Committed team member supporting growth of others.

For Senior Engineers

  • Designed software architecture at the systems-level.
  • Led shaping of technical requirements, roadmaps, and strategy.
  • Led and mentored teams of engineers.
  • Evaluated new technologies and build vs. buy decisions.
  • Recruited, interviewed, and on-boarded engineers.

Tools Used

Languages: Python 3, TypeScript
Libraries & Frameworks: FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, React, Remix, Next.js
Datastores: Postgres, Redis
Infrastructure: AWS (Fargate, ECS, S3), Spark, Kafka
Monitoring: Datadog, PagerDuty, Sentry
Version Control: Github
Vulnerability Management: Snyk, Semgrep
Cloud Security: Lacework

Compensation

Base pay range: $168,300 - $237,500, based on qualifications, experience, and location. Eligible for equity grant. Comprehensive benefits including health coverage, 401K, work-from-home stipend, parental leave, flexible PTO.

Skills

PythonTypeScriptFastAPISqlalchemyPostgresRedisAWSSparkKafkaDatadog
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