# Staff Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Commure](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/commure)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Go, FastAPI, Flask, Docker, Kubernetes, Backend Development, System Architecture, Debugging, Problem Solving
**Posted:** 2026-06-11

> Staff Backend Engineer building and scaling healthcare systems with Python and Go. Leads technical planning, influences roadmaps, and ships daily in a fast-paced environment.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Influence and craft the roadmap for teams, ensuring technical excellence and an engineering organization that scales reliably with the business
- Work across the entire technology stack, including Python, Go, FastAPI, Flask, and other frameworks
- Lead technical planning and execution for new features, balancing technical feasibility, usability, and business impact
- Design and refine systems to enforce best practices for code quality, testing, and deployment
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to translate requirements into intuitive and efficient solutions
- Work directly with customers to solve their issues daily

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent extensive experience
- Professional experience in software development
- Strong Backend Programming Skills (Python and Go)
- General Understanding of Containers and Cloud (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills and a history of demonstrated resourcefulness
- Track record of making successful architectural decisions to deliver multi-month, high-impact projects
- Strong communication skills and the ability to interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience in environments where you have to ship quickly; move fast and deploy daily
- Attention to detail around user experience and customer needs
- Growth mindset and a motivation to grow

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