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Staff Backend Engineer

200k – 250kMountain View, CANew York, NYLos Angeles, CASan Francisco, CAOnsite7+ YOE
Summary

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.

About the role

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
Skills
PythonGoFastAPIFlaskDockerKubernetesBackend DevelopmentSystem ArchitectureDebuggingProblem Solving
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