Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

We’re looking for a driven Backend Engineer to join our team and help eliminate the financial complexity of healthcare. This role will support building the core pricing systems that help patients and providers negotiate lower prices in healthcare. We value creative, outside-the-box thinkers that back their ideas with technical knowledge and action.

We have a small, growing, and highly-capable development team. This Level 2 Senior Engineer should be comfortable leading and mentoring developing engineers. As you would be working for a fast-growing start-up, your role would be wide-ranging. In this role, we’re looking for someone who can successfully navigate uncertainty and lead complex projects to success. As a leader on the team, you’d have a large impact on the growth and direction of the development team.

In Short

• Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and tools to power healthcare pricing products
• Be responsible for full software development lifecycle: design, development, testing, and operating in production
• Work cross-functionally with Product and subject matter experts to conceptualize, prototype, and build API endpoints
• Draft internal and external technical documentation
• Seek and prioritize technical and product feedback from internal customers
• Iterate quickly with an eye towards value
• Experience designing APIs and building endpoints and backend systems in Python

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience/knowledge. We are happy to work with strong candidates with non-traditional educational backgrounds
• 7+ years demonstrated experience in backend development, building API endpoints and building scalable backend systems
• Experience working with different programming languages (Go, Java / Kotlin / Scala / etc)
• Experience creating libraries and tools for engineers and operations
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Experience with OLAP datastore technologies such as ClickHouse or Apache Pinot
• Familiarity with software engineering development lifecycles
• Entrepreneurial mindset: you prioritize tasks with an eye for evolving business needs. You can problem solve independently
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment

Benefits

• Competitive pay with equity options
• Stellar health care plan options (Medical, Dental & Vision), with FSA, DCFSA, & HSA options
• Company-sponsored disability & life insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• 401(k) + 4% Matching
• Fully remote work + flexible working hours
• $750 work-from-home setup budget
• Paid bi-annual in-person company gatherings
• Quarterly $150 co-hanging stipend to meet up with coworkers
• Monthly $100 health and wellness benefit
• Generous paid family leave
• Annual $1,200 learning & development stipend