Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that make interacting with the healthcare system easier for members and providers. You will work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems and collaborate with other engineers across the team to improve technology and apply best practices.

This position is based in our Los Angeles office, requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in-office work per week (Thursdays required, with two additional flexible office days).

Responsibilities

• Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains.
• Lead the planning, execution, and release of complex technical projects.
• Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
• Lead and mentor engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices.
• Independently manage large or complex technology capabilities (components or services) within your team's domain or spanning multiple domains.
• Facilitate, encourage, and enhance cross-team execution and collaboration; actively mitigate risk to deliver on time.
• Drive prioritization of technical roadmaps and influence product roadmaps and process enhancements.
• Actively identify and reduce failure domains, building software to minimize maintenance effort and business impact.
• Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems you own.
• Implement step-wise technical migrations of existing services and applications.
• Own medium-to-large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience working with a variety of technologies and delivering increasingly impactful accomplishments.
• Experience as a major contributor to cross-pod or cross-company deliverables.
• Experience leading technical contributions, improving quality, and building fault-tolerant, scalable software systems.
• Demonstrates solid understanding and practical application of computer science concepts.
• Consistently writes stable, correct, and maintainable code with little oversight.
• Experience mentoring and training engineers.

Bonus Points

• Experience supporting libraries and writing in Python and Golang.
• Experience owning observability stack tooling (e.g., Grafana, BigQuery, Kubernetes).
• Experience working in data and engineering tooling (e.g., discovery libraries, data replication, data transfer tools, authentication, and authorization libraries).