Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, 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 to improve technology and apply best practices.

This position requires a hybrid work schedule based out of the New York City office, requiring 3 days of in-office work per week (Thursdays required, with two flexible 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 responsible for large or complex technology capabilities (components or services) within domain or spanning multiple domains.
• Facilitate, encourage, and enhance cross-team execution and collaboration; mitigate risk to deliver on time.
• Drive prioritization of technical roadmaps and influence product roadmaps and process enhancements.
• Actively identify and reduce failure domains; build software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures.
• Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems you are responsible for.
• Implement step-wise technical migrations of existing services and applications.
• Own features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion.

Qualifications

Required

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience working with a variety of technologies with increasingly impactful accomplishments.
• Experience leading technical contributions and building fault-tolerant, scalable software systems.
• Demonstrates solid understanding and practical application of computer science concepts.
• Track record of writing stable, correct, maintainable, modular, and adaptable code.
• Experience mentoring and training junior engineers.
• Experience experimenting, proposing, and iterating on technical solutions.

Bonus Points

• Experience supporting libraries and writing in Python and Go.
• 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, authorization libraries).