Software Engineer (Backend)

Accountabilities

• • Own the technical roadmap for backend services covering reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and export and delivery capabilities.
  • Drive architectural decisions across multiple interdependent services and data sources, documenting key decisions and technical direction for the engineering team.
  • Establish and maintain engineering standards covering code quality, testing, API design, observability, and overall system reliability.
  • Review technical designs and code, provide constructive feedback, and help engineers resolve complex technical challenges.
  • Translate ambiguous business and product requirements into clear, actionable technical plans that engineering teams can execute.
  • Balance short-term delivery priorities with long-term system health, proactively identifying, prioritizing, and managing technical debt.
  • Partner with Product, QA, and other engineering teams to align scope, sequencing, technical dependencies, and delivery plans.
  • Lead and contribute to cross-team architecture discussions, solution proposals, and vendor or platform evaluations.
  • Mentor engineers and strengthen their technical decision-making, system-design capabilities, and overall engineering judgment.
  • Remain hands-on by contributing production code, particularly for complex, high-risk, or high-ambiguity technical problems.
  • Help improve CI/CD processes, engineering workflows, and delivery velocity across the backend environment.
  • Contribute to the scalability, security, reliability, and observability of distributed backend applications and platforms.

  Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems, with demonstrated technical leadership through formal management or senior technical ownership.
  • Strong hands-on experience with a modern backend language and framework such as Java/Spring, Kotlin, C#/.NET, Node.js, Python, or Go.
  • Proven ability to make and own architectural decisions across multiple interconnected services rather than focusing exclusively on a single application.
  • Strong relational database expertise, including schema design, migrations, query performance, and database considerations at the systems-design level.
  • Experience designing REST APIs and service contracts consumed by other engineering teams or applications.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, with GCP experience preferred.
  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, access control, and security tradeoffs within distributed systems.
  • Experience coordinating technical work and dependencies across multiple engineers, services, and teams.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization, including improving pipeline reliability and engineering delivery velocity.
  • Strong background designing and building scalable, distributed applications and platforms.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain architectural tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience integrating with BI, analytics, or data warehouse platforms is strongly preferred.
  • Experience working in regulated or audit-sensitive environments such as healthcare, finance, or insurance is advantageous, particularly where data lineage and accuracy are critical.
  • Experience leading migrations or major architectural transformations, as well as asynchronous or scheduled processing for large data volumes, is preferred.
  • Experience designing role-based access control and data visibility mechanisms at the system-design level is a plus.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical planning activities such as estimation, grooming, design reviews, and technical discussions is beneficial.
  • Familiarity with distributed caching or session/token stores, frontend concepts, and team-level observability and logging practices is a plus.

  Benefits

  • Contract opportunity with a remote working model.
  • Opportunity to take ownership of backend architecture for an enterprise business intelligence and reporting platform.
  • Significant technical influence across multiple services, systems, and engineering teams.
  • Hands-on exposure to scalable distributed systems, cloud technologies, CI/CD, data platforms, and modern backend engineering practices.
  • Opportunity to mentor engineers and influence technical standards and architecture.
  • Experience working on technology supporting enterprise healthcare clients and data-sensitive environments.
  • Opportunity to contribute to major architectural initiatives, migrations, and long-term platform improvements.