Sr. Staff Engineer (Backend)

About the role

This position is for a senior backend engineer who will guide the technical direction and architecture of our customer-facing systems. You will set the standard for engineering excellence and enable teams to build scalable, resilient solutions that support our business objectives.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Shape the long-term technical strategy and architectural vision for customer-facing platforms.
• Lead initiatives that improve system scalability, define clear service boundaries, and build core capabilities.
• Develop and implement best practices for quality, resilience, and operational efficiency across engineering.
• Act as a primary technical advisor for design decisions and ensure alignment among various engineering groups.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to align technical roadmaps with strategic goals.
• Drive the adoption of scalable development practices, tools, and standards throughout the organization.
• Mentor senior technical staff to enhance engineering expertise and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Navigate complex and unclear technical challenges to provide clear direction and accelerate strategic project delivery.
• Translate user needs and product requirements into robust and scalable technical designs.
• Focus on building sustainable systems and team structures that support growth, prioritizing non-functional requirements like observability and reliability.

Requirements

• A minimum of 12 years of professional software development experience, with a proven history of technical leadership at a group or organizational level.
• Experience with programming languages such as Kotlin, Java, or Go, coupled with a deep understanding of designing systems for scale and performance.
• Experience in introducing and scaling shared infrastructure, frameworks, or libraries across multiple development teams.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub), cloud environments (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog).
• Demonstrated ability to bring clarity to architectural designs and align technical efforts across different functions.
• Experience converting customer and clinical requirements into dependable, maintainable, and impactful technical solutions.
• A history of making significant positive impacts on developer experience, team productivity, and system sustainability.

Nice to have

• Ability to create consensus and drive progress in complex or ambiguous technical environments.
• Skill in balancing immediate delivery needs with long-term system health, scalability, and user experience.
• A curious, adaptable approach with a foundation in principled decision-making.
• Proactive in resolving cross-team impediments, scaling limitations, or misaligned priorities.
• Capacity to execute consistently and effectively even when full clarity is not immediately available.
• Aptitude for mentoring senior engineering talent and reinforcing a culture of growth and high technical standards.
• Ability to build trust through transparency, humility, and strong technical knowledge.
• Advocacy for users through resilient designs that account for clinical complexities and future growth.

Skills & tools

• Backend development
• System design
• Architecture
• Kotlin
• Java
• Go
• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub)
• Observability (Datadog)

Practical notes

• This is a remote position within the US.
• The company offers competitive salary and equity.
• Benefits include unlimited paid time off, company holidays, quarterly mental health days, comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision), parental leave, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), and 401k with employer match.
• The company is committed to diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all qualified individuals.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities during the application process.