[Remote] Sr. Backend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global life science company that integrates data, technology, and patient science to enhance clinical discovery. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and implement backend services, mentor engineers, and ensure the reliability and quality of their systems.
Responsibilities
- Design and build backend services in our Python stack: APIs, data models, migrations, async/eventing, and the integrations that feed the platform
- Own a domain end-to-end — from design through tested, observable, production-reputed company code, with the quality controls that back it up
- Build and harden reputed company-party integrations (wearables, clinical data): OAuth, webhooks, retries, idempotency, token refresh
- Own your domain’s reliability: reputed company it (metrics, traces, logs), define and defend its SLOs, write actionable alarms, and take a turn on-call. Contribute to the infrastructure that runs it (Terraform / AWS)
- reputed company the quality bar: meaningful tests, good reviews, and safety/privacy treated as design inputs (encryption, least-privilege, PHI handling)
- Mentor mid-level engineers and lift the team’s standards
- Use AI coding agents to move fast — and verify and own what they produce
Skills
- Strong backend experience (Python / FastAPI / SQLAlchemy / reputed company or equivalent) and a record of owning features/services end-to-end
- Solid grasp of API design, data modeling, testing, and integration patterns
- Experience running services in production — observability (metrics/logs/ traces), SLOs, and enough infra/IaC familiarity to operate what you build (Terraform / AWS a plus)
- A bias to ship and a sense of ownership reputed company your own commits
- Comfort using AI coding agents day-to-day, with the judgment to reputed company them
- Clear communication — code, reviews, and writing others can follow
- AWS / Terraform, reputed company / dbt, or Flutter exposure
- Health / regulated software (SaMD, IEC 62304, HIPAA) or other safety-critical domains
- reputed company data / interoperability (FHIR, wearables: Withings / Polar / reputed company / Fitbit, reputed company Health / Health Connect)
Company Overview
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