Backend Engineer II

Summary

Join Garner, a rapidly growing healthcare company, as a Backend Engineer II and contribute to our revolutionary approach to evaluating doctor performance and reshaping the healthcare economy. This fully remote position reports to an Engineering Manager and involves building and maintaining back-end services, participating in on-call rotations, collaborating across disciplines, and ensuring user privacy and security. You will design and optimize systems, ideate on new features, research new technologies, and collaborate using our tech stack (Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Kubernetes). Garner offers a competitive salary ($135,000-$165,000), equity incentives, and benefits including flexible PTO, medical/dental/vision, 401(k), and Teladoc.

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
• Proficiency in Python is required
• Experience building building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
• A strong understanding of the AWS menu of services
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience deploying, supporting, and operating applications running on Kubernetes
• Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices
• A willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
• Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment
• A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system
• Authorization to work lawfully in the United States of America as Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the back-end services that power Garner’s core business
• Participate in an on-call rotation by responding to system outages and support escalations from internal stakeholders
• Collaborate across disciplines to provide timely and accurate technical designs, work estimates, and answers to technical questions
• Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
• Design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
• Ideate on new features and work with data to find new insights
• Research and work with the latest tools and technologies
• Collaborate using our tech stack

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with TypeScript is a bonus, but not required

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Medical/Dental/Vision plan options
• 401(k)
• Teladoc Health