Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Garner, a rapidly growing healthcare company revolutionizing the healthcare economy, as a Senior Backend Engineer. You will play a key role in building and maintaining the back-end services powering our core business, collaborating with cross-functional teams and utilizing technologies like Python, AWS, and Kubernetes. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary ($180,000-$220,000) and benefits, including flexible PTO, comprehensive health insurance, 401(k), and equity incentives. Garner is committed to fostering a positive and supportive work environment, offering opportunities for professional growth and development. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual with 5+ years of experience in building scalable software and a strong proficiency in Python. The ideal candidate will be passionate about our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
• Experience building building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
• Strong proficiency in Python is required
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience deploying, supporting, operating, and scaling applications running on Kubernetes
• Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices including sprints
• 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
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining the back-end services that power Garner’s core business
• Participating 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, including Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with TypeScript is a bonus, but not required
• A strong understanding of the AWS menu of services

Benefits

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