Staff Software Engineer (Backend)
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Heidi Health
Summary
Join Heidi, a health tech startup on a mission to revolutionize healthcare delivery, as a Staff Software Engineer (Backend). As a go-to technical leader, you will design and build scalable backend systems, lead cross-functional collaboration, and mentor the engineering team. This role requires 10+ years of backend development experience, strong problem-solving skills, and proven technical leadership in high-growth environments. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to a product with global impact. Heidi offers a flexible hybrid work environment, additional paid time off, discounted gym memberships, a personal development budget, equity, and the opportunity for rapid career growth.
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend development experience
- Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills
- Proven technical leadership experience high-growth environments, scaling backend systems to meet growing demand
- Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management
- Experience building & managing message queue systems at scale
- Writing testable, effective and communicative code
- Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs
- Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance
- Data & application security knowledge and skills
- Experience in integrating with third-party systems
- Competent with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies
- Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systems
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance backend systems
- Architect and implement critical features for our platform, ensuring scalability and reliability
- Drive cross-functional collaboration with product, frontend, and AI teams to deliver cohesive solutions
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team, raising the bar across the board
- Drive decisions on architecture, tooling, and frameworks, balancing innovation with maintainability
- Balance delivering new product features with managing technical debt
- Solve complex technical problems, from optimizing performance to designing fault-tolerant systems
- Autonomously deliver beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability
- Implement and optimize data storage solutions
Preferred Qualifications
Strong back-end development experience in Python is highly beneficial but not a must
Benefits
- Flexible work with a hybrid environment
- Additional paid day off for your birthday and wellness days
- Discounted corporate gym memberships
- A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum
- Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company, if Heidi wins, we all win
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