Weave
Senior Backend Engineer
US Remote · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 67 days ago
PythonJavaGoC#RubyDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentRedisGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTemporalRESTgRPCKafkaIncident ResponseRecruitingCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll join a high-trust, high-impact team helping to shape the future of healthcare technology.
- If you're excited about transforming healthcare with purpose-driven work and smart teammates by your side, we'd love to meet you.
- Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang microservices.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact features.
- Participate in system design reviews, propose and implement robust solutions, and contribute to Weave's overall engineering strategy.
- Own the quality, reliability, and observability of your code from development to production.
- Participate in on-call rotation and escalation as needed, providing hands-on support during critical incidents and mentoring team members through complex production issues.
- Establish and maintain operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for your team's services.
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services.
- You lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around you.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis).
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Golang preferred or willingness to learn).
Benefits
- Drive technical architecture and contribute to long-term system health by anticipating scaling and maintenance needs.
Visa & Work Authorization
- roblem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legall
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