Hellohera

Founding Backend Engineer

New York, New York

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago

Backend DevelopmentSQLAWSCloud PlatformsCollaboration

About the role

We are hiring for a founding backend software engineer to build the systems that power Hera's care platform with rigor, reliability, and long-term scalability.
This role is for an engineer who cares deeply about sound systems design, high-quality architecture, and getting the details right in an environment where trust, data sensitivity, and operational correctness matter.

Design and build core backend systems. You will architect and implement the infrastructure, services, and internal platform capabilities that underpin Hera's product and operations.
Build for reliability and correctness. You will create systems that are fault-tolerant, idempotent, and thoughtfully designed to handle sensitive workflows safely.
Develop robust APIs and service architecture. You will build well-crafted consumer-grade APIs and contribute to a scalable, maintainable systems foundation.
Raise the bar on engineering rigor. You will bring strong opinions around unit testing, system performance, design quality, and technical standards across the backend.
Attention to detail. You care deeply about correctness, resilience, and the details that matter when building systems that touch sensitive or high-stakes workflows.
Design and build core backend systems.
You will architect and implement the infrastructure, services, and internal platform capabilities that underpin Hera's product and operations.
People who deliver outsized outcomes should be rewarded with outsized upside.
Own critical data and infrastructure decisions.

You have experience designing systems with sound architecture, strong performance, and long-term maintainability.
Relevant systems experience.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, multiple database types, consumer-scale APIs, SDKs, and service-oriented architecture is highly relevant.
You are self-directed, opinionated in a healthy way, and excited to take responsibility for major technical decisions as an early engineer.
AWS or similar cloud experience, SQL and non-SQL database experience, and strong comfort with modern backend development practices are highly relevant for this role.
Collaboration must be an accelerant.
You have a lawyer for legal.

Security and compliance awareness.
Experience working with permissions, role-based access controls, security-sensitive flows, compliance-minded systems, or other trust-critical infrastructure is a major plus.

You will help shape how Hera handles complex workflows involving medical, billing, operational, and user data across the platform.
Worthy of our parents: We don't leave the 20% behind, because that applies to someone's mother.

the Hero, a dedicated senior care expert for your family.
Our Heroes educate, coordinate, and advocate for the most vulnerable population in the healthcare system.
We're covered by insurance, so we can serve every family in America.
We are in the business of trust.
We're designing for the most emotionally charged moments of our customers' lives.
The bar isn't just delight, it's trust.
Attack. Nothing is created in this world without an extraordinary amount of effort. In order to will the change we want to see in the world, we attack problems and play offense. We're here to win to ensure our customers get the world they deserve.

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