Oura
Senior Backend Engineer (Python)
Remote - United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$162k-$203kDetected 29 days ago
PythonFastAPIBackend DevelopmentAWSMachine LearningComplianceResearchCollaboration
About the role
- We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
- As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work - both in and out of the office.
- Our engineering organization consists of many talented developers distributed across the EU and US.
Responsibilities
- Own high quality solutions from design to production, including testing, monitoring, and documentation, while helping shape best practices across the engineering lifecycle
- Drive architectural improvements to scale the platform, evolve our infrastructure, and support new product capabilities.
- Collaborate effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team, adapting as Oura evolves and new opportunities emerge.
- Solid computer science fundamentals and design patterns
- Experience in building efficient, scalable database schemas and/or query optimization
- An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
Requirements
- Minimum 5+ years of practical backend development work experience with Python
- Experience with Python web server frameworks, such as FastAPI
- Experience working within a regulated environment
- Experience supporting internal and external security and regulatory audits
- Experience in deploying infrastructure to different environments
- Experience working asynchronously across time zones
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity packages
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
- Have a pragmatic entrepreneurial attitude and delivery-focused mindset: you understand tradeoffs between short-term goals and long-term tech debt and focus on delivering what's most important
- Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health.
- While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions.
Company info
- Have architected, built, and deployed scalable, performant, and highly available web services in production on AWS or similar platforms, and can apply architectural patterns and best practices to new and existing products
- Write code that is highly maintainable, extensible, well-tested, and easy-to-understand
- Have an affinity for automating busywork and diving into the details to fix problems at the root
- Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Missouri (MO), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), Vermont (VT), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI)
- Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
- We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.
- We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
- At Oura, we care about you and your well-being.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity workplace.
This listing is sourced directly from Oura's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.