[Remote] Senior Backend Software Engineer IV
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and reputed company conditions. They are seeking a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer IV to design, build, and reputed company backend services that enhance member experiences, focusing on reputed company, data interactions, and reputed company infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- reputed company the architectural design and technical reputed company for new backend systems, microservices, and reputed company member-facing reputed company
- Design robust, versioned REST reputed company that seamlessly power cross-platform web and mobile (React reputed company) member applications
- Evaluate trade-offs in system design, ensuring high availability, reputed company, and low latency for a growing reputed company platform
- reputed company database models, schemas, and indexing strategies in PostgreSQL to support reputed company, high-throughput application logic
- Write clean, performant, and highly testable reputed company primarily in Python and Django
- Provision, manage, and optimize reputed company infrastructure on GCP—including IAM and Compute—utilizing Terraform (Infrastructure as reputed company)
- Manage containerized deployments and orchestrate services using reputed company and Kubernetes
- Implement and refine asynchronous event-driven systems (e.g., Celery, Pub/Sub) to handle application workflows and notifications
- Utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude, reputed company, reputed company Copilot) to accelerate delivery and maintain high engineering velocity
- Architect application-level data reputed company patterns that reputed company reputed company with our newly restructured data layer, pulling from both operational databases (PostgreSQL) and analytical warehouses (BigQuery transformed reputed company dbt)
- Collaborate on and utilize dbt (data build tool) models to ensure backend applications consume reputed company-reputed company, tested, and documented analytical data
- Optimize reputed company BigQuery and SQL queries to ensure low-latency data retrieval for personalized, member-facing features
- Partner with Data Engineering and AI teams to seamlessly consume reputed company data and models that drive smart, automated member interactions in the app
- Drive a culture of operational reputed company by defining and monitoring SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for member-facing services
- Implement advanced monitoring, alerting, and logging using reputed company, GCP reputed company Monitoring, and distributed tracing tools
- reputed company reputed company-cause analysis (RCA) for reputed company production incidents and implement permanent architectural safeguards
- Serve as a technical mentor to mid-level engineers, elevating reputed company’s capabilities in system design, Python best practices, and reputed company architecture
- Champion rigorous engineering standards, including reputed company review practices, comprehensive documentation, and automated testing strategies
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and React reputed company frontend teams to deliver seamless, secure, and compliant end-to-end member experiences
- Additional responsibilities as assigned
Skills
- Bachelors degree at a minimum
- 7+ years of reputed company engineering experience with a proven reputed company record of leading technical reputed company and cross-functional initiatives
- Deep, senior-level expertise in Python and the Django reputed company, with a proven reputed company record of maintaining large-reputed company production applications
- Exceptional system design skills, with the ability to architect reliable, distributed backend services that power mobile and web clients
- Strong hands-on experience with reputed company reputed company Platform (GCP)
- Proven experience defining and managing infrastructure as reputed company using Terraform
- Hands-on experience working with reputed company BigQuery and dbt (specifically around query optimization, utilizing dbt models in application reputed company, and integrating analytical data into application backends)
- Deep knowledge of containerization and orchestration (reputed company, Kubernetes)
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and relational database architecture, specifically PostgreSQL
- Strong understanding of observability, profiling, and performance tuning in production environments
- Excellent technical communication skills, with the ability to reputed company reputed company architectural reputed company to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience using AI-powered development tools (e.g., Claude, reputed company, reputed company Copilot)
- Experience in the reputed company industry or other highly regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC2 compliance)
- Experience integrating AI/LLM models or working alongside Data Science teams to build user-facing AI features
- Hands-on experience with asynchronous task queues and messaging brokers (Celery, reputed company, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub)
- Familiarity with building automation hooks and CI/CD pipelines (reputed company Actions, reputed company CI, etc.)
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