Backend Engineer II

Job Description

Garner Health is seeking a Backend Engineer II to join their Payments, Claims, and Eligibility team. This is a fully remote position. The Backend Engineer II will be responsible for building and maintaining the back-end services that power Garner’s core business. The ideal candidate will be excited about Garner's mission to reshape the healthcare economy and eager to learn and apply new techniques and technologies. Garner Health has more than doubled its revenue annually over the last 5 years and is continuing to expand their team. What this role involves:

• Building and maintaining the back-end services that power Garner’s core business
• Participating in an on-call rotation by responding to system outages and support escalations from internal stakeholders
• Collaborating across disciplines to provide timely and accurate technical designs, work estimates, and answers to technical questions
• Protecting users’ privacy and security through best practices
• Designing and optimizing for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
• Ideating on new features and work with data to find new insights
• Researching and working with the latest tools and technologies
• Collaborating using our tech stack

Requirements:

• 3+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
• Proficiency in Python is required
• Experience building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
• Familiarity with TypeScript is a bonus, but not required
• A strong understanding of the AWS menu of services
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience deploying, supporting, and operating applications running on Kubernetes
• Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices
• A willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
• Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment
• A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system
• Authorization to work lawfully in the United States of America as Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

What this role offers:

• Equity incentive plan
• Flexible PTO
• Medical/Dental/Vision plan options
• 401(k)
• Teladoc Health