Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Garner Health is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to contribute to its mission of transforming the healthcare economy. The Senior Backend Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining the back-end services that power Garner’s core business. The ideal candidate will be excited about the company's mission, capable of delivering across the tech stack, and eager to learn and apply new techniques and technologies.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 delivering for the short term
• Ideating on new features and working with data to find new insights
• Researching and working with the latest tools and technologies
• Collaborating using our tech stack, including Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Kubernetes.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
• Experience building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
• Strong proficiency in Python is required
• 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, operating, and scaling applications running on Kubernetes
• Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices including sprints
• 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
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

Role offers:

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