Backend Engineer Responsibilities
- Develop integrations with medical systems (Electronic Health Record, Practice Management, and Billing systems) in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- Develop new integrations: Building bi-directional data exchange interfaces using APIs, Direct Database Connections, Web Parsers, RPAs.
- Add new features to existing integrations.
- Maintain existing integrations.
- Refactor and improve architecture design of existing integrations.
- Collaborate with Founders and Product Team to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
- Propose and implement architecture decisions geared towards product scalability and reliability.
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
- Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
Backend Engineer Requirements
- Significant professional experience (5+ years) with Python, SQL, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery.
- It'd be great if you have experience with developing web parsers (e.g. Selenium) + experience in reverse engineering.
- At least basic algorithms and data structure knowledge.
- Understanding of race conditions and how to mitigate them by crafting concurrent code.
- Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems, including SQL.
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
- Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
- Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
- Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
- An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.
- Ability to use GitLab.