Staff Backend Engineer
Core
Building and scaling backend systems for a global digital health platform serving millions of members, focusing on member identity, food databases, personalization, and tracking tools.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer
Builds
Scalable APIs, data stores, and member experience platforms for a digital health community
Domain
Digital Health / Consumer Technology
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Large-scale distributed systems, API design, event-driven architecture, database design, high-availability systems, SLO-driven development, resiliency patterns, technical design, code reviews, mentorship
Preferred skills
Java, Go
Technologies
AWS
Responsibilities
Lead backend design and implementation of services connecting mobile and web clients; Identify and resolve latency and availability bottlenecks; Build and maintain high-performance services for global food database; Define member data caching, syncing, and auditing strategies; Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs for services; Implement backend resiliency strategies such as circuit breaking and retries; Create detailed technical designs and lead code reviews; Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior and mid-level engineers.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship
