Backend Software Engineer II

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create backend services that ingest, validate, reconcile, and deliver data from external partners.

• Develop systems related to member identity, eligibility, billing, and other essential business domains.

• Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines utilized across Vida.

• Enhance system resilience against incomplete, duplicated, delayed, and inconsistent real-world data.

• Establish secure methods for retrying, replaying, and recovering data when issues arise.

• Improve the reliability, observability, testing, and performance of production systems.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations to establish requirements and provide solutions.

• Manage features from design through to production, progressing towards independently overseeing services and technical decisions.

• Additional tasks as required.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree.

• Over 2 years of professional experience in backend software development.

• Strong programming foundations, primarily in Python.

• Experience working with relational databases and proficiency in SQL.

• Background in developing systems that process, transform, or manage substantial amounts of data.

• Solid grasp of testing, debugging, APIs, and common failure modes in distributed systems.

• Experience in deploying or managing software within a cloud environment.

• Keen instincts regarding correctness, including validation, idempotency, retries, and edge cases.

• Ability to comprehend and enhance an unfamiliar codebase without complicating it further.

• Excellent written communication skills with the capability to articulate technical decisions and trade-offs.

• Must have authorization to work in the U.S.; Vida is unable to sponsor work visas.

• Must either reside in or be capable of working from a state where Vida is registered.

• Previous experience in healthcare is not mandatory.

• Preferred experience includes data-intensive backend systems, ETL/ELT pipelines, event-driven architectures, PostgreSQL, analytical warehouses, data modeling, infrastructure as code, containers, workflow orchestration, healthcare data, and regulated or security-sensitive production environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

• Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in job application processes.