Backend Software Engineer

Who you are

• Bachelor's degree at a minimum
• 2+ years of professional experience building backend software
• Strong programming fundamentals- we primarily use Python
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL
• Experience building systems that process, transform, or move significant amounts of data
• A solid understanding of testing, debugging, APIs, and common distributed-system failure modes
• Experience deploying or operating software in a cloud environment
• Good instincts around correctness, including validation, idempotency, retries, and edge cases
• The ability to get into an unfamiliar codebase, understand how it works, and improve it without making it more complicated
• Clear written communication and an ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs
• You do not need previous healthcare experience or experience with every technology we use
• Data-intensive backend systems, ETL/ELT pipelines, or event-driven architectures
• PostgreSQL, analytical warehouses, or data modeling
• Infrastructure as code, containers, or workflow orchestration
• Identity resolution, entity matching, eligibility, claims, or other healthcare data
• Regulated or security-sensitive production environments

What the job involves

• Vida is looking for a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that supports much of Vida's business
• Our team builds the systems that turn data from health plans, employers, and other partners into reliable information that Vida's products and operations can use
• That includes member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, and the data foundations behind reporting and analytics
• You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, and take features from design through production
• You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently
• Build backend services that ingest, validate, reconcile, and serve data from external partners
• Develop systems for member identity, eligibility, billing, and other core business domains
• Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines used across Vida
• Make systems resilient to incomplete, duplicated, delayed, and inconsistent real-world data
• Build safe ways to retry, replay, and recover data when something goes wrong
• Improve the reliability, observability, testing, and performance of production systems
• Work with Engineering, Product, and Operations to figure out what needs to be built when the requirements are incomplete or messy
• Additional responsibilities as needed