Software Engineer (Backend)

Were looking for a technical lead to help drive the backend architecture for an Internal Reporting tool, a business intelligence and client reporting platform serving enterprise healthcare clients. Youll set technical direction across a suite of interdependent backend services, guide a team of engineers through delivery, and be the primary escalation point for architectural and cross-service decisions. This role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership: youll still write code and review designs, but youre also accountable for the health, coherence, and direction of the system.

Requirements

**What Youll Do

Own the technical roadmap for backend services: reporting, data access, scheduled processing, and export/delivery

Drive architectural decisions across multiple interdependent services and data sources, and document them for the team

Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, API design conventions, and observability

Review designs and code from other engineers, and unblock them on hard technical problems

Break down ambiguous requirements into a clear technical plan the team can execute against

Balance short-term delivery pressure against long-term technical health; call out and manage technical debt deliberately

Partner directly with product, QA, and other engineering teams to align on scope, sequencing, and dependencies

Lead and propose ideas/solutions in cross-team architecture discussions and vendor/platform evaluations

Mentor engineers on the team and help grow their technical judgment, not just their task list

Hands-on Engineer: contribute code, especially for the highest-risk or highest-ambiguity problems

**What Were Looking For

**Required:

12+ years building and operating production backend systems, with demonstrated technical leadership (formal or informal)

Strong hands-on experience with a modern backend language and framework (e.g. Java/Spring, Kotlin, C#/.NET, Node.js, Python, or Go)

Track record of making and owning architectural decisions across multiple services, not just within one

Solid relational database experience (schema design, migrations, query performance) at a systems-design level

Experience designing REST APIs and service contracts that other teams build against

Experience with cloud platforms, GCP preferred

Strong understanding of authentication/authorization patterns and security tradeoffs in distributed systems

Experience coordinating work and dependencies across multiple engineers and multiple services

Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization, including improving pipeline health and delivery velocity

Strong background in building scalable, distributed applications and platforms

Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting tradeoffs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders

**Strongly preferred:

Experience integrating with BI/analytics or data-warehouse platforms

Background in regulated or audit-sensitive domains (healthcare, finance, insurance) where data lineage and correctness are strict requirements

Experience leading a system through a migration or major architectural shift

Experience designing asynchronous or scheduled processing for large data volumes

Experience establishing role-based access control and data visibility enforcement at a system-design level

Experience mentoring engineers and running technical planning (grooming, estimation, design reviews)

**Nice to have:

Experience with distributed caching or session/token stores

Enough frontend familiarity to review API design from the consumers perspective

Experience building out observability and logging practices for a team, not just using them**********

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