Backend Engineer

What you will be doing:

• Own backend architecture, design and implementation

• Design and evolve database schema to comply with business requirements

• Work with teams consuming backend APIs in adopting new changes and improvements

• Improve performance, reliability, and security of the infrastructure

• Ability to deal with ambiguity and to anticipate future needs while architecting systems

• Collaborate with other Loop employees including frontend engineers and product managers

• Collaborate with technical leadership to prioritize long-term technical investments and get them on the engineering roadmap

• Educate engineers about new findings and technology best practices through setting up brainstorming, Knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Build cadence in the team around code quality through code reviews, release guidelines and ensure no disruption of core business flows.

• Mentor, lead, hire other engineers.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field of study

• 4+ years of relevant industry experience

• Expertise in any application programming language like Node, Java, Python 

• Demonstrated ability to build and scale systems

• Strong experience building microservices; scalable and secure APIs

• Strong experience with CSPs like AWS, GCP. Strong experience with at least one of NoSQL (Firestore, MongoDB etc), SQL (MySQL/Postgres) databases and schema design

• Knowledge of modern auth mechanisms, such as JSON Web Token, OAuth, etc

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery

• Experience writing high-quality design docs with architecture diagrams

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Ability to do cost analysis and optimization of software systems

• Ability to own and lead work on complex technical problems Excitement towards our mission and a strong desire to solve problems in the healthcare domain

• Ability to mentor, lead, and interview other engineers