Senior Backend Engineer
Weave · United States · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineeringFull-time
About the role
Weave (NYSE: WEAV) is dedicated to enhancing the patient experience by providing healthcare practices with the tools necessary to operate more efficiently and effectively. Our platform supports various interactions, including scheduling, payments, communication, and reviews, enabling healthcare professionals to focus on patient care. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be part of a high-performing team that collaborates across the U.S. and India to develop resilient and scalable backend systems that impact the daily operations of 40,000+ healthcare practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang microservices.
- Drive technical architecture and contribute to long-term system health by anticipating scaling and maintenance needs.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact features.
- Participate in system design reviews, propose and implement robust solutions, and contribute to Weave’s overall engineering strategy.
- Own the quality, reliability, and observability of your code from development to production.
- Help plan and execute projects from inception to delivery, with a strong sense of ownership and outcome-orientation.
- Mentor peers and junior engineers by sharing your knowledge and encouraging best practices.
- Participate in on-call rotation and escalation as needed, providing hands-on support during critical incidents and mentoring team members through complex production issues.
- Establish and maintain operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for your team's services.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Golang preferred or willingness to learn).
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis).
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systems.
What Will Make Us Love You
- You’ve deployed and maintained services in cloud environments, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- You’re comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes, observability tooling (metrics, alerts, tracing), and service reliability.
- You’ve worked with protobufs/gRPC, or Temporal, and have experience breaking monoliths into microservices.
- You’re thoughtful about technical debt and scalability, and you write code with both today and the future in mind.
- You value cross-functional collaboration and can explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- You lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around you.
Pay
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.
Schedule
The position offers a flexible schedule to accommodate remote work and personal commitments.