Senior Software Engineer, Backend
About the role
Join Tech @ Ro to build the future of healthcare, from the ground up! At Ro, we believe that when people achieve their health goals, they can achieve their life goals. The highest-leverage way to move society forward is to give people their health, and the current healthcare system isn’t built to do that. It was built to bill, not to serve patients. We’re building a new system. One where the patient is in control. One designed from scratch for the digital age. At Ro, technology isn’t just a function… It's core to how we deliver care . We’ve built a vertically integrated healthcare platform that connects telehealth, diagnostics, pharmacy, and logistics into a seamless, end-to-end experience for millions of patients. …and we’re just getting started.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI
- Operate as an owner within your team's domain and proactively assess and improve system performance and reliability
- Drive engineering excellence through best practices in testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization
- Actively contribute to building the team’s architectural vision and technical roadmap
- Collaborate on code reviews and technical design documents to ensure the consistent application of best practices across relevant domains
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers from adjacent teams to ensure alignment and technical integrity across boundaries
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience architecting, designing and building scalable web applications and distributed systems
- Proficiency with Python, relational databases, and frameworks like FastAPI or Django, with hands-on experience in metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning leveraging Ro’s load testing infrastructure and tools like Datadog
- Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth (ideally in a mid-to-late stage startup environment), ensuring high performance and availability
- Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries-backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
- Strong sense of ownership with the ability and desire to own technical roadmaps and refine ambiguous problems
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners to create the best possible products
Qualifications
- Bonus Skills: Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries, Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services
Skills
- Experience with Python, FastAPI, and related technologies
- Understanding of distributed systems and data consistency
- Hands-on experience with load testing and performance tuning
- Experience with relational databases and database management
- Experience with continuous integration and deployment
Benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO
- Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements
- Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits
- Pet insurance
- Student loan refinancing
Pay
The target base salary for this position ranges from $182,300 to $220,000, in addition to a competitive equity and benefits package (as applicable).
Schedule
Ro is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our application and interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation in the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected].