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