Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (HIPAA Compliance)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior/Staff Backend Engineer (HIPAA Compliance)

• Focus: HIPAA compliance for a non-healthcare, business-software platform handling healthcare-regulated data

• Work: Assess data flows and implement technical safeguards across multiple services and platforms

Description

You will help extend a multi-service SaaS/ERP-style platform to support healthcare-regulated data by bringing stored data and service exposure into HIPAA standards. The role includes designing and implementing encryption at rest/in transit, access controls, audit logging, and required data-handling changes. You will also define and execute a remediation approach for legacy data added before compliance changes and create practical engineering standards and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Assess the platform to identify where regulated data flows, is stored, and is exposed across services

• Design and implement encryption at rest/in transit, access controls, audit logging, and data-handling changes at the database and service level

• Bring multiple services/platforms into compliance, not just a single component

• Define a remediation approach for legacy customer data and ensure previously stored data is cleaned up and protected

• Translate HIPAA requirements into engineering standards and support creation of SOPs/documentation

• Work closely with a small team with high independence

Requirements

• Senior/Senior Staff/Architect-level hands-on backend experience at the database and systems level

• Direct experience making a non-healthcare product/platform HIPAA compliant

• Strong understanding of HIPAA requirements for PHI handling and technical safeguards (encryption, access control, audit controls/audit logging, breach and retention considerations)

• Deep backend skills: data stores, service architecture, data migration, and large-scale remediation

• Experience with multi-service SaaS/ERP/accounting/payroll/HR or similar business-software environments

• Comfort with fast ramp-up via documentation and self-directed learning

Benefits

• Opportunity to lead end-to-end HIPAA compliance engineering across a large platform

• Work in a small team with significant ownership and limited hand-holding