Backend Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Backend Software Engineer

• Work setup: Remote (USA)

• Focus: Secure backend integrations, real-time interfaces, and data pipelines

Description

Backend Engineers design, build, and maintain reliable software integrations connecting products, platforms, and systems through a variety of interfaces. This role integrates full-stack web applications with third-party software and platforms (including EMR/EHR, CRM, telephony, and AI applications), building real-time interfaces and data pipelines to move and transform data between applications, databases, and data lakes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure APIs, data services, and microservices for internal systems and external partners

• Develop data models, data flows, and pipelines for reliable storage, transformation, and transfer of data

• Integrate third-party systems using real-time custom or standardized interfaces

• Implement secure integrations with third-party platforms, SaaS products, and cloud-based services

• Translate requirements into practical, maintainable solutions through collaboration with technical and business teams

• Drive feature development from requirements refinement through implementation and maintenance, aligned with engineering standards

• Support DevOps culture via automated testing, source control, deployment automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement

• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architecture decisions

• Document code, technical designs, framework standards, data processes, and team practices

• Troubleshoot complex data, integration, and performance issues and implement sustainable fixes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field

• 3–8 years of enterprise or commercial software development and solution integrations

• Experience integrating with EMR/EHR systems such as Athena, ECW and/or Epic

• Demonstrated data-intensive product development using database technologies such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Cosmos

• Expertise building and integrating REST APIs, GraphQL interfaces, webhooks, WebSockets, and pub/sub technologies

• Strong SQL skills including the ability to design and code complex query logic and data transformation workflows

• Professional development experience using at least one procedural or object-oriented language (preferably multiple: Scala, TypeScript, C#, Java, or Python)

• Cloud platform and data service experience, preferably Azure and/or AWS

• Source control and software development practices including Git and automated build/deployment processes

• Experience working with healthcare data

Benefits

• Opportunity to build secure, scalable integrations and data pipelines supporting healthcare and AI-driven applications

• Collaborative environment with cross-functional engineering, data, and business stakeholders

• Emphasis on maintainability, standards, automation, and continuous improvement