Description
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Weave, you'll join a high-trust, high-impact team shaping the future of healthcare technology. You'll work in a collaborative environment, partnering with teammates across the U.S. and India to design and deliver resilient, scalable backend systems that power critical features in our platform.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Go (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.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Go 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, NSQ).
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
- Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systems.
Nice to Have:
- 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.