Ro
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
$191K–$234K
New York, NY · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and operate backend systems that support patient onboarding, care delivery, and insurance workflows across Ro’s healthcare platform.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and improve scalable, reliable distributed services; monitor and optimize production performance.
- Contribute to architectural vision, technical roadmaps, testing, observability, and technical design reviews.
- Collaborate with product, design, data, and engineering teams, and participate in on-call rotations.
What they ask for
- Experience architecting and building scalable web applications and distributed systems.
- Proficiency with Python, relational databases, and FastAPI or Django; experience with metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems, with understanding of distributed-system consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries.
- Ability to own technical roadmaps and collaborate across teams to deliver products.
Nice to have
- Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services.
Pay
$190,800 to $234,500 USD base salary
Tools
Python, FastAPI, Django, Datadog
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