Ro
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
$223K–$311K
New York, NY · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2025
- Experience
- 7 - 10+ years of software engineering experience, including roles involving technical leadership.
About the job
Leads the architecture and delivery of scalable backend systems and technical roadmaps for Ro’s healthcare platform, while mentoring engineers and improving production reliability.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate scalable distributed services; improve performance, reliability, testing, and observability.
- Define technical roadmaps and lead cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Mentor engineers 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; hands-on metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning.
- Track record scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems while maintaining performance and availability.
- Experience with distributed systems and production data-intensive systems, including consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries.
Nice to have
- Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services.
Pay
$223,100 to $311,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, FastAPI, Django, Datadog
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