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Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Commerce Platform
$212K–$292K
New York, NY · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 13, 2025
- Experience
- 7–10+ years of professional backend software development experience.
About the job
Leads technical design and delivery of scalable backend commerce systems that support healthcare payments, pricing, and invoicing.
What you'll do
- Build scalable backend capabilities and lead cross-functional technical efforts and roadmaps.
- Improve testing, monitoring, observability, performance, and service reliability; define SLIs/SLOs and participate in on-call rotations.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions and engineering practices.
What they ask for
- Proficient in Python, relational databases, and frameworks such as Django or FastAPI; experience with metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning.
- Experience building and maintaining high-scale backend systems and high-traffic production systems, with a deep understanding of distributed systems.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional technical projects.
- Focus on quality and risk, including preventing payment errors such as double charges and inconsistent payment states.
Nice to have
- Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries.
- Deep familiarity with breaking monolithic systems into well-defined domains.
Pay
$211,700 to $292,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, FastAPI, Django, Datadog
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