Senior Backend Engineer

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Weave seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for its healthcare platform. The role involves shaping architecture, ensuring reliability, and collaborating across product, design, and frontend teams.

Role Snapshot

• Design & build scalable backend services
• Drive technical architecture & system health
• Collaborate cross‑functionally
• Own reliability, observability & quality
• Mentor junior engineers
• Participate in on‑call rotation
• Establish operational excellence (SLAs/SLOs)

Must-Have Requirements

• Golang (or Java/Python/Ruby/C#)
• RESTful API design
• Distributed systems (gRPC, protobuf, Kafka, Redis)
• SQL & relational databases
• Microservices architecture
• backend engineering
• RESTful API development
• distributed systems
• must pass background check
• must be authorized to work in United States

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Google Cloud Platform
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Observability tooling (metrics, alerts, tracing)
• Temporal
• cloud deployment (GCP)
• container orchestration
• observability

Work Setup

• Location: United States
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: COUNTRY_RESTRICTED
• Remote countries: United States
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Work authorization: must be authorized to work in United States
• Visa sponsorship: unknown
• Background check: contingent upon successful background check

Not Specified in JD

• Salary range
• Visa sponsorship
• Relocation
• Travel
• Shift
• Security clearance
• Coding test
• Portfolio
• GitHub
• Writing sample
• Cover letter

What You'll Likely Work On

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs
• Define and evolve technical architecture for long‑term system health
• Partner with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high‑impact features
• Ensure code quality, reliability, and observability from dev to production
• Plan and execute projects end‑to‑end with strong ownership
• Mentor peers and junior engineers, fostering best practices
• Participate in on‑call rotation and resolve critical production incidents
• Set and uphold operational standards (SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting)

Good Fit If You Have

• Passion for improving healthcare provider experiences
• Curiosity‑driven problem solving and continuous learning
• Strong communication skills for technical and non‑technical audiences
• Thoughtful about technical debt and future scalability