About the position
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Regard, you'll be involved in all stages of the product development and deployment lifecycle: participate in idea generation, planning, design, prototyping, execution, deployment, and iteration of new and existing features. You'll collaborate closely with engineering, design, and product colleagues to bring new features and products to life. Your primary objective will be to develop high-quality software solutions that meet user needs and align with the organization's business goals. This will involve analyzing requirements, designing robust architectures, writing efficient code, and conducting thorough testing. As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will have the responsibility to drive projects forward, mentor junior team members, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives. By delivering innovative and reliable software, you will contribute to the success of our organization and make a meaningful impact in the industry.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product and design team members to best design medium to large projects balancing speed to market, user experience, business goals, and technical architecture quality
- Own medium to large backend services and drive improvements across system design, observability, testing, performance, and support
- Drive backend development practices, patterns, and processes along with the other Regard backend experts
- Mentor and review code from less experienced developers in our backend services across backend job processing, API, and other services
- Maintain and improve the quality of the codebase and tooling in your area of responsibility by proactive fixes and improvements and through identifying and proposing projects to improve the overall backend codebase
- Participate in operational activities supporting product areas you own including on-call, monitoring, and production support
- Contribute as necessary across the stack (front end, infrastructure, AWS, etc) in order to unblock projects
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (Python preferred)
- Able to participate in on-call operational support for their areas of responsibility
- Able to travel up to 4 weeks a year for company co-working and/or retreat weeks
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with k8s, AWS services (serverless, etc), OpenAI services
- Experience working on a mature enterprise SaaS technology product
- Exposure to startup and/or high growth environments
- Experience working with health technology
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
- Eligible for equity
- 99% employer paid health benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision) + One Medical subscription
- 18 PTO days/yr + 1 week holiday break
- Annual $750 learning & development stipend
- Company-sponsored team retreat + social events
- A sabbatical program
