Posted Oct 19, 2026

Backend Software Engineer (Data Platform)

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• Vida is looking for a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that supports much of Vida’s business • Our team builds the systems that turn data from health plans, employers, and other partners into reliable information that Vida’s products and operations can use • That includes member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, and the data foundations behind reporting and analytics • You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, and take features from design through production • You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently • Build backend services that ingest, validate, reconcile, and serve data from external partners • Develop systems for member identity, eligibility, billing, and other core business domains • Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines used across Vida • Make systems resilient to incomplete, duplicated, delayed, and inconsistent real-world data • Build safe ways to retry, replay, and recover data when something goes wrong • Improve the reliability, observability, testing, and performance of production systems • Work with Engineering, Product, and Operations to figure out what needs to be built when the requirements are incomplete or messy • Additional responsibilities as needed