Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Happy Health is revolutionizing sleep medicine delivery through their comprehensive telehealth platform. The Principal Backend Developer will have direct ownership of the architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and long-term evolution of the backend infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration of services and systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and evolve a serverless backend stack in AWS, primarily utilizing Python 3.10+, Lambda, CDK, DynamoDB, Cloudfront, SNS, SQS, S3, and other related services to support customer-facing applications and internal operational workflows
- Lead the design, implementation, and integration of our REST API, event processors, services, and underlying datastores that deliver meaningful data to and from customers resulting from their use of the Happy Ring
- Establish and guide backend engineering best practices across system design, observability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and security
- Provide technical leadership to other team members, contractors, and partners building on these systems
- Drive architectural decisions and cross-functional technical alignment across software, mobile, web, eCommerce, operations, and partner-facing systems
- Help ensure regulatory compliance and best practices are maintained across these systems and the mechanisms used to access them, including M2M authentication, authorization, and login workflows
- Identify technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, and platform gaps early, and proactively drive solutions that support near-term commercial growth and long-term platform needs
Skills
- 8+ years of experience in backend software development
- 5+ years of experience in Python
- 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems in AWS
- Demonstrated experience designing scalable APIs, cloud infrastructure, and continuous integration workflows
- Strong experience making technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, security, and speed of execution
- Proven ability to lead technical design and influence engineering direction across multiple systems or teams
- 2+ years of experience working in the healthcare technology industry
- Experience working in regulated environments involving security, privacy, and compliance requirements
- Experience with serverless architecture at scale
- Experience with GraphQL, OpenAPI, and client SDK generation tools
- Experience integrating EHR, CRM, eCommerce, and logistics/3PL platforms
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and serving as a technical lead without direct people management responsibility
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