Senior Backend Engineer, Patient Experience — Python

Ro; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision membership

Equity for all team members

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave and flexible work

Job summary

Ro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Patient Experience team in the UK. You will own backend systems powering patient onboarding, care delivery, and insurance workflows, partnering with Product, Design, Data, and other teams to define, build, and iterate on featured experiences.

You will refine ambiguous problems, design scalable services, and ensure reliability while collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver meaningful product outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, data consistency, and service boundaries.
• Hands-on experience with Python and frameworks like FastAPI or Django.
• Experience scaling data-intensive production systems.
• Experience partnering with Product to scope and deliver user-facing features.
• Experience with telemetry/monitoring tooling (e.g., Datadog).
• Experience with decoupling monoliths into distributed services.

Responsibilities

• Own backend systems powering patient onboarding, care delivery, and insurance workflows.
• Design, build, and iterate on scalable distributed services in Python (FastAPI/Django).
• Partner with Product, Design, Data, and other teams to translate business goals into backend solutions.
• Own features end-to-end from discovery through launch and iteration.
• Drive testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Software engineering

FastAPI

Django

Data-intensive systems

On-call rotations

Product collaboration

Tools

Datadog

Load testing infrastructure

Job description

Ro is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Patient Experience team in the UK. You will own backend systems powering patient onboarding, care delivery, and insurance workflows, partnering with Product, Design, Data, and other teams to define, build, and iterate on featured experiences.

You will refine ambiguous problems, design scalable services, and ensure reliability while collaborating with cross-functional partners to deliver meaningful product outcomes.