Backend Data Platform Engineer II – Python

Vida Health; United States; Presencial; USD 120 000 - 130 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Vida Health is seeking a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that supports Vida's business. You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, taking features from design through production.

You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently. The role focuses on data from health plans, employers, and partners, enabling reliable information for products and operations.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree at a minimum.
• 2+ years of professional experience building backend software.
• Strong programming fundamentals- we primarily use Python.
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
• Experience building systems that process, transform, or move significant amounts of data.
• A solid understanding of testing, debugging, APIs, and common distributed-system failure modes.
• Experience deploying or operating software in a cloud environment.
• Good instincts around correctness, including validation, idempotency, retries, and edge cases.
• The ability to get into an unfamiliar codebase, understand how it works, and improve it without making it more complicated.
• Clear written communication and an ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs.
• You do not need previous healthcare experience or experience with every technology we use.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conhecimentos

Python

Relational databases

SQL

Data processing

APIs

Testing & debugging

Cloud deployment

Distributed systems

Code comprehension

Communication

Healthcare not required

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Vida Health is seeking a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that supports Vida's business. You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, taking features from design through production.

You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently. The role focuses on data from health plans, employers, and partners, enabling reliable information for products and operations.