Backend Data Platform Engineer - Remote, Healthcare Impact

Jobgether SRL; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (US)

Job summary

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Backend Software Engineer II – Data Platform to help build the data infrastructure powering healthcare products. You will develop backend services in Python that transform data from health plans, employers, and partners into reliable information, supporting domains like identity, eligibility, billing, and analytics.

You will design APIs and data pipelines, improve reliability and observability, and own features from design through production in a distributed systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent educational background.
• 2+ years of professional experience building and maintaining backend software.
• Strong programming fundamentals, with professional experience in Python preferred.
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
• Experience developing systems that process, transform, or move significant volumes of data.
• Solid understanding of software testing, debugging, API design, and common distributed-system failure modes.
• Experience deploying or operating applications in a cloud environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services that ingest, validate, reconcile, transform, and serve data received from external partners.
• Develop reliable systems supporting member identity, eligibility, billing, integrations, and other critical business domains.
• Design and implement APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines used across the organization.
• Build systems capable of handling incomplete, duplicated, delayed, inconsistent, and otherwise imperfect real-world data.
• Implement reliable mechanisms for retrying, replaying, recovering, and reconciling data when processing failures occur.
• Improve the reliability, observability, test coverage, performance, and maintainability of production systems.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to clarify ambiguous requirements and determine effective technical solutions.
• Take features from initial design through implementation, deployment, and production operation.
• Investigate unfamiliar areas of the codebase, understand existing architecture, and make thoughtful improvements without introducing unnecessary complexity.
• Contribute to technical decisions and gradually take greater ownership of backend services and system design.
• Apply strong engineering practices around correctness, validation, idempotency, error handling, retries, and edge cases.
• Support additional engineering initiatives and responsibilities as business and team priorities evolve.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

Cloud

Testing

API design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Containers

Infrastructure as Code

Workflow orchestration

Cloud platforms

Job description

Jobgether SRL is seeking a Backend Software Engineer II – Data Platform to help build the data infrastructure powering healthcare products. You will develop backend services in Python that transform data from health plans, employers, and partners into reliable information, supporting domains like identity, eligibility, billing, and analytics.

You will design APIs and data pipelines, improve reliability and observability, and own features from design through production in a distributed systems