Backend Engineer II, Data Platform (Remote)

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vida is seeking a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that powers Vida’s business. You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, transforming data from health plans, employers, and partners into reliable information for Vida’s products and operations.

You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently, contributing to member identity, eligibility, billing, and partner

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree at a minimum.
• 2+ years of professional experience building backend software.
• Strong programming fundamentals; we primarily use Python.
• Experience with relational databases and SQL.
• Experience building systems that process, transform, or move significant amounts of data.
• 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.
• Ability to understand an unfamiliar codebase and improve it without overcomplication.
• Clear written communication and ability to explain technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• 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 data.
• Build safe ways to retry, replay, and recover data when something goes wrong.
• Improve reliability, observability, testing, and performance of production systems.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Operations on requirements.

Skills

Bachelor’s degree

Backend experience

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Testing & debugging

APIs

Distributed systems

Code comprehension

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Vida is seeking a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that powers Vida’s business. You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, transforming data from health plans, employers, and partners into reliable information for Vida’s products and operations.

You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently, contributing to member identity, eligibility, billing, and partner