Backend Engineer II - Healthcare Platform (Remote)

H1; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Wellness holidays

Retirement options

Health & charitable donation stipends

Flexible work hours

Job summary

H1's MCU Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer II to contribute to meaningful full‑stack features that power our platform. You will work with senior engineers, product, and design to build scalable, high‑performing applications in a distributed systems environment.

This role emphasizes ownership, cloud‑native development, and collaboration across frontend and backend using React, TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, and AWS to deliver reliable

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional software engineering experience building production‑grade applications.
• Experience developing APIs, backend services, and/or microservices in a distributed systems environment.
• Hands‑on experience with TypeScript and Node.js, with exposure to delivering customer‑facing full‑stack features.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL, including database design, querying, and basic performance considerations.
• Familiarity with Kafka or other event‑driven messaging systems.
• Exposure to Elasticsearch or similar search technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud‑native development practices using Kubernetes and AWS.
• Solid understanding of software fundamentals, including debugging, testing, and writing maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to features end‑to‑end from implementation and testing through deployment and production support, with guidance from senior team members.
• Develop and maintain APIs, backend services, and distributed microservice architectures.
• Implement and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and indexes for large‑scale applications.
• Build and maintain Kafka‑based event‑driven systems, including producers, consumers, and consumer groups.
• Develop and optimize Elasticsearch indexes, mappings, and search queries for high‑volume search workloads.
• Support applications running in Kubernetes environments, including basic operational troubleshooting.
• Contribute to AWS‑based cloud infrastructure and participate in Spark and EMR data workflows supporting the platform.
• Build and maintain full‑stack applications across React frontends and NestJS backend services.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, learning and applying engineering best practices.
• Partner with Product and Design to translate business requirements into reliable technical solutions.
• Contribute to improving system reliability, observability, and performance through thoughtful engineering decisions.

Skills

Distributed systems

APIs design

Full-stack development

Collaborative teamwork

Debugging & testing

Cloud-native development

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

React

Kafka

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

AWS

Python/PySpark

Golang

Job description

H1's MCU Engineering team is seeking a Software Engineer II to contribute to meaningful full‑stack features that power our platform. You will work with senior engineers, product, and design to build scalable, high‑performing applications in a distributed systems environment.

This role emphasizes ownership, cloud‑native development, and collaboration across frontend and backend using React, TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, and AWS to deliver reliable