Remote Senior Healthcare Integrations Engineer

UpDoc, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

UpDoc, Inc. is a remote-friendly healthtech startup building clinically validated AI for chronic disease management. We are seeking a frontend/backend engineer to join our team and help deliver patient and physician facing interfaces and integrations.

You will design, build, and maintain crucial integrations between UpDoc and health systems, EHR platforms, and external services. You will own projects end to end, collaborate with IT, vendors, and partners, and implement secure APIs using Python,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend/system integration focus.
• Strong experience with modern, type-hinted Python.
• Production integrations with third‑party systems and APIs.
• Experience building production APIs and backend services with FastAPI, Pydantic.
• Understanding REST, HTTP, auth, webhooks, databases, distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably Azure, and containerized apps.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, observability, and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to own technically complex projects from discovery to production.
• Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain integrations between UpDoc and health systems, EHRs, and external services.
• Own integration projects end to end from discovery to production support.
• Collaborate with health system IT, EHR vendors, and partners to deploy integrations.
• Design and implement internal and external APIs and backend services using FastAPI and Pydantic.
• Work with interoperability standards like FHIR, HL7, SMART on FHIR as needed.
• Ensure secure data flows, with attention to privacy, auth, and data integrity.
• Translate data/workflows between systems with different schemas and constraints.
• Handle real-world failures with retries, idempotency, and robust error handling.
• Diagnose production integration issues using logs, traces, and API payloads.
• Establish monitoring, observability, and alerting for integrations.

Skills

Backend development

Systems integration

API engineering

Python

FastAPI

Pydantic

REST APIs

Authentication & authorization

Webhooks

Databases

Distributed systems

Debugging & troubleshooting

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Azure

Docker/Containers

CI/CD tooling

Web API design tools

Job description

UpDoc, Inc. is a remote-friendly healthtech startup building clinically validated AI for chronic disease management. We are seeking a frontend/backend engineer to join our team and help deliver patient and physician facing interfaces and integrations.

You will design, build, and maintain crucial integrations between UpDoc and health systems, EHR platforms, and external services. You will own projects end to end, collaborate with IT, vendors, and partners, and implement secure APIs using Python,