Senior Backend Architect: Scale APIs & Lead Excellence

Swoop Airlines and Aviation; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NimbleRx is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and deliver scalable backend services for our web products used by patients, pharmacies, and other customers. You will work with a world‑class team to ship reliable features that power critical workflows.

You will mentor juniors and peers, promote best practices, and own features end-to-end from design through release, contributing to a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years with backend APIs, services, and platform development.
• Rich development experience with Java, Spring, and SQL.
• Experience developing scalable, customer-facing, web-based applications.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Nice to have: experience with React, Terraform/Terragrunt, or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build a scalable platform, API, and services that people love to use.
• Take ownership of backend features, from design to implementation to release.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns.
• Promote best practices and high-quality development techniques.
• Tackle tough design and technical problems.
• Enhance our systems’ usability and performance, ensuring a consistent user experience.

Skills

Java

Spring

SQL

Communication

React

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

AWS

Job description

NimbleRx is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and deliver scalable backend services for our web products used by patients, pharmacies, and other customers. You will work with a world‑class team to ship reliable features that power critical workflows.

You will mentor juniors and peers, promote best practices, and own features end-to-end from design through release, contributing to a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.