Senior Backend Engineer

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Job summary

A healthcare technology company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and maintain secure backend systems using Python. Candidates should have 5+ years in backend development and proficiency in frameworks like Django or FastAPI. The role includes collaborating with teams to optimize application performance and mentoring junior engineers. Join us to support critical healthcare payment integrity initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and related backend frameworks.
• Experience with RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Solid understanding of relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and secure backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend engineers and product managers.
• Optimize application performance and scalability.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Python

Backend frameworks (Django, FastAPI)

RESTful API design

Microservices architecture

Problem-solving skills

Communication abilities

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Remote

Department: Engineering

Reports To: Director of Development

About Alivia Analytics

Alivia Analytics is transforming healthcare payment integrity through advanced analytics and AI. Our mission is to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare billing systems. We build scalable, secure, and intelligent platforms that empower payers to manage cost effectively while ensuring patient care remains unmatched and uncompromised.

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex problems, and is passionate about building scalable backend systems using Python.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and secure backend services and APIs using Python.
• Implement configurable solutions that support customer-specific preferences without compromising code quality or long-term viability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including frontend engineers, data engineers, product managers, and security analysts.
• Optimize application performance and scalability.
• Collaborate with DevOps and QA teams to implement and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Ensure code quality through code reviews, unit testing, and documentation.
• Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices in backend development.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Python and related backend frameworks (e.g., Django, FastAPI).
• Experience with RESTful API design and microservices architecture.
• Solid understanding of relational databases.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS & Azure).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with git-based version control systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven architectures.
• Knowledge of data pipelines and ETL processes.
• Exposure to DevOps practices and infrastructure as code.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

Alivia Analytics is helping customers Achieve Healthcare Payment Integrity, Finally. By turning mountains of data into actionable answers, Alivia Analytics does the heavy lifting – delivering the accuracy, confidence and speed our customers need to solve their healthcare payment integrity challenges. Through the Alivia Analytics Healthcare Payment Integrity Suite TM we help private and public healthcare payers achieve payment integrity globally. In the US alone, up to 10% of every dollar spent is attributed to Fraud, Waste or Abuse that amounts to up to 370 Billion dollars lost annually. If your ambition is to grow your responsibilities and career while building world class analytic SaaS systems and fixing a huge problem for social good, please come and join us.