Senior Backend Engineer

Labcorp; North Carolina; Remote; USD 144,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ovia Health, a subsidiary of Labcorp, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to lead development within the backend systems. The position demands expertise in PHP and distributed systems, offering a flexible work schedule and comprehensive benefits, including paid time off and medical coverage. Join a vibrant team that's passionate about women's and family health and making an impact.

Benefits

Flexible work schedule

Flexible time off policy

Employer 401k contribution

Paid parental leave

Multiple options for medical insurance

Dental and vision coverage

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend software development.
• Experience with modern PHP (8+) and frameworks like Symfony or Laravel.
• Ability to break down complex projects into clear deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a team to ensure backend systems are performant and scalable.
• Build backend APIs for user education and action plans.
• Contribute to code quality through reviews.

Skills

Software engineering ability

Designing performant backend services

Understanding of distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

PHP

Symfony

Laravel

SQL

Job description

Ovia Health, a wholly-owned subsidiary ofLabcorp, offers a preventative and proven platform trusted by over 22 million families for daily personalized health engagement with high-touch support, 50+ clinical programs and research validation from 60+ peer-reviewed publications and 35+ partnerships with world-renowned research institutions. Our mobile apps and comprehensive digital solutions for fertility, pregnancy, and parenting empower people to take control of their health and navigate parenthood with confidence. Ovia Health is part of Labcorp’s vision of supporting women's needs wherever they are in their lives, whatever their health and personal situation.

Ovia Health and Labcorp are Equal Opportunity Employers. We are proud of our diversity, and we create inclusion and belonging through how we onboard, meet, connect, engage, and communicate. Join us!

We’re looking for a talented SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER to join our small, energetic engineering team. We have a lot of critical product and engineering work and seek candidates interested in owning the development of entire areas of our backend. The ideal candidate is someone who isn’t afraid of a mature codebase and enjoys the challenges that come with modernizing it with new technologies.

Who you are:

• Passionate about women's and family health and a strong believer in Ovia's mission to improve lives

• Proficient at taking large, complicated technical projects and breaking down the work into clear stages and deliverables across multiple platforms

• Able to consistently deliver code that sets the standard for quality and maintainability with little guidance, while maintaining an openness to feedback

• Able to own technical design for larger projects, and can think through and articulate potential impacts on other teams, the product and the company

• Move quickly and prioritizes pragmatic, working solutions

What you will do:

• Work with a small, tight-knit, inclusive team to ensure our distributed backend systems are performant, resilient, and scalable

• Build out the backend APIs and systems that coordinate the delivery of education and call to action plans to our users based on their specific journey

• Help tackle typical problems of cloud based (AWS) distributed systems including communication, coordination, scalability, resiliency, and consistency

• Actively contribute to reviewing teammates’ work via code reviews in a way that improves the team’s shared understanding of the code and improves our technology

• Evangelize best practices that improve code quality and developer productivity, while leading by example in your own work

• Collaborate with other engineering and business stakeholders to ensure alignment on requirements and architectural decisions

What we require:

• HS Diploma required

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related discipline preferred.

• Top-notch software engineering ability and experience in designing, building, and testing performant backend services

• Experience with modern PHP (8+) required

• Experience with Symfony or Laravel, Doctrine DBAL, Doctrine ORM, and SQL is preferred

• 5+ years of experience with team-based development

• Proficient at taking large, complicated technical projects and breaking down the work into clear stages and deliverables across multiple platforms

• Understanding of distributed systems and experience with components of a distributed system architecture

What we offer:

We are a lively, creative team that works hard and laughs a lot. We love what we do, and working at Ovia Health is a chance to be a part of something truly impactful. We value our employees tremendously and do what we can to help them stay happy and healthy, at work and away from it. In addition to a supportive and healthy environment, we offer:

• Small, dynamic and tight-knit teams that encompass a supportive and collaborative atmosphere

• Flexible work schedule

• Flexible time off policy including paid vacation and sick leave

• Multiple options for medical insurance coverage

• Dental, and vision as well as many other wellness-centered benefits

• Employer contribution to 401k with immediate vesting plan

• Paid parental leave

• Ability to be fully remote(US), given availability between core hours of 10am ET and 4pm ET; preference is given to candidates within a reasonable distance from Ovia/Labcorp hubs, including Ovia’s metro Boston location

Application Window: 6/30/2025

Pay Range: $144K to $160K/yr

All job offers will bebased on a candidate’s skills and prior relevant experience, applicabledegrees/certifications,as well as internal equity and market data.

LBP Eligible:

The position is also eligible for an annual bonus under the Labcorp Bonus Plan.Bonuses are payable based on corporate and/or business segment performance and are subject to individual performance modifiers.

Benefits: Employees regularly scheduled to work 20 or more hours per week are eligible for comprehensive benefits including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, STD/LTD, 401(k), Paid Time Off (PTO) or Flexible Time Off (FTO), Tuition Reimbursement and Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Casual, PRN & Part Time employees regularly scheduled to work less than 20 hours are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Plan only. For more detailed information, pleaseclick here.

Labcorp is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer:

Labcorp strives for inclusion and belonging in the workforce and does not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We make employment decisions based on the needs of our business and the qualifications and merit of the individual. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), family or parental status, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, personal appearance, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic. Additionally, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law.

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