Senior Backend Engineer

Lokra; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful work in healthcare tech

Remote, collaborative environment

Ownership of engineering decisions

Professional growth with product

Job summary

Lokra is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate dependable services for healthcare products. You will help shape backend architecture, build secure APIs and data services, and work closely with product, frontend, and integration teams to deliver reliable experiences.

In this role you will own backend features from design through deployment, make pragmatic architecture decisions, and mentor teammates to improve quality, reliability, and performance across services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience.
• Strong experience building and maintaining APIs and production services.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and its ecosystem.
• Experience with relational databases, data modeling, and query optimization.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Experience with automated testing, version control, and collaborative development.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Contribute to architecture decisions for scalable, reliable systems.
• Apply sound practices for data modeling, access control, privacy, and service security.
• Improve performance, observability, testing, and operational reliability.
• Review code, share engineering knowledge, and support technical growth across the team.
• Collaborate with product and other engineering teams to plan and deliver features.

Skills

APIs & services

Backend architecture

Data modeling

Authentication & security

Testing & CI/CD

Code reviews

Tools

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Job description

Lokra is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design, build, and operate dependable services for healthcare products. You will help shape backend architecture, build secure APIs and data services, and work closely with product, frontend, and integration teams to deliver reliable experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and APIs
• Contribute to architecture decisions for scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems
• Apply sound practices for data modeling, access control, privacy, and service security
• Improve performance, observability, testing, and operational reliability
• Review code, share engineering knowledge, and support technical growth across the team
• Collaborate with product and other engineering teams to plan and deliver features

What You'll Be Responsible For

Owning backend features from technical design through deployment and support Making pragmatic architecture decisions and documenting important trade-offs Helping maintain quality and reliability through reviews, testing, and monitoring

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional backend software engineering experience
• Strong experience building and maintaining APIs and production services
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language and its ecosystem
• Experience with relational databases, data modeling, and query optimization
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, and secure handling of sensitive data
• Experience with automated testing, version control, and collaborative development
• Clear communication and a thoughtful approach to technical problem-solving

What We Offer

• Meaningful work building technology for healthcare teams and communities
• Remote, collaborative working environment
• Ownership of important engineering decisions and services
• Professional growth as the team and product evolve

Our Hiring Process

• Application review
• Introductory conversation
• Backend technical interview
• Architecture and collaboration discussion
• Final interview with the team
• Offer