Senior Backend Engineer

Labcorp; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Labcorp's subsidiary, Ovia Health, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their dynamic team. The role involves developing backend systems and APIs, requiring strong PHP skills and experience in distributed systems. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment and contribute to improving women's and family health through innovative technology.

Benefits

Flexible work schedule and time off policy

Medical, dental, vision insurance options

Wellness benefits

401k with immediate vesting

Paid parental leave

Remote work options within US

Qualifications

• 5+ years of team-based development experience.
• Experience with modern PHP (8+) required.
• Strong software engineering skills and experience in building and testing backend services.

Responsibilities

• Work with a small, inclusive team to ensure backend systems are performant and scalable.
• Build backend APIs and systems for user journeys.
• Review teammates’ work via code reviews to improve understanding.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

PHP

Distributed systems architecture

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or related discipline

HS Diploma

Tools

Symfony

Laravel

Doctrine DBAL

SQL

Job description

Ovia Health, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Labcorp, offers a preventative and proven platform trusted by over 22 million families for daily personalized health engagement with high-touch support, 50+ clinical programs, 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 prioritize pragmatic, working solutions

What you will do:

• Work with a small, inclusive team to ensure our distributed backend systems are performant, resilient, and scalable
• Build out backend APIs and systems that coordinate the delivery of education and call-to-action plans based on user journeys
• Tackle typical problems of cloud-based (AWS) distributed systems including communication, coordination, scalability, resiliency, and consistency
• Review teammates’ work via code reviews to improve understanding and technology
• Promote best practices to improve code quality and developer productivity, leading by example
• Collaborate with engineering and business stakeholders to align requirements and architectural decisions

What we require:

• HS Diploma required
• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related discipline preferred
• Strong software engineering skills and experience in building and testing backend services
• Experience with modern PHP (8+) required
• Experience with Symfony or Laravel, Doctrine DBAL, ORM, and SQL preferred
• 5+ years of team-based development experience
• Understanding of distributed systems architecture

What we offer:

We are a lively, creative team that works hard and laughs a lot. We value our employees and offer:

• Supportive, collaborative environment
• Flexible work schedule and time off policy
• Medical, dental, vision insurance options
• Wellness benefits
• 401k with immediate vesting
• Paid parental leave
• Remote work options within US, preferably near Ovia/Labcorp hubs

Application Window: 5/30/2025

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

Offers based on skills, experience, and internal/external market data.

LBP Eligible: Yes, includes annual bonus based on performance and company results.

Benefits: Employees working 20+ hours/week are eligible for comprehensive benefits; part-time employees for 401(k) only. For details, click here.

Labcorp is an Equal Opportunity Employer: We value diversity and do not tolerate discrimination. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.

We encourage all to apply

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