Senior Backend Engineer - Go, AWS, Postgres | Health Tech

Future; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) plan

Flexible Paid Time Off

Future Membership

Wellness stipend

Remote first

Job summary

Future is building a personalized guidance system for lifelong health. As a Backend Engineer, you will design, implement, and test APIs for new products and services, while maintaining and optimizing existing systems with a focus on database performance.

You will collaborate across stacks, stay current with best practices, and serve as on-call approximately one week per month, ensuring reliability and scalability for a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of production development experience, specifically working on backend / API.
• Experience managing Docker-based microservice architecture.
• Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment.
• Nice to have: experience with ETL and optimized database performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and test APIs for new products, features, and services.
• Maintain and optimize existing systems, with emphasis on database-related performance.
• Collaborate with other engineers across the stack and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Keep up to date with technologies and industry best practices, and mentor teammates to do so.
• Serve as on-call engineer approximately one week per month, triaging issues during non-working hours.

Skills

Product thinking

Startup mindset

End-user focus

Tools

Go

AWS

Docker (ECS)

Postgres (RDS)

Job description

Future is building a personalized guidance system for lifelong health. As a Backend Engineer, you will design, implement, and test APIs for new products and services, while maintaining and optimizing existing systems with a focus on database performance.

You will collaborate across stacks, stay current with best practices, and serve as on-call approximately one week per month, ensuring reliability and scalability for a fast-moving startup.