Senior Backend Engineer, NimbleRx

Swoop; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoop is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services powering NimbleRx’s platform. You will own API features end-to-end, collaborating with Product, Design, and engineering teams while mentoring junior teammates to maintain high-quality code and reliable systems.

Join a fast-growing healthcare tech company leveraging Java, Spring, and SQL to deliver robust, customer-facing web applications with performance and security at the forefront.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend API and services development experience.
• Strong Java, Spring, and SQL proficiency.
• Experience building scalable, customer-facing web apps.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Nice to have: React, Terraform/Terragrunt, AWS.

Responsibilities

• Build a scalable platform, API, and services that people love to use.
• Take ownership of backend features, from design to implementation to release.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns.
• Promote best practices and high-quality development techniques.
• Tackle tough design and technical problems.
• Enhance our systems’ usability and performance, ensuring a consistent user experience.

Skills

Backend APIs

Java

Spring

SQL

React

Terraform/Terragrunt

AWS

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

AWS

Job description

At Swoop, our mission is simple: Improving patient outcomes. As a market leader in AI-driven, data-powered, and privacy-compliant healthcare engagement, we connect the signals that drive earlier diagnosis, better treatment decisions, and sustained adherence.

Our integrated, privacy-safe platform, enables life sciences companies to drive measurable patient and commercial outcomes with actionable intelligence — spanning patient and HCP audience targeting, community engagement, AI-powered web solutions, coordinated omnichannel activation, and prescription fulfillment.

We believe our people are our greatest asset. Swoop fosters a culture of innovation and continuous learning, providing employees with rich opportunities for professional growth. This commitment to our team earned us the "Best Places to Work" recognition from Business Intelligence Group in 2025 and 2026. We are driven by a patient-first philosophy and passionate about leveraging technology to create a healthier future.

After becoming an independent company in 2024, Swoop experienced significant growth and demonstrated an unwavering commitment to innovation, talent development, and enhancing the patient experience. Our acquisition of MyHealthTeam in January 2025 and Nimble in May 2026 helped us further bridging the gap between healthcare brands and patients for more impactful and targeted engagement. Empowering millions of patients nationwide to connect, share resources, and access medically verified information to better manage their health. MyHealthTeam hosts the largest and most engaged patient social networks in healthcare, offering more than 70 condition-specific communities for chronic and rare conditions. As a prescription fulfillment and patient engagement platform, Nimble empowers independent and regional pharmacies to deliver a modern, consumer-friendly healthcare experience while streamlining pharmacy operations.

If you're a driven professional seeking to make a real difference in healthcare marketing at a fast-growing, innovative company, join Swoop and help us revolutionize how brands connect with patients and HCPs.

About The Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will have a hand in architecting the technology and customer experience that are pivotal to multiple web products for patients, pharmacies, and other customers of NimbleRx (www.nimblerx.com).

You will join a team of world-class, highly motivated software engineers who build for performance, reliability, and scalability. You will work closely with other developers, as well as with groups such as Product Management and Design, to understand feature requirements and functional and technical use cases. With your colleagues, you will work to deliver high-quality code on time.

Our engineering culture: We operate with shared trust and no egos. We enjoy being “in this together” and collaborating on the challenges of a rapidly scaling business. We daily live out our company values of empathy, simplicity, autonomy, leadership, ownership, burning curiosity, bias for action, and mentorship. We operate with context, not control, in a highly collaborative environment.

What You'll Do

• Build a scalable platform, API, and services that people love to use.
• Take ownership of backend features, from design to implementation to release.
• Mentor junior engineers and interns.
• Promote best practices and high-quality development techniques.
• Tackle tough design and technical problems.
• Enhance our systems’ usability and performance, ensuring a consistent user experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with backend APIs, services, and platform development
• Rich development experience with Java, Spring, and SQL
• Experience developing scalable, customer-facing, web-based applications
• Excellent communication skills
• Nice to have: experience with React, Terraform/Terragrunt, or AWS

About You

• You are mission-driven and want to write code that makes a difference.
• You take pride in your work and deliver high-quality code on time.
• You are an innovator with good ideas, strong problem-solving abilities, and a results-oriented attitude.
• You value and take responsibility for the quality of your features; you test your own code and review your teammates’ code.
• You have good judgment about project priorities.
• You deliver high-value features with simple and fast solutions.
• You own complex projects end-to-end with minimal guidance. You take a leadership or driver role in the engineering process throughout planning, design, delivery, and maintenance.

The Pay Range For This Role Is

205,000 - 240,000 USD per year (Hybrid (Redwood City, CA, US))