Senior Backend Engineer, NimbleRx

Swoop Airlines and Aviation; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

NimbleRx is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help architect and deliver scalable backend services for our web products used by patients, pharmacies, and other customers. You will work with a world‑class team to ship reliable features that power critical workflows.

You will mentor juniors and peers, promote best practices, and own features end-to-end from design through release, contributing to a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years 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.

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

Java

Spring

SQL

Communication

React

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

AWS

Job description

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.