Senior Backend Engineer (Python/AWS) for Healthcare Data

Medix Technology; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Medix Technology is hiring a Software Engineer to develop and support applications that handle complex healthcare data. You’ll join an established engineering team, build new backend features, improve existing workflows, and help keep production systems running reliably.

The work is roughly 60% development and 40% application support. Strong Python and AWS experience is required, full-stack is welcome but not essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software or application development experience.
• Strong Python, SQL, and AWS skills, including experience building cloud-native applications.
• Healthcare data experience; medical or pharmacy claims experience is especially valuable.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, serverless functions, and data processing workflows.
• Develop application features and integrations using Python, SQL, and AWS.
• Work with services such as Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, Glue, S3, RDS/Aurora, and Redshift.
• Write and tune SQL queries, views, and stored procedures.
• Investigate production issues, fix defects, and improve application performance and reliability.
• Contribute to automated tests, GitHub workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments.
• Collaborate with engineers, product partners, and analysts throughout development and ongoing support.
• Apply appropriate security controls when handling sensitive healthcare information.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Source control

Automated testing

CI/CD

Relational databases

Healthcare data

Tools

Lambda

API Gateway

Step Functions

Glue

S3

RDS/Aurora

Redshift

GitHub

Job description

Medix Technology is hiring a Software Engineer to develop and support applications that handle complex healthcare data. You’ll join an established engineering team, build new backend features, improve existing workflows, and help keep production systems running reliably.

The work is roughly 60% development and 40% application support. Strong Python and AWS experience is required, full-stack is welcome but not essential.