Senior Python Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Domain Expert

Free Market Health; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

100% employer-paid individual medical,

vision premiums

Employer HSA contribution

Paid parental leave

401(k) match

Transportation and parking benefits

Flexible, collaborative work环境

Job summary

Free Market Health in Pittsburgh is seeking a senior software engineer to own a core business domain and build backend services, APIs, and integrations in Python. You will become the go-to expert for your domain, guiding data flows, pharmacy integrations, and AI-enabled tooling to improve reliability and speed.

You'll collaborate with product and operations to shape solutions, review designs across teams, and help other engineers succeed in your area.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep backend Python experience.
• Ownership of complex production systems and domain expert credibility.
• Experience with system integrations, data pipelines, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and SQL Server.
• Hands-on with agentic coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor, including writing agent instructions and MCP integrations.
• Curiosity about the business and a habit of asking why before building.
• Clear writing and ability to encode knowledge into reusable tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and integrations in Python, with frontend work in React when needed.
• Become the subject matter expert for a business domain, including referral workflows, pharmacy integrations, and the data that moves between them.
• Partner with Product and operations teams to understand problems and shape solutions.
• Review designs and code across teams that touch your domain.
• Build and improve the agents, skills, rules, and context that help engineers work in your domain with AI coding tools.
• Bring agentic development practices to the team: spec-driven work, delegating implementation to agents, and validating what they produce.
• Improve reliability and data quality in the systems you own.

Skills

Python

Backend engineering

System integrations

Data pipelines

REST APIs

Event-driven

SQL Server

Claude Code

Cursor

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Free Market Health in Pittsburgh is seeking a senior software engineer to own a core business domain and build backend services, APIs, and integrations in Python. You will become the go-to expert for your domain, guiding data flows, pharmacy integrations, and AI-enabled tooling to improve reliability and speed.

You'll collaborate with product and operations to shape solutions, review designs across teams, and help other engineers succeed in your area.