Staff+ Backend Architect for B2B Healthcare Platform

Bison; San Francisco, Denver (CA, CO); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly office

Catered lunch five days a week

Robust snack program and great coffee

Regular team events

Up to $150/month commuter stipend

Competitive health benefits and 401(k)

Job summary

Frontera is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to own the backend architecture of the clinician-facing provider platform. This high-ownership IC role involves defining technical direction for core systems, beyond feature work.

You will lead patterns for APIs, data modeling, and system design, collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions that empower care teams and families.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with a backend focus.
• Experience operating at Staff+ level influencing technical direction and architecture across teams.
• Proven ability to design and scale backend systems, APIs, and data platforms.
• Strong system design experience including distributed systems and data modeling.
• Production-grade backend services end-to-end ownership from DB design to APIs and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data models powering clinician workflows and internal tools.
• Own scalability, reliability, and performance of backend systems and data pipelines in production.
• Define and evolve backend architecture, API standards, and data modeling across teams.
• Lead technical design for cross-functional initiatives with product, design, and engineering stakeholders.
• Unblock engineers, drive design reviews, and raise engineering standards across the team.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to ensure seamless integration with clinician-facing products.

Skills

Backend design

System scalability

APIs

Distributed systems

Data modeling

Python

Node.js

Tools

PostgreSQL

NoSQL databases

API design

Job description

Frontera is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to own the backend architecture of the clinician-facing provider platform. This high-ownership IC role involves defining technical direction for core systems, beyond feature work.

You will lead patterns for APIs, data modeling, and system design, collaborating with product, design, and engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions that empower care teams and families.