Staff Backend Architect for B2B Provider Platform

Frontera; Kentucky; On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Frontera is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to own the backend architecture and scaling of our clinician-facing provider platform. This high-ownership IC role defines technical direction for core backend systems rather than just implementing features.

You will lead patterns for APIs, data modeling, and system design, partnering with product, design, and engineering to deliver scalable solutions, and act as a force multiplier unblocking engineers and driving design reviews across teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend focus.
• Experience operating at a Staff+ level, influencing technical direction across teams.
• Design and scale backend systems, APIs, and data platforms serving multiple products.
• Strong system design across distributed systems, data modeling, reliability, scalability, performance.
• Production-grade backend services end-to-end from DB design to APIs and integrations.
• Proficiency in Python, Node.js, or similar; experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Comfort in ambiguous, fast-moving environments; able to turn loosely defined problems into scalable systems.
• Healthcare or regulated environment experience a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data models that power clinician workflows, reporting, and internal tools.
• Own the scalability, reliability, and performance of backend systems and data pipelines in production.
• Define and evolve the backend architecture, including API design standards, data modeling patterns, and system interoperability across teams.
• Lead technical design for complex, cross-functional initiatives, partnering with product, design, and engineering stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions.
• Act as a technical leader and force multiplier by unblocking engineers, driving design reviews, and raising the overall engineering bar across the team.
• Partner closely with front-end engineers to ensure seamless integration of backend services into clinician-facing products and internal tools.

Skills

Backend experience

Staff+ influence

Python/Node.js

Tools

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

API design

Job description

Frontera is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to own the backend architecture and scaling of our clinician-facing provider platform. This high-ownership IC role defines technical direction for core backend systems rather than just implementing features.

You will lead patterns for APIs, data modeling, and system design, partnering with product, design, and engineering to deliver scalable solutions, and act as a force multiplier unblocking engineers and driving design reviews across teams.