Senior Back-end Engineer (N)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Back-end Engineer (N) based in United States.

This is a senior engineering opportunity focused on building secure, scalable, and high-performance backend systems for digital health platforms. You will design APIs, services, and infrastructure that support web and mobile products used by enterprise healthcare organizations. The role is primarily backend and cloud focused, with approximately 80% of the work centered on backend engineering and infrastructure. You will work closely with Product, Front-End, Data, and DevOps teams in a modern, collaborative engineering environment. Your work will contribute to systems that must meet demanding healthcare security and compliance standards. The position offers the opportunity to solve complex technical challenges while working with cloud-native technologies and modern development practices. You will also have opportunities to explore AI-powered tools that improve engineering productivity and automation.

Accountabilities:: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable server-side components, APIs, and backend services.

Build RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs, business logic, database queries, and relational data models in collaboration with Product and Front-End teams.

Develop and maintain backend services using TypeScript and Node.js, with deployments across AWS and Kubernetes environments.

Contribute to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation using Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and related technologies.

Apply strong security and engineering practices to support compliance with HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, and other applicable healthcare requirements.

Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize backend performance, reliability, scalability, and observability.

Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code supported by appropriate unit and integration testing.

Contribute to frontend development using React when needed, while maintaining a primary focus on backend and cloud engineering.

Collaborate with Product, Data, DevOps, and other engineering stakeholders throughout agile development cycles.

Participate in sprint planning, implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement using tools such as Jira, Confluence, and GitHub.

Explore and adopt AI-powered development tools and automation techniques to improve engineering efficiency and reduce development time.

Requirements:

5+ years of professional backend software development experience, preferably within SaaS, healthcare technology, or digital health environments.

Strong expertise in TypeScript and Node.js, with solid experience developing RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL servers.

Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and relational database design, queries, and data modeling.

Strong experience with AWS services and Kubernetes-based container orchestration.

Solid understanding of microservices architecture, backend scalability, security best practices, and cloud-native development.

Experience with Docker, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code practices.

Familiarity with healthcare security and compliance frameworks, particularly HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST.

Experience working in fast-paced, iterative, and agile product development environments.

Some experience with React or frontend development is beneficial, although deep frontend expertise is not required.

Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Ability to work proactively, independently, and with strong attention to detail in a distributed team environment.

Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal.

Interest in learning and applying AI tools to accelerate software development, backend engineering, and automation.

Candidates must be based in a LATAM country.

Benefits:

Competitive salary paid in USD.

100% remote work environment.

Opportunity to collaborate directly with an international engineering team and gain experience working with U.S.-based clients.

Exposure to modern technologies across backend development, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, DevOps, and AI-assisted engineering.

Opportunity to contribute to meaningful digital health solutions focused on improving behavioral health and whole-person care.

Collaborative, culturally diverse, and distributed working environment.

Opportunity to work on complex, high-impact engineering challenges across the full software development lifecycle.

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