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What You’ll Do
- Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI
- Operate as an owner within your team's domain and proactively assess and improve system performance and reliability
- Drive engineering excellence through best practices in testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization
- Actively contribute to building the team’s architectural vision and technical roadmap
- Collaborate on code reviews and technical design documents to ensure the consistent application of best practices across relevant domains
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers from adjacent teams to ensure alignment and technical integrity across boundaries
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems
What You’ll Bring to the Team
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience architecting, designing and building scalable web applications and distributed systems
- Proficiency with Python, relational databases, and frameworks like FastAPI or Django, with hands-on experience in metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning leveraging Ro’s load testing infrastructure and tools like Datadog
- Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth (ideally in a mid-to-late stage startup environment), ensuring high performance and availability
- Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries-backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
- Strong sense of ownership with the ability and desire to own technical roadmaps and refine ambiguous problems
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners to create the best possible products
Bonus Skills
- Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services
We’ve Got You Covered
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO
- Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements
- Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits
- Pet insurance…
