Senior Back-end Engineer (N)

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

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.