About this role
Responsibilities
- Backend Architecture & System Design: Leads architecture of the backend platform — service and API structure, asynchronous and real-time processing, rate limiting and resiliency, and relational/document data modeling — documenting decisions for stakeholders.
- Senior-Level Backend Feature Development: Owns design and implementation of the most complex backend features using Node.js and TypeScript, delivering production-quality code that sets the team standard.
- Node.js Services & Next.js API Development : Designs and implements complex Next.js API routes and Node.js backend services — API design and contracts, authentication/authorization, caching, messaging, and relational/document database design and access — enabling frontend and mobile teams to build on stable, well-documented interfaces.
- Technical Leadership & Mentoring : Provides day-to-day technical leadership to the Node sub-team — leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and establishing and enforcing Node coding standards.
- Performance, Testing & CI/CD Ownership : Owns backend performance optimization, testing strategy, and CI/CD pipeline governance, ensuring HIPAA-compliant, secure, and high-availability services.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of professional software development experience with primary backend expertise
- Deep, demonstrable proficiency with Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js (API routes) building production services and APIs
- Strong relational and document database design experience, and experience deploying and operating services on a cloud platform (Azure preferred)
Preferred
- 10+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development
- Experience in healthcare technology, health insurance, or another regulated industry
- Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7 FHIR, X12, NCPDP) as applied to data integration and API design
- Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets), event-driven architecture, GraphQL/tRPC, and monorepo tooling
Telecommuting Requirements
- This is a remote position. Our whole company works remotely. Company headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. Candidates must reside in the Eastern or Central time zones.
- Company business hours are weekdays 9-5 CST.
- As part of the interview process, finalists will be required to attend an in-person interview at our Dallas headquarters.
- Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separate from other living areas and provides information privacy.
- Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure.
- Must live in a location that receives an existing high-speed internet connection/service.