Senior Software Engineer, Backend

The role

You will design and build scalable backend services in Python and FastAPI for Ro's healthcare platform. You will work with Product, Design, Data and other teams on patient onboarding, care delivery and insurance workflows.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable, reliable and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI
• Own your team's domain and proactively assess and improve system performance and reliability
• Drive engineering excellence through testing, monitoring, observability and performance optimization
• Help build the team's architectural vision and technical roadmap
• Review code and technical design documents
• Work with product managers, designers and engineers from adjacent teams
• Take part in on-call rotations to keep production systems reliable

Required qualifications

• 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
• Hands-on experience with metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning, including tools like Datadog
• Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, including data consistency, communication patterns and service boundaries
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to refine ambiguous problems
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineers and cross-functional partners

Nice to have

• Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries
• Experience decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services

Benefits

• Full medical, dental and vision insurance, plus OneMedical membership
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible PTO
• Wellbeing and Learning & Growth reimbursements
• Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
• Pet insurance
• Student loan refinancing
• Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling and fitness

Before you apply

• Apply by contacting talent@ro.co if you need a reasonable accommodation in the application or interview process

About the company

Ro is building a vertically integrated healthcare platform that connects telehealth, diagnostics, pharmacy and logistics. The company says it is recognized as a top workplace in Health Care and New York.