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Backend Engineer (Infrastructure)

Reposted 12 Days Ago
In-Office
San Francisco, CA
Mid level
In-Office
San Francisco, CA
Mid level
As a Backend Engineer, you'll ensure system reliability, automate workflows, design data schemas and pipelines, and resolve production incidents.
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You will be a great fit if you…
  • Engineer for reliability and correctness, not just functionality

  • Diagnose and resolve live production incidents with minimal disruption

  • Automate away repetitive work and build tooling that makes engineering faster and safer

  • Design schemas and pipelines for large-scale datasets to power applied AI

  • Are comfortable working across databases, caches, proxies, and job orchestration systems

Some things we’ve built
  • Data pipelines processing $1B+ in insurance claims

  • Systems that eliminate thousands of hours of paperwork every month

  • A sync engine backed by encrypted SQLite in the browser, enabling 100ms experiences for healthcare payments and patient ledgers

Technology we use

We invest heavily in productivity. Engineers should have the best tools for the job and the freedom to choose them.

  • Python (Django), Postgres, Redis

  • TypeScript, React, Tailwind

  • Google Cloud Platform, Vercel

  • Linear, Slack, Notion

Top Skills

Django
Google Cloud Platform
Postgres
Python
React
Redis
Tailwind
Typescript
Vercel
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Lassie San Francisco, California, USA Office

San Francisco, CA, United States

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