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Ro · 18 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$212K/yr - $292K/yr

7+ years exp

Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company dedicated to helping patients achieve their health goals through effective care. The Staff Software Engineer will serve as a technical leader and mentor, shaping the future of Ro's platform and driving the delivery of impactful systems for patients and providers.

Hospital & Health Care

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI

Operate as an owner and technical leader 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

Define and own technical roadmaps, breaking down ambiguous and complex problem spaces into clear project plans and deliverables

Mentor and collaborate with engineers across levels, raising the technical bar and fostering growth across the team

Lead cross-functional technical efforts — working 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

Qualification

PythonFastAPIDistributed systemsTechnical leadershipRelational databasesPerformance optimizationData-driven performance tuningTechnical roadmapsTelehealth experienceMentoringCollaboration

Required

7 - 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience in roles involving technical leadership

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 to understand and break down complex problem spaces into technical roadmaps

Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, foster collaboration, and set technical direction

Preferred

Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries

Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services

Benefits

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

Student loan refinancing

Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness

Company

Ro

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Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company with a mission of helping patients achieve their health goals by delivering the easiest, most effective care possible.

Founded in 2017

New York, NY, US

201-500 employees

https://ro.co

H1B Sponsorship

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