Recruiting from Scratch · 3 weeks ago
Senior Backend Engineer (Data Platform)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expRecruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidates for our clients. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a healthcare startup that is rethinking health insurance. The role involves designing and building data pipelines and backend systems to support claims processing and provider payments, ensuring efficient operations in healthcare.
Staffing Agency
Responsibilities
Design, build, and scale data pipelines and backend systems supporting claims, payments, and healthcare operations
Develop automations for provider notifications, patient support workflows, and internal operations
Own data flows across ingestion, transformation, validation, and persistence
Partner cross-functionally with Operations, Engineering, and business stakeholders to understand workflows and reduce manual overhead
Rapidly prototype solutions and refactor them into clean, maintainable production code
Contribute to the long-term evolution of the data platform as data volume and product scope increase
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience (4+ years considered for exceptional candidates)
Strong Python experience, including refactoring and maintaining production code
Experience designing and operating data pipelines, ETLs, or backend systems at scale
Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders
Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving startup environments
Preferred
Startup experience, especially at 10–50 person companies
Familiarity with Flask, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy
Experience working with large or messy datasets
Healthcare or healthtech experience (claims, EHRs, vendor integrations)
Thoughtful experience using AI tools in regulated environments
Benefits
Flexible / unlimited paid time off
Medical insurance
Multiple annual onsite events in NYC and key markets
Opportunity to build mission-critical infrastructure with real-world impact
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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