Plenful · 22 hours ago
Senior Backend Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expPlenful is a healthcare technology company focused on transforming operations through AI solutions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build systems for distributed computing and data workflows, collaborating closely with DevOps and ML teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data Center AutomationHealth CareIT InfrastructureMachine LearningSoftware
Responsibilities
Contribute to the design and evolution of our workflow orchestration system that runs across serverless and containerized environments, processing millions of tasks each month
Implement scheduling, queuing, rate limiting, and retry logic for reliable and fair resource allocation
Build components for state tracking, error handling, timeouts, and cleanup across distributed tasks
Collaborate with DevOps to enhance observability, structured logging, tracing, and deployment automation
Design and optimize schemas for scalable and flexible data storage
Improve query performance and efficiency across large datasets through indexing, caching, and connection pooling
Ensure data integrity, concurrency control, and compliance with data governance standards
Support replication, backups, and disaster recovery efforts in partnership with DevOps
Build and maintain integrations with SFTP, email, databases, spreadsheets, and REST APIs, including credential management and failure recovery
Develop and operate file processing pipelines handling high data volumes across diverse formats (PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON)
Work with healthcare data formats (HL7, X12, EDI) and collaborate with ML/AI teams on data pipelines for model training and inference
Create and maintain webhook handlers, polling services, and event-driven workflows
Take ownership of complex backend projects from design through deployment
Participate in architectural discussions, propose improvements, and help drive high reliability and maintainability standards
Contribute to reducing technical debt and improving operational efficiency
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical discussions
Participate in incident response and postmortems with a focus on prevention and system resilience
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Solid experience with distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and large-scale backend development
Strong database expertise: SQL, schema design, and performance optimization
Solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design)
Experience with large-scale data pipelines and external integrations
Ability to take ownership of projects and collaborate effectively across engineering, DevOps, and ML teams
Proven experience improving reliability, performance, and maintainability in production systems
Strong communication skills for technical discussions and documentation
Benefits
Unlimited PTO
Health insurance
Meal stipend
Health & wellness stipend
Team offsites
401K matching
Stock options
Company
Plenful
Plenful is a no-code workflow automation and AI platform that optimizes healthcare's manual, administrative workflows.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$76MKey Investors
TQ VenturesBessemer Venture Partners
2025-04-30Series B· $50M
2024-05-30Series A· $17M
2023-10-03Seed· $9M
Leadership Team
Joy Liu
Founder & CEO
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Michael Longo
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
Recent News
2025-10-16
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