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Weave · 15 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer

Weave is a company on a mission to elevate the patient experience by providing healthcare practices with essential tools for efficiency. The Senior Backend Engineer will work collaboratively to design and deliver scalable backend systems that enhance the platform's capabilities for over 30,000 customers.
Telecom & CommunicationsSaaSHealthcareSoftwareMedicalSmall and Medium BusinessesUnified CommunicationsVoIP
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Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Go (Golang) microservices
Drive technical architecture and contribute to long-term system health by anticipating scaling and maintenance needs
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact features
Participate in system design reviews, propose and implement robust solutions, and contribute to Weave’s overall engineering strategy
Own the quality, reliability, and observability of your code from development to production
Help plan and execute projects from inception to delivery, with a strong sense of ownership and outcome-orientation
Mentor peers and junior engineers by sharing your knowledge and encouraging best practices
Participate in on-call rotation and escalation as needed, providing hands-on support during critical incidents and mentoring team members through complex production issues
Establish and maintain operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for your team's services

Qualification

GoRESTful APIsDistributed systemsRelational databasesCloud environmentsDocker/KubernetesObservability toolingTechnical mentoringCross-functional collaboration

Required

5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Go, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Go preferred or willingness to learn)
Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services
Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis)
Experience working with relational databases and SQL
Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systems

Preferred

You've deployed and maintained services in cloud environments, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
You're comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes, observability tooling (metrics, alerts, tracing), and service reliability
You've worked with protobufs/gRPC, or Temporal, and have experience breaking monoliths into microservices
You're thoughtful about technical debt and scalability, and you write code with both today and the future in mind
You value cross-functional collaboration and can explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
You lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around you

Company

Weave makes communicating with customers easier for businesses by integrating features like texting, phone service, fax, and reviews.

H1B Sponsorship

Weave has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (3)
2023 (3)
2022 (1)
2021 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$168M
Key Investors
Tiger Global ManagementLead Edge CapitalCatalyst Investors
2021-11-11IPO
2019-10-24Series D· $70M
2018-12-06Series C· $37.5M

Leadership Team

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Brooke Shreeve
Chief People Officer
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Erin Goodsell
Chief Legal Officer
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