Connie Health · 13 hours ago
Senior Backend Engineer
Boston, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
6+ years expConnie Health is a fast-growing Medicare brokerage on a mission to empower older Americans to make confident, worry-free Medicare plan decisions. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own and evolve core policy status tracking and commissions payment systems that are foundational to their Medicare platform.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Own the backend architecture and implementation for policy status tracking, including policy lifecycle state machines, transitions, and reconciliation with external carrier systems
Design, build, and maintain the commissions calculation and payment systems, ensuring correctness, auditability, and scalability as volume and complexity grow
Build and evolve APIs and internal services using TypeScript and NestJS, deployed on AWS
Partner closely with Finance, Operations, and Data teams to ensure policy and commission data serves as a reliable source of truth for reporting, payouts, and forecasting
Design and maintain data models in Postgres for transactional correctness and Redshift for analytical and financial reporting needs
Lead technical decision-making around data consistency, idempotency, backfills, and correction workflows for financially sensitive systems
Improve system observability and reliability by implementing monitoring, alerting, and tooling with Datadog to detect and resolve discrepancies quickly
Identify and mitigate risks related to data integrity, performance, and regulatory compliance
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent industry experience
6+ years of professional backend engineering experience, with ownership of business-critical systems in production
Strong proficiency in TypeScript and modern backend frameworks, preferably NestJS
Strong experience designing backend services with complex domain logic and stateful workflows
Deep proficiency with relational databases (e.g., Postgres), including schema design, transactional integrity, and query optimization
Experience building APIs that support internal tools, reporting systems, and operational workflows
Demonstrated ability to reason about financial correctness, edge cases, and failure modes in distributed systems
Strong experience operating backend systems in AWS
Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills, especially in data-heavy or financially sensitive domains
Clear and effective communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
Experience building commissions, billing, payments, or other financially sensitive systems
Experience integrating with external partners, carriers, or CRMs such as Salesforce
Experience using Datadog for application performance monitoring, logging, alerting, and production incident response
Proficiency with Docker for containerization and deployment
Prior experience in the healthcare or insurance industry, particularly with Medicare
Benefits
Comprehensive health insurance plans.
Competitive salary and equity packages.
Unlimited vacation policy and generous holiday observances.
Monthly work from home stipend.
Company
Connie Health
Connie Health empowers older Americans to make confident, worry-free healthcare decisions.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$16MKey Investors
Khosla Ventures
2021-07-28Series A· $13M
2020-02-01Seed· $3M
Leadership Team
Oded Eran
Co-Founder & CEO
David Luna
Co-Founder and President
Recent News
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