Senior Backend Software Engineer, Regard

• BS in Computer Science
• 6+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
• Proficient in Python with demonstrated ability to write and maintain production-quality code
• Able to participate in on-call operational support for their areas of responsibility
• Able to travel up to 4 weeks a year for company co-working and/or retreat weeks
• Practical experience leveraging AI coding tools in day-to-day software development (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Codex)

Desirable

• As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Regard, you’ll play a leading role in building our products. You’ll be responsible for designing and developing critical backend services and driving them end-to-end through the full product lifecycle: ideation, planning, design, execution, deployment, and iteration
• We expect our senior engineers to be true technical leaders by driving architectural decisions, mentoring teammates, and leading major projects that help set the bar for engineering excellence. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and fellow engineers to ship high-quality solutions that empower physicians and improve patient care
• Our mission is to bring world-class healthcare to everyone. Regard is the world’s first comprehensive, automated diagnosis tool. Regard streamlines clinical and revenue cycle efforts to dramatically improve hospital finances, patient safety, and physician happiness
• We are excited by challenges, mission-oriented work, and meaningful relationships. We work closely with some of the top health systems in the country and are leading the change that healthcare - one of the largest and most inefficient industries in the world - needs. We want you to join us
• Collaborate with product and design team members to best design medium to large projects balancing speed to market, user experience, business goals, and technical architecture quality
• Own medium to large backend services and drive improvements across system design, observability, testing, performance, and support
• Drive backend development practices, patterns, and processes along with the other Regard backend experts
• Mentor and review code from less experienced developers in our backend services across backend job processing, API, and other services
• Maintain and improve the quality of the codebase and tooling in your area of responsibility by proactive fixes and improvements and through identifying and proposing projects to improve the overall backend codebase
• Participate in operational activities supporting product areas you own including on-call, monitoring, and production support
• Contribute as necessary across the stack (front end, infrastructure, AWS, etc) in order to unblock projects
• Our Tech Stack:
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Tiptap
• Backend: Python (FastAPI, Flask), PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery
• Infrastructure & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (SQS, SNS), GitLab CI/CD
• APIs & AI: OpenAPI, OpenAI (GPT models)

• All candidates must successfully complete a background check as part of the hiring process