Senior Backend Engineer, Garner Health

• 5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
• Experience building building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
• Strong proficiency in Python is required
• Familiarity with TypeScript is a bonus, but not required
• A strong understanding of the AWS menu of services
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience deploying, supporting, operating, and scaling applications running on Kubernetes
• Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices including sprints
• A willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
• Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment
• A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

• We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is excited about our mission, can deliver across the tech stack, and is eager to learn and apply new techniques and technologies. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of our Payments team
• Building and maintaining the back-end services that power Garner’s core business
• Participating in an on-call rotation by responding to system outages and support escalations from internal stakeholders
• Collaborate across disciplines to provide timely and accurate technical designs, work estimates, and answers to technical questions
• Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
• Design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
• Ideate on new features and work with data to find new insights
• Research and work with the latest tools and technologies
• Collaborate using our tech stack, including Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Kubernetes

Total funding: $61.3m

An overworked US healthcare system has resulted in long waits and expensive prices. Due to rising costs, the health insurance industry often leads to patients not accessing the care that they need. Garner Health creates digital services that allow patients to find a medical expert that fits their specific needs, whatever their insurance circumstances are.