Backend Software Engineer, Vida Health
Data Platform
$120-130k
More information about location
Virtual care for physical and mental illnesses
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Virtual care for physical and mental illnesses
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-130k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform lives by addressing both physical and mental health trough personalized, human-centered care.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree at a minimum
- 2+ years of professional experience building backend software
- Strong programming fundamentals- we primarily use Python
- Experience working with relational databases and SQL
- Experience building systems that process, transform, or move significant amounts of data
- A solid understanding of testing, debugging, APIs, and common distributed-system failure modes
- Experience deploying or operating software in a cloud environment
- Good instincts around correctness, including validation, idempotency, retries, and edge cases
- The ability to get into an unfamiliar codebase, understand how it works, and improve it without making it more complicated
- Clear written communication and an ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs
- You do not need previous healthcare experience or experience with every technology we use
Desirable
- Data-intensive backend systems, ETL/ELT pipelines, or event-driven architectures
- PostgreSQL, analytical warehouses, or data modeling
- Infrastructure as code, containers, or workflow orchestration
- Identity resolution, entity matching, eligibility, claims, or other healthcare data
- Regulated or security-sensitive production environments
What the job involves
- Vida is looking for a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that supports much of Vida's business
- Our team builds the systems that turn data from health plans, employers, and other partners into reliable information that Vida's products and operations can use
- That includes member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, and the data foundations behind reporting and analytics
- You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, and take features from design through production
- You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently
- Build backend services that ingest, validate, reconcile, and serve data from external partners
- Develop systems for member identity, eligibility, billing, and other core business domains
- Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines used across Vida
- Make systems resilient to incomplete, duplicated, delayed, and inconsistent real-world data
- Build safe ways to retry, replay, and recover data when something goes wrong
- Improve the reliability, observability, testing, and performance of production systems
- Work with Engineering, Product, and Operations to figure out what needs to be built when the requirements are incomplete or messy
- Additional responsibilities as needed
Our take
Technology presents a vast range of solutions to help improve the quality of care that individuals can access, including health tracking apps, digital medical appointments and virtual health coaching. However, these innovations have ultimately resulted in a tangle of resources and solutions which can be difficult or inconvenient to access.
Vida Health integrates a wide variety of these innovations in the healthcare industry into packages, aiming to provide improved healthcare to individuals, employers and health insurers with an organized selection of physical and mental health services. This approach is more convenient and effective than finding and signing on to individual services, and Vida has accordingly grown a large customer base including the likes of PayPal, eBay and Prudential.
With the mass of options available to improve healthcare becoming overwhelming, Vida Health has been smart to identify the need for an integrated solution. Investors agree - it has attracted significant levels of funding. Going forward the company is well poised to grow further as employers increasingly realize the importance of supporting their employees' mental and physical health needs.
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Insights
-28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2023
$28.5m
LATE VC
May 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $216.5m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Joe M.
(CEO & President)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2023, Joe was CEO and President at WithMe Health and PokitDok. He also spent over 4 years at Willis Towers Watson as COO of Exchange Solutions and as President of Extend Insurance Services & HEad of Individual Exchange.
Richard Frank
(CMO)Richard joined Vida Health in 2022 as a Senior VP of Medical Affairs, moving into the role of CMO later that same year. He is currently a Board Member at Conversio Health, a Medical Advisor at PharmD Live and Warburg Pincus and a Scientific Advisor at MyndYou.
Mike Rolla
(CGO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2024, Mike was the CRO at AliveCor and CGO at CCS.
Jason Macaleer
(CSO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2025, Jason spent over 2 years at Transcarent as an Executive VP of Sales and as Chief Commercial Officer. He also spent 2 years at Teladoc Health and 5 years at Livongo.
Tamara Bohlig
(CMO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2024, Tamara was an Associate/CMO at The CMO Syndicate and a Fractional CMO, Growth Marketer & Executive Advisor at Spark CMO.
David Osborne
(CPO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2025, David was a VP/GM of Sword Predict AI at Sword Health. He was also a Director in the Office of the CEO at Noom for over 3 years.
Veeneta Lakhani
(COO)Veeneta joined Vida Health in 2019 as an SVP of Health Services, moving into the role of CGO in 2021 and COO in 2025. Previously she founded Incipio Services where she served as a Principal & Advisor for over 7 years. She also spent 9 years at Anthem in various VP roles.
Ravi Guha
(CFO)Prior to joining Vida Health in 2023, Ravi was the CFO at Heal for nearly 4 years. He also spent nearly 18 years at Canyon Partners as a Managing Director.
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