Senior Backend Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll join a high-trust, high-impact team helping to shape the future of healthcare technology. You’ll work in a deeply collaborative environment, partnering with teammates across the U.S. and India to design and deliver resilient, scalable backend systems that power critical features in our platform.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using 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.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Golang 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.

Requirements

• 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 Description

Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.