Senior Backend Software Engineer @ Regard

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Salary Range: 175000 to 220000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

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.

About Regard

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.

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)

Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with k8s, AWS services (serverless, etc), OpenAI services
Experience working on a mature enterprise SaaS technology product
Exposure to startup and/or high growth environments
Experience working with health technology
Strong verbal and written communication skills

Hybrid Work | Location | Work Authorization

For this role, Regard is currently only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship, and are within the San Francisco metro area
We expect our Engineers to be in the office at least 2 days per week. We may request more frequent in-office work during the onboarding period and team onsite weeks
Additionally, hybrid employees have the flexibility to work from locations outside of their home office from up to 6 weeks per year

Comp | Perks | Benefits

Eligible for equity
99% employer paid health benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision) + One Medical subscription
18 PTO days/yr + 1 week holiday break
Monthly health & wellness budget
Company-sponsored team retreat + social events
A sabbatical program

Our goal at Regard is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. Regard is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We celebrate diversity and are proud of our supportive, inclusive workplace.

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

Senior Backend Software Engineer

San Francisco

Regard

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