Senior Backend Engineer, Product

What You’ll Do:

Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python with FastAPI or Django, supporting critical clinical and operational workflows

Partner closely with product teams to shape feature requirements, define success metrics, and translate business goals into scalable backend solutions.

Operate as a domain owner — accountable not only for system reliability and performance, but for how your systems drive measurable product and operational outcomes

Own features end-to-end from technical discovery through launch and iteration, using data and feedback to continuously improve outcomes

Drive engineering excellence through best practices in testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization

Actively contribute to building the team’s architectural vision and technical roadmap

Collaborate on code reviews and technical design documents to ensure the consistent application of best practices across relevant domains

Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

5+ years of software engineering experience

Experience architecting, designing and building scalable web applications and distributed systems

Proficiency with Python, relational databases, and frameworks like FastAPI or Django, with hands-on experience in metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning leveraging Ro’s load testing infrastructure and tools like Datadog

Experience partnering closely with Product to scope and deliver user-facing features that drive measurable business impact

Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth on a high-traffic engineering organization, ensuring high performance and availability

Strong intuition for product tradeoffs — balancing speed, scalability, and long-term architecture

Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries, backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems

Strong sense of ownership with the ability + desire to own technical roadmaps and refine ambiguous problems

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners to create the best possible products

Bonus Skills:

Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries

Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services

We’ve Got You Covered:

Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership

Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements

Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits

Pet insurance

Student loan refinancing

Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness

We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, and sexuality to apply.