Backend Engineer - Tech Lead

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
Hybrid
Senior level
Healthtech
We envision a world where all consumers enjoy access to the best expertise to prevent, treat, and cure illness.
The Role
Lead backend engineering for DexCare's platform: drive backend architecture, build and scale core services and data infrastructure, define API standards, mentor engineers, implement test automation, manage cloud/Kubernetes deployments, design DB schemas/migrations, work with message queues and event-driven systems, and participate in on-call rotation.
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Who is DexCare?
DexCare optimizes time in healthcare, streamlining patient access, reducing waits, and enhancing overall experiences. Guided by our mission – Nobody waits for care – DexCare addresses tech gaps by aligning supply and demand to modernize healthcare infrastructures for an inclusive ecosystem. We are equally committed to our DEIB mission: Creating an inclusive workplace where diversity drives innovation, equity ensures fairness, and belonging strengthens collaboration, enabling everyone to thrive. 
 
What is DexCare?
DexCare, a digital care orchestration platform, streamlines care delivery logistics. It empowers healthcare systems to predict constraints and precisely schedule services, optimizecapacity, and cuts operational costs. Currently serving 57 million patients, including Kaiser Permanente and Providence, DexCare ushers in a new era of digital-care access, ensuring health systems can efficiently track and deliver every hour of capacity for consumer ease. 
 
For more information, visit www.dexcare.com or follow us on LinkedIn

About the Role 

DexCare is looking for a Senior Back End Engineer, Tech Lead who will expand the efforts around the DexCare platform. If you are an experienced back-end engineer who is excited about getting in on the ground floor of a fast-growing startup with a well-established team and multiple large and respected clients, this might be the opportunity for you! As an engineer in this role, you will be a key part of building and scaling our core services and data infrastructure from the ground up. You will drive architectural decisions for back-end systems, define API standards, and mentor engineers across the team. Candidates should be prepared to interact daily with other engineers, as well as product managers, product designers, and solution architects. 

What You'll Do:

    • Be a team player and successfully get buy-in from your team as well as champion the team’s back-end strategy 

    • Proficiency at building out highly testable services with strong contracts 

    • Proficient with test automation frameworks and validating across an array of code configurations 

    • Strong experience configuring and maintaining a SaaS solution built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes (including Helm) with Docker containers 

    • Comfort designing and interacting with SQL and NoSQL databases, including DB schema changes and migrations 

    • Participate in on-call rotation 

What You'll Bring:

    • 7 years acting as a team lead with demonstrable experience driving architectural solutions and mentoring peers 

    • 7 years of relevant on-the-job experience shipping enterprise software using SOA, and delivering solutions end to end 

    • 5 years building out services using TypeScript with Node.js 

    • 5 years building out services using Python 

    • 7 years of working with a strongly typed, object-oriented language 

    • 3 years of experience building platforms utilizing message queues and pub/sub models (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS) 

    • 3 years designing and maintaining RESTful and event-driven APIs at scale 

    • Experience designing and building agentic AI systems, including orchestration of multi-step AI workflows, tool use, and integration of large language models into production back end services 

    • Experience using Claude Code for AI-assisted development, including leveraging agentic workflows to accelerate test authoring, framework development, and code reviews 

Preferred Experience:

    • Experience influencing other teams’ roadmap and architectural designs 

    • Experience using logging and metric tools such as Splunk and DataDog with focus on monitoring and improving system uptime and performance 

DexCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer
 
DexCare is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, caste, religion, colour, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, or any other status protected under applicable Indian law. DexCare provides reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities, in line with the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

Skills Required

  • 7 years acting as a team lead with demonstrable experience driving architectural solutions and mentoring peers
  • 7 years relevant on-the-job experience shipping enterprise software using SOA and delivering solutions end to end
  • 5 years building services using TypeScript with Node.js
  • 5 years building services using Python
  • 7 years working with a strongly typed, object-oriented language
  • 3 years building platforms utilizing message queues and pub/sub models (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SNS/SQS)
  • 3 years designing and maintaining RESTful and event-driven APIs at scale
  • Experience designing and building agentic AI systems, including orchestration of multi-step AI workflows and LLM integration into production back ends
  • Experience using Claude Code for AI-assisted development and agentic workflows
  • Proficiency building highly testable services with strong contracts and test automation frameworks
  • Strong experience configuring and maintaining a SaaS solution built on AWS and Kubernetes (including Helm) with Docker containers
  • Comfort designing and interacting with SQL and NoSQL databases, including DB schema changes and migrations
  • Participate in on-call rotation
  • Experience influencing other teams' roadmap and architectural designs
  • Experience using logging and metric tools such as Splunk and DataDog
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The Company
HQ: Seattle, WA
172 Employees
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

DexCare is a data-driven intelligence company making access to healthcare easier and better for everyone. We enable patients to get the care they need faster, easier, more affordably, with better results. We enable providers to see more patients, easily and more effectively through different modalities. We enable health systems to utilize resources more efficiently and effectively, lower costs, grow revenue, and build enduring relationships with patients and providers.

Why Work With Us

DexCare is a series B venture-backed healthtech startup backed by leading healthcare investors. DexCare is led by a customer-focused mission-driven team experienced in building successful, innovative, and transformative solutions to healthcare’s biggest problems. Join our team and lend your talent to continue moving the initiatives forward.

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