Senior Backend Engineer, API

Description

We’re looking for a driven Backend Engineer to join our team and help eliminate the financial complexity of healthcare. This role will support building the core pricing systems that help patients and providers negotiate lower prices in healthcare. We value creative, outside-the-box thinkers that back their ideas with technical knowledge and action.

Responsibilities

• Design and build strong, resilient, and robust APIs, libraries, and tools to power healthcare pricing products
• Be responsible for full software development lifecycle: design, development, testing, and operating in production
• Work cross-functionally with Product and subject matter experts to conceptualize, prototype, and build API endpoints
• Draft internal and external technical documentation
• Seek and prioritize technical and product feedback from internal customers 
• Iterate quickly with an eye towards value 

Here’s what you bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience/knowledge. We are happy to work with strong candidates with non-traditional educational backgrounds
• 5+ years demonstrated experience in backend development, building API endpoints and building scalable backend systems 
• Experience designing APIs, and building endpoints and backend systems in Python
• Experience working with different programming languages (Go, Java / Kotlin / Scala / etc)
• Experience creating libraries and tools for engineers and operations
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases 
• Experience with OLAP datastore technologies such as Apache Pinot
• Familiarity with software engineering development lifecycles 
• Entrepreneurial mindset: you prioritize tasks with an eye for evolving business needs. You can problem solve independently
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment

Salary

The salary range for this full-time position is $170,000-$185,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level, and reflect the minimum and maximum salary across all US locations (they are location agnostic). Within the range, individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We will talk about compensation in our first conversation and be transparent throughout the process about which level we think is the best match for you in our organization. Please note that the salary range does not reflect total compensation, which includes base salary, benefits, and company stock options.

At Turquoise, we're making healthcare pricing simpler, more transparent, and lower cost for everyone. Have you or a family member ever gotten an MRI, a lab, or even a straightforward surgery without knowing the cost in advance? That's bonkers, right? We're working to fix that.
We're a Series B startup backed by top VCs a16z, Box Group, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global, Adams Street, and Yosemite. Most importantly, we're an accomplished group of folks (moonlighting as authors, bass players, improv instructors, chefs, linguists, and trivia buffs) with a passion for improving healthcare. We're eager to find ambitious and well-rounded teammates to join us on this mission.

Job Location

Turquoise Health is a fully remote company based in the US. We work with team members and contractors in the US and around the world, but we operate on US business hours and work with clients entirely based in the US. For this role, we are seeking US-based candidates.

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