Oura is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to create features that enable new hardware capabilities and interaction modes, helping members be more focused and present in their daily lives, and innovating the future of Oura's products.
Requirements
- Minimum 5+ years of practical backend development work experience with Python
- Have architected, built, and deployed scalable, performant, and highly available web services in production on AWS or similar platforms, and can apply architectural patterns and best practices to new and existing products
- Write code that is highly maintainable, extensible, well-tested, and easy-to-understand
- Have an affinity for automating busywork and diving into the details to fix problems at the root
- Solid computer science fundamentals and design patterns
- Experience with Python web server frameworks, such as FastAPI
- Experience in building efficient, scalable database schemas and/or query optimization
Responsibilities
- Own high quality solutions from design to production, including testing, monitoring, and documentation, while helping shape best practices across the engineering lifecycle
- Proactively tackle ambiguous problems, reducing their complexity into clear, simple, and actionable solutions with stakeholder alignment
- Ensure all solutions meet the latest security, privacy, and regulatory standards
- Drive architectural improvements to scale the platform, evolve our infrastructure, and support new product capabilities.
- Collaborate effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team, adapting as Oura evolves and new opportunities emerge.
Other
- This is a remote US role with a preference for candidates based in the US-Pacific timezone.
- Have a pragmatic entrepreneurial attitude and delivery-focused mindset: you understand tradeoffs between short-term goals and long-term tech debt and focus on delivering what’s most important
- Experience working asynchronously across time zones
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
