Ro is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure backend services for their vertically integrated healthcare platform, aiming to improve the patient experience and achieve health goals.
Requirements
- 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
- Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth (ideally in a mid-to-late stage startup environment), ensuring high performance and availability
- Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries-backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
- Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI
- Operate as an owner within your team's domain and proactively assess and improve system performance and reliability
- 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
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers from adjacent teams to ensure alignment and technical integrity across boundaries
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems
Other
- Strong sense of ownership with the ability and 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
- The role requires the ability to work anywhere in the United States.
- For Ro'ers in the tri-state (NY) area, you will join us at HQ on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- For those outside of the tri-state area, you will be able to join in-person collaborations throughout the year (i.e., during team on-sites).
