Senior Engineer – Backend Lead
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PressWAI, Healthcare
Remote, United StatesFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLPythonKafkaKubernetesTypeScriptFastAPITerraformHIPAA
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on Python required.
- Production cloud infrastructure experience, with depth in Kubernetes.
- Owned infrastructure decisions and implementation, not just deployed to someone else's setup.
- Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals: schema design, migrations, performance tuning, and working with views.
- Experience working on a system rebuild, decomposition, or large-scale migration where old and new systems ran side by side.
- Must have shipped meaningful code in the last 2 years.
- TypeScript familiarity preferred (cross-stack awareness helps).
- Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL a plus.
- Terraform or equivalent IaC (preferred).
- Healthcare, HIPAA, or regulated-data experience (preferred).
- FastAPI and/or SQLAlchemy experience (preferred).
- Event-driven systems (Kafka, message bus migration) experience (preferred).
- AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, agent frameworks, MCP) (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Principal Engineer to lead backend architecture and implementation.
- Build FastAPI service layer controllers, Pydantic schemas, and legacy-compatible endpoint wrappers.
- Port service groups from the legacy system (Python 2.7, legacy web framework) to FastAPI (Python 3.13+/SQLAlchemy 2.0).
- Own cloud infrastructure on PressW's side: Kubernetes (EKS), networking, IAM, compute, data services, observability.
- Collaborate with the client's DevOps team on deployment pipelines and rollout execution.
- Partner with the Data Engineering Lead on translation layer integration and migration sequencing.
- Drive code quality, review standards, and testing discipline across the backend.
- Mentor mid-level engineers and help the Principal set the technical bar.
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