Praia Health

Praia Health

Senior Backend Engineer

Remote (Worldwide)RemotePosted 1 month ago
Full TimeSeniorRemoteUS

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Job Description

You'll build and scale the platform services that power Praia's consumer health products, with a particular focus on EMR integration, including FHIR connectivity to Epic and other systems. You'll own

Key Highlights

  • Design and operate EMR integration services using HL7 FHIR APIs and adjacent integration patterns (Epic, MyChart, others)
  • Build secure APIs with strong authentication and authorization, audit trails, and least-privilege defaults
  • Use Databricks / Apache Spark for data engineering work as needs arise — pipelines, jobs, Delta Lake — to support product and integration use cases
  • Produce and maintain developer documentation that engineers actually want to read: OpenAPI specs, integration guides, runbooks
  • Lead code and design reviews; mentor engineers and unblock the team

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years building and operating production software, with senior- or staff-level scope and ownership of complex systems
  • Strong programming skills in one or more of: Java/Kotlin, TypeScript/Node.js, Python (or similar)
  • Hands-on experience integrating with EMR/EHR systems
  • Experience designing and delivering cloud-native services on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Kubernetes-based deployments
  • Solid grounding in OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT, secrets management, and secure SDLC practices
  • Comfort with CI/CD, build automation, and infrastructure-as-code — and owning your own release and operational processes
  • Hands-on observability experience: logging, metrics, tracing, APM tools, and data-driven incident response
  • Databricks experience: jobs and workflows, notebooks, Delta Lake, data pipelines
  • Strong written and verbal communication — able to write clear technical designs and present to senior stakeholders
  • Bachelor's degree in CS / Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications

  • Open-source contributions
  • Patents, publications, or conference presentations
  • Prior experience at a healthcare or health-tech company

Skills & Technologies

JavaSparkCI/CDKotlinTypeScriptNode.jsPythonAWSAzureGCPKubernetes

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Job Details

Employment Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Senior

Location

Remote (Worldwide)

Work Mode

Remote

Posted

1 month ago

Country

US