Senior Backend Engineer, Product
Hybrid (New York, NY)$190.8k - $234.5kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineer to join the Patient Experience team at Ro. Backend, product-focused role partnering with Product, Design, Data, and other teams to define, build, and iterate on features impacting patient onboarding, care delivery, and insurance workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python with FastAPI or Django, supporting critical clinical and operational workflows
- Partner closely with product teams to shape feature requirements, define success metrics, and translate business goals into scalable backend solutions
- Operate as a domain owner — accountable for system reliability, performance, and how systems drive measurable product and operational outcomes
- Own features end-to-end from technical discovery through launch and iteration, using data and feedback to continuously improve outcomes
- 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 consistent application of best practices across relevant domains
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems
Qualifications
- 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
- Experience partnering closely with Product to scope and deliver user-facing features that drive measurable business impact
- Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth on a high-traffic engineering organization, ensuring high performance and availability
- Strong intuition for product tradeoffs — balancing speed, scalability, and long-term architecture
- Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries, backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
- Strong sense of ownership with the ability + 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
Skills
Required:PythonFastAPI or DjangoRelational databasesMetrics instrumentationProduct partnershipDistributed systems
Benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO
- Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements
- Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits
- Pet insurance
- Student loan refinancing
- Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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