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Backend Software Engineer II- Data Platform

Vida Health· Engineering
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Remote$120k - $130kFull Time- ExemptPosted 1w ago

About the role

Backend Software Engineer II focused on Vida's data platform, building data-intensive backend services and pipelines that integrate data from health plans, employers, and partners to support Vida’s products and operations.

Responsibilities

  • Build backend services that ingest, validate, reconcile, and serve data from external partners.
  • Develop systems for member identity, eligibility, billing, and other core business domains.
  • Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines used across Vida.
  • Make systems resilient to incomplete, duplicated, delayed, and inconsistent real-world data.
  • Build safe ways to retry, replay, and recover data when something goes wrong.
  • Improve the reliability, observability, testing, and performance of production systems.
  • Work with Engineering, Product, and Operations to figure out what needs to be built when the requirements are incomplete or messy.
  • Additional responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree at a minimum.
  • 2+ years of professional experience building backend software.
  • Strong programming fundamentals- we primarily use Python.
  • Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
  • Experience building systems that process, transform, or move significant amounts of data.
  • A solid understanding of testing, debugging, APIs, and common distributed-system failure modes.
  • Experience deploying or operating software in a cloud environment.
  • Good instincts around correctness, including validation, idempotency, retries, and edge cases.
  • The ability to get into an unfamiliar codebase, understand how it works, and improve it without making it more complicated.
  • Clear written communication and an ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs.
  • You do not need previous healthcare experience or experience with every technology we use.

Skills

Required:PythonRelational databases and SQLData processing / data pipelinesTesting and debuggingCloud deployment/operationsCommunication

Benefits

  • Vida is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
  • Diversity is more than a commitment at Vida—it is the foundation of what we do. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
  • We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our platform and those we serve.
  • Vida is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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