Why join Lara Health
Ready to transform healthcare At Lara Health your skills will improve patient care unlock revenue for independent providers and drive healthcare efficiency at scale. Were transforming how U.S. medical practices operate and we want the best talent to be part of it.
Were looking for a Senior BackEnd Engineer whos ready to own challenges build innovative solutions and grow with us.
We offer:
- Career Growth: This isnt just another engineering job this is a pivotal opportunity to shape your future as a technical leader. As one of our earliest engineers youll play a key role in laying the foundation of our tech infrastructure advancing into leadership roles with greater responsibility as we scale.
- Financial Stability: We are cashflow positive ensuring stability and growth opportunities two things that dont come together very often.
- MissionDriven Culture: Join a group of passionate innovators and operators who live and breathe our mission. At Lara Health we are breaking barriers and creating solutions that have a direct meaningful impact on the way healthcare is delivered.
- Collaborative Environment: We elevate individual performance by creating a culture where everyone works to put their teammates in a position to give their best.
- RemoteFirst and Flexible: Enjoy the freedom to work fully remote from anywhere while staying deeply connected with a dedicated and passionate team. Once your goals are set we value your autonomy and give you the flexibility to manage your workday as you see fit.
- Positive Atmosphere: Work alongside passionate colleagues who are supportive maintain a positive attitude and keep business goals in clear focus.
- RealWorld Impact: Your work will directly improve healthcare outcomes by creating tools that help doctors and care teams serve patients more effectively. This isnt just code your work can potentially impact millions of people
Your Mission as a Senior BackEnd Engineer
We are seeking a Senior BackEnd Engineer who thrives in a fastpaced agile environment. The ideal candidate is a selfstarter with a growth mindset with strong accountability and ready to take ownership. Youll have the opportunity to work across the stack solve complex problems and contribute to missioncritical applications.
As a Senior BackEnd Engineer youll design and develop backend services that power our healthcare platform. Youll work closely with crossfunctional teams to ensure our systems are reliable secure and designed to grow with us.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Own the Backend: Design and develop scalable efficient and secure services to power missioncritical applications.
- Serverless Applications: Develop and maintain applications using AWS Lambda and the Serverless Framework.
- Make Data Work: Design and manage databases (SQL/NoSQL within AWS) that scale with the companys growth enhancing efficiency and data integrity.
- Code Collaboration: Manage repositories using GitHub and collaborate with other team members to bring tangible innovation to healthcare. Take advantage of AI copilots to multiply your speed productivity and efficiency and enhance the quality of your code and documentation.
- API Integration: Work on integrating external APIs ensuring seamless communication between services.
- Testing: Develop and maintain robust unit and integration tests using PyTest.
- Code Quality: Write clean maintainable and welldocumented code following industry best practices.
- System Reliability: Implement logging monitoring and alerting solutions using Sentry and AWS CloudWatch.
- AI Integration: We are not just working with traditional solutions; were building cuttingedge tools. If youre passionate about leveraging AI to drive innovation this is the role for you as youll help integrate these tools into healthcare solutions that are smarter faster and more efficient and valuable.
What Youll Bring:
- Experience: 5 years of backend development in a cloud environment (preferably Python).
- ProblemSolving Mindset: Ability to take on complex challenges and build innovative solutions with minimal guidance.
- Programming Skills: Strong proficiency in Python; experience with C# and/or Node.js is a plus.
- Cloud Expert: Proficient in AWS services like Lambda API Gateway DynamoDB S3 and CloudFormation RDS and IAM.
- Version Control: Proficient with GitHub workflows.
- Testing Frameworks: Experience with unit and integration testing using PyTest or similar.
- Serverless Framework: Highly desirable experience.
- Database Knowledge: Familiarity with both relational databases (PostgreSQL MySQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB).
- API Design: Experience with RESTful API design microservices architecture and eventdriven systems.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Familiarity with infrastructureascode tools like CloudFormation or Terraform.
- Soft Skills: Strong problemsolving abilities excellent communication leadership and a collaborative mindset.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with AWS Step Functions or building applications with AI copilots Lets chat.
- Containerization: Exposure to Docker or Kubernetes Great.
- Security Best Practices: Familiarity with AWS security including IAM roles and encryption. Nice.
- Worked with HIPAA or securityfocused environments before Exciting! Were aiming for the highest standards.
What Youll Get:
- Competitive Compensation: We value talent and offer a compensation package that reflects it. This includes offering meaningful equity allocation in our cashflow positive business.
- Career Growth: Join us at an exciting time where you can rise quickly as we scale.
- Flexibility: Enjoy a fully remote role with the freedom to manage your time and productivity.
- Ownership: Play a pivotal role in shaping a product that delivers tangible real world impact on the way healthcare is being delivered today not just building another app.
How to Apply
If youre ready to take the next big step in your career build something meaningful and shape the future of healthcare lets do it together. Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter explaining why youre a great fit for this role.
No agencies please. Only candidates with relevant experience and available for full time will be considered.