Backend Engineer II

Garner Health

full-time

Posted on: 9/25/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $135,000 - $165,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AWSElasticSearchKubernetesMicroservicesPostgresPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Build and maintain the back-end services that power Garner’s core business
Participate in an on-call rotation by responding to system outages and support escalations from internal stakeholders
Collaborate across disciplines to provide timely and accurate technical designs, work estimates, and answers to technical questions
Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
Design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
Ideate on new features and work with data to find new insights
Research and work with the latest tools and technologies
Collaborate using our tech stack (Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, Kubernetes)

3+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
Proficiency in Python is required
Experience building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
A strong understanding of the AWS menu of services
Hands-on experience with SQL
Experience deploying, supporting, and operating applications running on Kubernetes
Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices
Willingness to "roll up your sleeves" and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment
A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system
Authorization to work lawfully in the United States of America (Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship)