Praia Health

Backend Engineer

• Build and scale platform services that power Praia’s consumer experience products.
• Build EMR integration services, including connectivity to FHIR endpoints.
• Own the delivery of secure, well-documented APIs used by internal teams and external health-system partners.
• Use Databricks for data engineering workloads when needed (pipelines, jobs, Delta Lake) to support product and integration use cases.
• Build and operate integration services for EMRs (Epic/MyChart and others) using HL7 FHIR APIs and related integration patterns.
• Develop secure APIs with strong authentication/authorization, auditing, and least-privilege principles.
• Produce and maintain high-quality developer documentation (OpenAPI specs, integration guides, runbooks).
• Implement automated testing (unit and integration) and promote practical test-driven development standards.
• Lead code and design reviews; mentor and unblock other engineers.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Customer teams to translate requirements into reliable solutions.
• Build with a DevOps mindset: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring/logging, and operational readiness.