Senior Software Engineer, Backend

full-time

Posted on: 9/17/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York

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💰 $179,000 - $212,000 per year

Senior

Distributed SystemsDjangoPython

About the role

Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI
Operate as an owner within your team's domain and proactively assess and improve system performance and reliability
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 the consistent application of best practices across relevant domains
Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers from adjacent teams to ensure alignment and technical integrity across boundaries
Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems

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
Hands-on experience in metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning leveraging Ro’s load testing infrastructure and tools like Datadog
Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth (ideally in a mid-to-late stage startup environment), ensuring high performance and availability
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 and 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
Bonus: Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries
Bonus: Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services