Senior Back-End Engineer – 6-Month Contract
Youtopia
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $65 - $90 per hour
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AzureCloudDistributed SystemsMicroservices.NETSQLVault
About the role
- Build modern, cloud-native backend services using .NET 10 and C#
- Design and develop robust APIs, microservices, and domain-driven components
- Implement event-driven and distributed systems for mission-critical workflows
- Optimize services for performance, reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Implement services using Azure Functions, API Management, Service Bus/Event Grid, Cosmos DB, SQL, Key Vault, and distributed caching
- Contribute to designing secure, multi-tenant architectures
- Improve end-to-end monitoring, telemetry, and observability
- Implement secure-by-default patterns suitable for HIPAA/HITRUST workloads
- Work with PHI/PII data handling standards, encryption, auditing, and compliance
- Partner with the compliance team to ensure systems support audit-readiness
- Build scalable data pipelines and workflows that power nutrient modeling, diagnostics, and personalization
- Integrate with labs, diagnostic systems, wearables, EHRs (FHIR/HL7), and third-party health APIs
- Contribute to structuring Youtopia’s long-term health data platform and data lake
- Work closely with Front-End, Platform, DevOps, Compliance, and Product teams
- Participate in architecture reviews and drive engineering best practices
- Ship high-quality code quickly in a fast-moving, mission-driven environment
Requirements
- 7+ years professional experience in back-end engineering in HIPAA applications
- Deep expertise in C# and .NET 8+
- Strong experience with Azure cloud services
- Proven experience designing and implementing microservices
- Experience with distributed or event-driven architectures
- Solid understanding of relational database design
- Strong understanding of application security and modern API best practices
- Ability to self-organize and take ownership in ambiguous environments
- High-scale or real-time system architecture
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
.NET 10C#APIsmicroservicesevent-driven systemsdistributed systemsAzure FunctionsCosmos DBSQLdata pipelines
Soft skills
self-organizationownershipcollaborationengineering best practices