Staff Back-End Engineer – Search APIs

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🔙 Backend Engineer

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Helm Health

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Healthcare Insurance • SaaS • B2B

Helm Health is a SaaS platform that partners with TPAs and health insurers/carriers to power “Dynamic Copay” health-plan products. The platform uses upfront, guaranteed prices, granular cost and quality data, smart claim bundling, and an intuitive provider search to drive member engagement, enable value-driven benefit design, and reduce plan costs (the company reports 74% of care is shopped through the platform and ~15% plan savings). Helm enables moving beyond traditional deductible-centric plans by creating simple, guaranteed prices for members while preserving provider fee-for-service reimbursement.

📋 Description

• Drive technical direction, implementation, and production support for client-facing gRPC APIs and SDKs powering provider search, ranking, and dynamic copay lookups • Drive public API design decisions involving versioning, backward compatibility, field masks, CEL-based filtering, error semantics, and gRPC status code conventions • Design and evolve ranking and steerage logic balancing relevance, network status, cost, client overrides, and plan-specific incentives • Design for scale and reliability under production load, including geofenced queries, rate limiting, retry and timeout budgets, and graceful degradation • Partner with product and partner engineering teams on external SDK and developer experience, projects, and roadmap • Write and review code and designs, set technical direction, drive execution, mentor engineers, and scale the team

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years building backend services and distributed systems • Deep experience with search systems and architecture at scale • Production experience building or evolving search or ranking systems • Experience with keyword/lexical search, vector/embedding-based retrieval, and LLM-driven query understanding or reranking • Track record shipping public APIs and SDKs, including versioning, backward compatibility, and multi-language client libraries • Ability to set architectural direction, write clear design documents, and influence without authority • Experience running GCP data infrastructure at scale, including AlloyDB/Postgres, BigQuery, and Bigtable • Prior experience with provider search, clinical/specialty matching, network steerage, or benefits/copay logic in healthcare or insurance context • Familiarity with geospatial query patterns at scale • Experience building retrieval evaluation frameworks • Experience in Go, gRPC, and protobuf in production • Terraform/Terraform Cloud experience • Start-up experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus + equity • Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days) • Computer + home office stipend • 401(k) + matching • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Autonomy and tons of room for career growth • Quarterly company meetings

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