Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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🕒 May 7

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Sidecar Health

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare Insurance

Sidecar Health is a health insurance company that provides comprehensive major medical insurance with upfront pricing and no network restrictions or referral requirements. Their goal is to put employees in control of their healthcare by giving them a clear budget for care and allowing them to choose any doctor without surprise costs. They emphasize access to prescriptions without limitations and protection for unplanned care. Sidecar Health also offers transparent pricing and the option for members to save money if they find providers who charge less than their plan pays. Their offerings include individualized access plans and employer plans, ensuring members always have a choice of qualified doctors.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and own scalable backend services and APIs that handle complex healthcare data and workflows • Optimize database queries and data models to ensure system performance and reliability at scale • Evaluate and articulate technical tradeoffs across system design, performance, and maintainability • Integrate AI tools and agentic coding patterns into backend workflows where they add real value • Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code with a high bar for quality • Partner with product, data, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into robust technical solutions • Contribute to engineering standards through code reviews, technical discussion, and better defaults

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong backend ownership of production systems • Deep expertise in Java and/or Python • Proven experience with system design and the ability to articulate tradeoffs between architectural approaches • Solid fundamentals in testing, debugging, performance optimization, and code review • Habitual, fluent use of AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) as part of your daily workflow • Comfortable owning cloud deployments, preferably on AWS (EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3) • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices • Familiarity with data engineering frameworks — Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, or Dagster — is a strong plus • Experience building AI agents is a plus • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonus opportunity, and equity package • Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits • A 401k retirement plan • Paid vacation and company holidays • Opportunity to make an impact at a rapidly growing mission-driven company transforming healthcare in the U.S.