Principal Backend Developer

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🕒 July 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Happy Health

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11 - 50 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🔧 Hardware

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $60M Series A - Happy Health on 2022-08

Healthcare • Hardware • Artificial Intelligence

Happy Health is a consumer-focused sleep medicine company that operates the Happy Sleep platform. It combines an FDA-cleared medical wearable (the Happy Ring) for at-home, clinical-grade sleep testing with virtual care delivered by board-certified sleep physicians and a coordinated care team. The company offers prescription-based home sleep testing, personalized treatment options (CPAP, custom devices, surgery, behavioral interventions), nightly monitoring and ongoing care, AI-enhanced health tracking, same-day virtual appointments, and works with major insurers across most U. S. states.

📋 Description

• Architect, build, and evolve a serverless backend stack in AWS, primarily utilizing Python 3.10+, Lambda, CDK, DynamoDB, Cloudfront, SNS, SQS, S3, and other related services to support customer-facing applications and internal operational workflows. • Lead the design, implementation, and integration of our REST API, event processors, services, and underlying datastores that deliver meaningful data to and from customers resulting from their use of the Happy Ring. • Establish and guide backend engineering best practices across system design, observability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and security. • Provide technical leadership to other team members, contractors, and partners building on these systems. • Drive architectural decisions and cross-functional technical alignment across software, mobile, web, eCommerce, operations, and partner-facing systems. • Help ensure regulatory compliance and best practices are maintained across these systems and the mechanisms used to access them, including M2M authentication, authorization, and login workflows. • Identify technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, and platform gaps early, and proactively drive solutions that support near-term commercial growth and long-term platform needs.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend software development • 5+ years of experience in Python • 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems in AWS • Demonstrated experience designing scalable APIs, cloud infrastructure, and continuous integration workflows. • Strong experience making technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, security, and speed of execution • Proven ability to lead technical design and influence engineering direction across multiple systems or teams

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee's Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance. 50% premium coverage for dependents. • 401k platform • Equity in company • WFH Stipend