Python Backend Engineer

Healf • Capon Bridge, WV

123d

About The Position

At Healf, we’re building an ecommerce platform that connects customers with the world’s most effective products across EAT, MOVE, MIND, and SLEEP. We combine culture-shaping storytelling, cutting-edge health tech, and a best-in-class product experience to help people build rituals that work. We are scaling rapidly and need a hands-on technical leader who can balance deep execution with architectural foresight. This role involves co-creating architecture and engineering standards while directly leading teams to build systems that scale sustainably.

Requirements

• 5+ years backend Python experience building production services and APIs.
• Mastery of async Python patterns and strong typing discipline.
• Hands-on experience architecting cloud-native, horizontally scalable systems on AWS.
• Deep familiarity with Postgres and ORMs.
• Solid grounding in DevOps practices.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with FastAPI dependencies, background tasks, and websockets at scale.
• Caching and messaging experience.
• Exposure to LLM tooling and retrieval patterns.
• Working knowledge of ML concepts and/or model training pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build high-throughput, asynchronous APIs and microservices in Python with FastAPI.
• Design and evolve Postgres schemas, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Implement authentication/authorisation (OAuth2/JWT), input validation, rate-limiting, and robust error handling.
• Add observability for services: structured logging, tracing, metrics, and actionable dashboards/alerts.
• Design scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code preferably Pulumi.
• Ship via containerized CI/CD with automated tests, blue-green/canary deployments, and rollbacks.
• Collaborate with product and design to turn requirements into well-scoped, production-ready features.

Benefits

• Build something that matters with a team that moves fast and aims high.
• Work with high-performers who care deeply and raise the standard every day.
• Help shape our voice, culture, and growth.
• Engage in office yoga and access Healf Zone insights.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees