Senior Backend Engineer, Payments

Weave

6d

About The Position

At Weave, we are on a mission to elevate the patient experience by providing healthcare practices with the tools they need to operate more efficiently and connect meaningfully with their patients. With over 40,000 customers and growing, Weave’s all-in-one platform manages every interaction, from scheduling and payments to communication and reviews, enabling healthcare professionals to concentrate on what matters most: patient care. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Payments Team, you will spearhead complex, multi-team projects, guide architectural decisions, and address the most demanding technical challenges within Weave’s payments platform. You will operate in a highly collaborative, cross-functional setting, partnering with product managers, designers, front-end engineers, and fellow backend engineers to deliver scalable and impactful solutions. You will thrive in this role if you are deeply customer-focused, approach challenges with curiosity, and embody our core values: Think creatively. Stay hungry. Do the right thing. Care more. The customer is everything. If you are enthusiastic about transforming healthcare through purpose-driven work and collaborating with intelligent teammates, we would be delighted to meet you.

Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Golang preferred or willingness to learn).
• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis).
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systems.

Nice To Haves

• Deployed and maintained services in cloud environments, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes, observability tooling (metrics, alerts, tracing), and service reliability.
• Worked with protobufs/gRPC, or Temporal, and have experience breaking monoliths into microservices.
• Thoughtful about technical debt and scalability, and you write code with both today and the future in mind.
• Value cross-functional collaboration and can explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around you.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang microservices.
• Drive technical architecture and contribute to long-term system health by anticipating scaling and maintenance needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact features.
• Participate in system design reviews, propose and implement robust solutions, and contribute to Weave’s overall engineering strategy.
• Own the quality, reliability, and observability of your code from development to production.
• Help plan and execute projects from inception to delivery, with a strong sense of ownership and outcome-orientation.
• Mentor peers and junior engineers by sharing your knowledge and encouraging best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotation and escalation as needed, providing hands-on support during critical incidents and mentoring team members through complex production issues.
• Establish and maintain operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for your team's services.

Benefits

• Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.
• Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported.
• We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
• If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed