Senior Backend Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure (New York City, Los Angeles, or San Francisco)

Regard • Los Angeles, CA

115d • $165,000 - $220,000

About The Position

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure at Regard, you’ll play a leading role in building our products. You’ll be responsible for designing and developing critical backend services and driving them end-to-end through the full product lifecycle: ideation, planning, design, execution, deployment, and iteration. In addition to core service development, you’ll help lay the foundation of our data infrastructure, building reliable services and integrations that make structured data accessible, scalable, and performant. This includes designing APIs and storage layers that interact with healthcare data, leveraging modern data formats and warehouse technologies, and ensuring our systems are built for both transactional reliability and analytical insight. We expect our senior engineers to be true technical leaders by driving architectural decisions, mentoring teammates, and leading major projects that help set the bar for engineering excellence. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and fellow engineers to ship high-quality solutions that empower physicians and improve patient care.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
• Proficient in Python with demonstrated ability to write and maintain production-quality code
• Able to participate in on-call operational support for their areas of responsibility
• Able to travel up to 4 weeks a year for company co-working and/or retreat weeks

Nice To Haves

• Experience with k8s, AWS services (serverless, etc), OpenAI services
• Familiarity with data tooling, including AWS data warehousing and analytics (e.g., Athena, Redshift) and common data formats (Parquet, ORC, Avro)
• Experience working on a mature enterprise SaaS technology product
• Exposure to startup and/or high growth environments
• Experience working with health technology
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and design team members to best design medium to large projects balancing speed to market, user experience, business goals, and technical architecture quality
• Own medium to large backend services and drive improvements across system design, observability, testing, performance, and support.
• Drive backend development practices, patterns, and processes along with the other Regard backend experts
• Mentor and review code from less experienced developers in our backend services across backend job processing, API, and other services
• Maintain and improve the quality of the codebase and tooling in your area of responsibility by proactive fixes and improvements and through identifying and proposing projects to improve the overall backend codebase
• Participate in operational activities supporting product areas you own including on-call, monitoring, and production support
• Contribute as necessary across the stack (front end, infrastructure, AWS, etc) in order to unblock projects

Benefits

• Eligible for equity
• 99% employer paid health benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision) + One Medical subscription
• 18 PTO days/yr + 1 week holiday break
• Annual $750 learning & development stipend
• Company-sponsored team retreat + social events
• A sabbatical program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree