Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Amigo•New York, NY

14d•$210,000 - $240,000

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) at Amigo, you'll build the core backend infrastructure that powers our agent platform at scale. You'll develop high-performance services that handle millions of conversations per month, focusing on concurrency, reliability, and clean system design. This role requires strong concurrency programming skills and curiosity for finding good solutions to complex technical challenges.

Requirements

4+ years of production-level experience with backend development languages
Strong experience with concurrency programming, including threads, async operations, and parallelism
Experience developing large-scale distributed systems or working with distributed architectures
Background working on SaaS platforms or with Service-Oriented Architectures
Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies
Strong understanding of security best practices and experience with systems handling sensitive data
Understanding of distributed systems concepts (consensus, replication, partitioning) without necessarily having built foundational frameworks
Experience with message queuing systems, event streaming, and async communication patterns
Knowledge of database systems, both SQL and NoSQL, and their scaling characteristics
Curiosity for elegant solutions and clean, maintainable code
Strong debugging skills for concurrent and distributed systems
Strong problem-solving abilities with focus on system reliability and performance

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, finance, or other regulated industries
Understanding of observability and monitoring in distributed environments
Experience with high-throughput, low-latency system design
Background with complex data processing systems

Responsibilities

Design and implement high-performance backend services handling concurrent requests at scale
Build robust APIs and service-oriented architectures that power our agent platform
Develop systems with concurrency patterns to maximize throughput and reliability
Implement secure data handling for sensitive healthcare information with proper access controls
Work with distributed systems concepts like consensus, replication, and fault tolerance
Build resilient services that gracefully handle failures and maintain high availability
Optimize system performance through careful concurrency design and resource management
Solve complex backend challenges with simple, maintainable solutions
Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for backend services
Collaborate with platform teams to ensure integration across services
Design systems that scale horizontally while maintaining data consistency
Contribute to architectural decisions that shape our backend infrastructure