Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/findoctave/jobs/senior-software-engineer-backend-united-states-remote/ Job Description: Octave Website LinkedIn All Job Openings CBT β€’ DBT β€’ Anxiety β€’ Depression β€’ Relationships Octave is a mental health care provider offering affordable and accessible therapy services tailored for individual, couples, and family needs. Their services include finding and matching clients with carefully vetted therapists who are experts in various specialty areas and languages. Octave emphasizes clinical excellence with a strong focus on evidence-based and outcome-driven therapy solutions, leading to faster and more effective improvements in mental health. With both in-person and virtual therapy options available, they make mental health care convenient and embrace a diverse network of therapists, including a significant percentage who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. Octave partners with Evernorth Behavioral Care to deliver high-quality care to Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth members, enhancing access and satisfaction for their clients. 201 - 500 employees 🧘 Wellness βš•οΈ Healthcare Insurance πŸ’° $20M Series B on 2021-05 Senior Software Engineer, Backend 1 hour ago πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States – Remote πŸ’΅ $142.6k - $176k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior πŸ”™ Backend Engineer πŸ¦… H1B Visa Sponsor Distributed Systems GRPC MySQL Postgres Python Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem πŸ“‹ Description β€’ Design, develop, and implement scalable and robust backend systems and APIs using Python β€’ Optimize database schemas, queries, and overall performance while maintaining security and data integrity. β€’ Lead debugging, profiling, and monitoring of backend services, proactively identifying and addressing issues before they impact users. β€’ Participate in technical design and architecture discussions, making well-reasoned tradeoffs for system performance, scalability, and maintainability without guidance. β€’ Drive adoption of best practices for testing, code quality, documentation, and observability across backend systems. β€’ Own features or subsystems end-to-end, from design through deployment and monitoring, ensuring robust, maintainable implementations. β€’ Produce clean, readable, and well-tested code, making thoughtful decisions about when to add comments versus relying on self-documenting patterns. β€’ Serve as a subject-matter expert in a portion of the backend domain, providing guidance, code review, and mentorship to other engineers. β€’ Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable backend solutions. β€’ Partner with frontend and other teams to ensure seamless integration and high-quality delivery of full-stack features. β€’ Mentor and support engineers through pairing, design reviews, and technical guidance. β€’ Proactively surface risks, ambiguities, or technical limitations in project requirements, contributing to early course correction. β€’ Communicate effectively, clearly, and concisely with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. β€’ Contribute to team practices, processes, and documentation to improve efficiency and knowledge sharing. 🎯 Requirements β€’ Minimum of 5 years of experience building robust and scalable backend applications. β€’ Experience with infrastructure-as-code and continuous deployment in production. β€’ Experience working with healthcare, healthcare technology, and clinical staff, or other regulated industries. β€’ Proficiency with gRPC, Protobuf, and other modern API protocols, including designing and integrating services across distributed systems. β€’ Experience with relational database systems like PostgreSQL or MySQL. β€’ Experience integrating and synchronizing data with third party APIs. β€’ Experience with continuous delivery and troubleshooting production code. β€’ Deep expertise in Python and at least one major web framework, with experience designing, building, and maintaining production-grade applications. β€’ Proven track record deploying and operating enterprise Python applications in production, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and maintainability. β€’ Strong commitment to writing high-quality, well-tested, and readable code, with a habit of improving codebases and processes over time. β€’ Proficiency in debugging, monitoring, and optimizing systems, and the ability to make thoughtful architectural decisions in complex domains. β€’ Excellent collaboration and communication skills, able to partner with engineers, clinical staff, and operations teams to solve open-ended problems and deliver impactful solutions. β€’ Passion for mission-driven work, with an interest in applying engineering skills to improve healthcare systems and outcomes. β€’ Experience mentoring or guiding peers, providing technical leadership, and helping the team adopt best practices and thoughtful processes. β€’ Ability to take ownership of significant features or subsystems, drive them to completion, and proactively identify opportunities for improvement. πŸ–οΈ Benefits β€’ company sponsored life insurance β€’ disability and AD&D plans β€’ Voluntary benefits such as 401k retirement, medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, dependent care and commuter/parking options β€’ generous Paid Time Off β€’ paid parental leave benefits