Senior Backend Engineer

About the role:

Garner's mission is to transform the healthcare economy, delivering high quality and affordable care for all. By helping employers restructure their healthcare benefit to provide clear incentives and data-driven insights, we get employees to higher quality and lower cost healthcare providers. The result is that patients get better health outcomes while doctors are rewarded for practicing well, not performing more procedures. We are backed by top-tier venture capital firms, are growing rapidly and looking to expand our team.

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is excited about our mission, can deliver across the tech stack, and is eager to learn and apply new techniques and technologies. This role reports to the Engineering Manager of our Payments team.

This position is fully remote. 

What you will do:

• Building and maintaining the back-end services that power Garner’s core business
• Participating in an on-call rotation by responding to system outages and support escalations from internal stakeholders
• Collaborate across disciplines to provide timely and accurate technical designs, work estimates, and answers to technical questions
• Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
• Design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
• Ideate on new features and work with data to find new insights
• Research and work with the latest tools and technologies 
• Collaborate using our tech stack, including Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Kubernetes.

What you will bring to the team:

• 5+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
• Experience building building both event-driven and request-driven microservices
• Strong proficiency in Python is required 
• Familiarity with TypeScript is a bonus, but not required 
• A strong understanding of the AWS menu of services
• Hands-on experience with SQL
• Experience deploying, supporting, operating, and scaling applications running on Kubernetes
• Familiarity working in cross-functional teams using Agile practices including sprints
• A willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
• Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment 
• A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Garner does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time 

Compensation Transparency:

The target salary range for this position is: $180,000-$220,000. Individual compensation for this role will depend on various factors, including qualifications, skills, and applicable laws. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive and competitive benefits plans, including but not limited to: flexible PTO, Medical/Dental/Vision plan options, 401(k), Teladoc Health and more.