Staff Backend Engineer

Staff Backend Engineer

At Commure, our engineering team is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare technology by building and scaling the systems powering our suite of healthcare products. We are looking for a talented Staff Backend Engineer to help us craft user-friendly, responsive, and secure interfaces that operate reliably at scale and enhance the healthcare experience for both providers and patients. If you are a builder and love working on important, exciting problems in healthcare and love shipping quickly, come join us!

What You'll Do

• Drive the technical vision and architecture for critical backend systems and platform services.

• Lead large, cross-functional engineering initiatives from design through production.

• Influence engineering strategy and architectural decisions across multiple teams.

• Design scalable, reliable, and secure distributed systems that power mission-critical healthcare workflows.

• Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical guidance, and engineering best practices.

• Improve system reliability, observability, performance, and developer productivity.

• Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Clinical teams to deliver impactful technical solutions.

• Build and operate services using Python, Go, FastAPI, Flask, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.

What You Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience building large-scale distributed systems.

• Deep expertise in Python and/or Go and modern backend architectures.

• Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction across teams.

• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, and microservices.

• Proven track record delivering scalable, reliable systems and making sound architectural decisions.

• Excellent communication, mentorship, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• A builder mindset with a passion for moving quickly and solving complex healthcare challenges.

Please be aware that all official communication from us will come exclusively from email addresses ending in @commure.com. Any emails from other domains are not affiliated with our organization.

Employees will act in accordance with the organization's information security policies, to include but not limited to protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference nor execute particular security processes or activities. Employees will report to the information security office any confirmed or potential events or other risks to the organization. Employees will be required to attest to these requirements upon hire and on an annual basis.