Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Staff Backend Engineer

At Weave (NYSE: WEAV), we're on a mission to elevate the patient experience by giving healthcare practices the tools they need to run more efficiently and meaningfully connect with their patients. With 40,000+ customers and growing, Weave's all-in-one platform supports every interaction—from scheduling and payments to communication and reviews—making it easier for healthcare professionals to focus on what matters most: patient care.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you'll join a high-trust, high-impact team helping to shape the future of healthcare technology. You'll work in a deeply collaborative environment, partnering with teammates across the U.S. and India to design and deliver resilient, scalable backend systems that power critical features in our platform. This isn't just about building APIs—you'll influence architecture, drive outcomes, and improve how 40K+ healthcare practices operate day-to-day.

You'll thrive here if you care deeply about customers, lead with curiosity, and live by our core values: Think creatively. Stay hungry. Do the right thing. Care more. The customer is everything.

If you're excited about transforming healthcare with purpose-driven work and smart teammates by your side, we'd love to meet you.

This position will be available remotely with an opportunity to work in office if located near the Lehi, UT Headquarters.

Reports to: Engineering Manager

What You Will Own

• Architect & Lead: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services Golang microservices in a cloud-native environment.
• Solve Complex Challenges: Address large, open-ended engineering problems such as reducing operational costs, optimizing system performance, and improving payment processing efficiency.
• Drive Multi-Team & Multi-Quarter Initiatives: Lead large, strategic engineering projects that impact multiple teams and require deep expertise in distributed systems, API design, and database optimization.
• Improve System Reliability & Scalability: Ensure our payment systems are resilient, highly available, and fault-tolerant, leveraging best practices in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and alerting.
• Optimization & Performance: Identify inefficiencies in our systems, propose solutions, and execute cost-saving and performance-enhancing initiatives in collaboration with engineering leadership.
• Foster Engineering Excellence: Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, sharing best practices and driving improvements in code quality, testing, and deployment.
• Lead Migrations & Technical Transitions: Spearhead critical system migrations, ensuring smooth rollouts with incremental adoption, rollback strategies, and clear communication across teams.
• Collaborate & Align Stakeholders: Work closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams to align technical strategies with business objectives and ensure smooth execution.
• Ensure Operational Readiness: Define monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies to maintain system stability and performance.
• Champion Technical Strategy: Provide thought leadership on backend architecture, microservices best practices, and emerging technologies.

What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, or similar languages.
• Strong experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems with microservices architecture.
• Proficiency in inter-service communication protocols (REST, gRPC, protobufs, message queues like NSQ, Kafka, or similar).
• Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and optimization strategies.
• Strong experience in cloud environments (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable).
• Deep understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale projects across multiple teams with clear communication, stakeholder alignment, and strategic decision-making.
• Experience leading technical migrations, ensuring smooth transitions with minimal disruption.
• Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
• Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent within and across teams.

What Will Make Us Love You

• Experience with building and architecting systems around integrated Payments solutions (e.g. Stripe, Braintree, etc.), or with other fintech and financial systems
• Knowledge of payments industry
• Deploying into a public cloud service (especially GCP)
• Experience with protobufs/gRPC
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant service
• Experience with breaking up monolithic applications into microservices
• Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
• Experience with functional/acceptance testing

Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.

Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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