Senior Backend and Integration Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Back-End & Integration Engineer at DaVita, you will architect, build, and scale the middleware, APIs, and enterprise integrations that power our public‑facing digital platforms. This position prioritizes back-end engineering and systems integration to ensure secure, high-performance data flow between marketing web properties and DaVita’s core enterprise systems, including Salesforce, BigQuery, and Fuse. By focusing on server-side logic, database management, and cloud infrastructure, you will automate manual processes and solve complex technical challenges across our digital ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field preferred (or equivalent professional experience).
• 7+ years of professional software development experience focusing on back-end engineering, middleware, and systems integration.
• Deep technical proficiency in building Node.js middleware and API integration layers.
• Strong experience within Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery and Cloud SQL.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL database design, querying, management, and executing cloud database migrations.
• Comprehensive understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Requirements

• Act as the primary technical liaison between Marketing and Enterprise IT, translating business requirements into scalable, secure technical solutions.
• Design, build, and maintain back-end services, APIs, and automated solutions to streamline operations and reduce manual maintenance overhead.
• Develop and support secure middleware and backend‑for‑frontend (BFF) services to seamlessly integrate with DaVita enterprise systems (e.g., Fuse, internal APIs).
• Support and execute cloud database migrations and architecture modernization to address existing business and technical pain points.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust integrations between our digital platforms and Salesforce to support marketing automation, lead routing, and CRM initiatives.
• Support database interactions and data management activities in Microsoft SQL Server and Google Cloud SQL environments.
• Optimize application security, risk compliance, and back-end performance, maintaining strict adherence to OWASP best practices.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, contributing to technical architecture decisions, CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and shared engineering standards.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, UX/UI Designers, and cross‑functional partners utilizing Agile/Scrum development methodologies.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) match, paid time off, PTO cash out.
• Support for you and your family: Family resources, EAP counseling sessions, access to Headspace®, backup child and elder care, maternity/paternity leave and more.
• Professional development programs: DaVita offers a variety of programs to help strong performers grow within their career and also offers on-demand virtual leadership and development courses through DaVita’s online training platform StarLearning.