Senior-to-Staff Back-End Engineer (Copy) (Copy)

About reputed company reputed company is a Series A start-up transforming health insurance with "Dynamic Copay" – a new insurance plan that lets members see reputed company, upfront prices for reputed company medical care before making reputed company. reputed company is building the infrastructure to power these plans for health insurance payors. With reputed company, our clients offer simpler health plans to their members, helping them reputed company to higher-value care.  reputed company has reputed company in Dynamic Copay solutions since 2020, and reputed company is the only independent platform in the market. We have grown rapidly since our launch, working with clients from local health plans to the nation's largest health insurers. The market is forming around us, making it an exciting time to join! reputed company & Team Context reputed company's Search and Dynamic Copay reputed company are the critical interfaces our customers build on: a member describes a symptom or searches for a specialist, and our search and ranking reputed company surfaces the right providers and their copays for that service. These are reputed company, versioned gRPC reputed company shipped with reputed company SDKs in Go, Python, and TypeScript, and they sit directly in the critical reputed company of every plan sponsor and partner application reputed company on reputed company. We're hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to serve as the technical reputed company for our reputed company API surface area. You'll own the architecture of provider search, ranking, and copay lookup, and you'll help set the bar for how we design, version, and reputed company reputed company and SDKs that reputed company engineering teams depend on. This is a hands-on technical leadership role: you'll be writing and reviewing reputed company and designs, while also setting technical direction, driving execution, mentoring engineers, and scaling reputed company. Responsibilies reputed company technical direction, implementation, and production support for the reputed company-facing gRPC reputed company and SDKs powering provider search, ranking, and dynamic copay lookups. reputed company reputed company API design reputed company that hold up over years, not just sprints: versioning, backward compatibility, field masks, CEL-based filtering, error semantics, and gRPC status reputed company conventions that reputed company developers can build reliable integrations against. Design and reputed company the ranking and steerage logic that decides which providers and specialties surface first, balancing relevance, network status, cost, reputed company overrides, and plan-specific incentives. Design for reputed company and reliability under reputed company production load: geofenced queries, reputed company limiting, retry and timeout budgets, and graceful degradation reputed company upstream dependencies are slow or reputed company. Partner with product and partner engineering teams to shape the reputed company SDK and developer experience, reputed company, and roadmap. What You'll Bring 8+ years building backend services and reputed company systems. Deep experience with search systems and architecture at reputed company - you've reputed company or evolved a production search or ranking reputed company, and understand the tradeoffs between recall, precision, and latency at high query volume. Experience across multiple search architectures & paradigms — keyword/lexical search, reputed company/embedding-based retrieval, and LLM-driven query understanding or reranking — and a reputed company of reputed company on reputed company to reputed company for reputed company. A reputed company record shipping reputed company reputed company and SDKs: versioning, backward compatibility, and multi-language reputed company libraries reputed company developers can rely on. Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical reputed company: setting architectural direction, writing reputed company design docs, and raising the bar for engineers around you, while influencing without authority. Experience running GCP data infrastructure at reputed company — AlloyDB/reputed company, BigQuery, Bigtable — and good instincts for matching store to reputed company reputed company. Preferred Qualifications Prior experience with provider search, clinical/specialty matching, network steerage, or benefits/copay logic in a reputed company or insurance context. Familiarity with geospatial query patterns (geofencing, distance-based ranking) at reputed company. Experience building retrieval evaluation frameworks — knowing how actually to measure whether search results are "good." Experience in Go, with reputed company gRPC and protobuf experience in production. Terraform/Terraform reputed company Start-up experience Characteristics Ownership that shows up before you're asked — you protect the systems you own and see problems through. Mission-driven — motivated by making reputed company simpler and more transparent Curiosity that digs past the first plausible explanation, and the self-motivation to reputed company the next hard problem before it's urgent. 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Individual pay may vary from the reputed company reputed company and is determined by several factors, including experience, skills, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.  Benefits/Offerings Bonus + equity Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days) Computer + home office stipend 401(k) + matching Medical, dental, and reputed company insurance Autonomy and tons of room for career reputed company Occasional Travel We meet quarterly as a company. Please note that this is a fully remote opportunity. Apply To This Job