Senior Backend Engineer

About Antidote Health Antidote Health is a health plan that wants you to use your benefits. We're on a mission to make healthcare easy, accessible, and more affordable. We believe getting care shouldn’t involve endless paperwork, dated technology, and long wait times—so we built something better. Antidote's Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans offer unlimited $0 virtual visits, $0 medications, and an easy-to-use app to make managing your health plan simple. We currently offer health plans in Arizona and Ohio, and we're growing fast. Learn more about Antidote Health and explore opportunities to join our mission at antidotehealth.com

Antidote Health

Finally. Simple, affordable, accessible ACA health insurance plans in AZ & OH.

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antidotehealth.com

51-200 employees

Hospitals and Health Care

New York, New York

2020

Privately Held

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• We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own and scale the engine behind our digital HMO. In this role, you'll develop scalable backend services, orchestrate secure, real-time data flows, build robust APIs that power our patient-facing features, and lead complex integrations with external clinical and insurance partners.
• For engineers located within 2 hours of commutable distance to our NYC office, this is hybrid 2 days a week, for those outside of that scope- we are open to full time remote.
• Design and implement resilient, low-latency APIs and backend architectures that handle critical patient data flows.
• Design scalable data models and optimize query performance to handle relational datasets.
• Implement comprehensive testing strategies including unit and integration tests.
• Work closely with product managers, design and business partners to build best in class solutions for our customers.
• Ensure operational excellence through high availability, scalability, and security of our backend systems.
• Architect secure, fail-safe integrations with external healthcare systems, insurance networks, and third-party APIs.
• Use AI tools to improve velocity, code quality, problem-solving, and efficiency across the software delivery lifecycle.

Required

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python and Django framework.
• Experience designing and optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture, distributed systems, and GCP (or equivalent).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• BSc / MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical industry experience.

Preferred

• A product-minded backend engineer who isn't afraid to cross the stack (React/React Native) to ship end-to-end features and unblock user-facing value.
• Knowledge of security best practices for API integration.
• Experience with healthcare systems.