Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ubiminds is a GPTW-certified, people-first company that partners with American software product companies to scale their development teams. They are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to build and expand a healthcare data platform and member management solution, while also contributing to AI-powered initiatives and mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Build and expand a large-scale healthcare data platform and member management solution
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering teams to deliver scalable solutions
- Take ownership of projects from concept through deployment and ongoing operation
- Contribute to AI-powered initiatives and help design and launch AI-driven products and features
- Scale infrastructure that connects healthcare insurance carriers and technology partners
- Improve engineering standards, development practices, and technical processes
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through technical guidance and code reviews
- Participate in architecture discussions and long-term technical planning
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and production-ready code
Skills
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Rust in production environments
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining APIs
- Proven experience building and launching AI-powered products or projects
- Strong understanding of software architecture and backend system design
- Passion for software craftsmanship and high-quality engineering practices
- Ability to take ownership of complex, unstructured problems and drive solutions independently
- Experience working in highly collaborative engineering teams
- Strong communication skills with an emphasis on transparency and positive collaboration
- English proficiency at C1 (written and verbal)
- Familiarity with Ruby and Ruby-based applications
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Helm
- Experience with Terraform
- Exposure to observability and monitoring platforms such as Datadog
- Experience with performance monitoring and optimization
- Experience handling production incidents and improving operational excellence
- Knowledge of CI/CD optimization and deployment automation
- Background in large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure-intensive products
- Experience working within healthcare, insurance, or highly regulated industries
Benefits
- You are placed in a product-based company, with the same treatment as their full-time employees.
- Have our full back-office support, from career guidance to HR and concierge services.
- Enjoy our remote-first policy – we are a distributed team, after all.
- Get your own MacBook (none of that "bring your own device" stuff here).
- Have access to growth opportunities with other amazing technology professionals, through tech talks, chapter meetings, and even remote happy hours for tons of fun!
- Improve your English through free lessons with a native English speaker - get to the next level on your communication skills!
- Candidate Referral bonus (promote Ubi to your tech friends, and get paid for it!)
- Miss working in the office? Our cool Florianópolis headquarters is available, whenever you want, with weekly quick massages & tasty snacks, soft drinks, and games
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