Senior/Staff Back-End Engineer
Helm Health
Software Engineering
United States
Posted on Nov 4, 2025
Senior/Staff Back-End Engineer
USA
Engineering
Remote
Full-time
The Role
We're seeking a Senior/Staff Back-End Engineer to join our growing engineering team, reporting directly to the CTO. You'll own critical services from day one, shape our technical architecture, and have a massive impact on our product and company trajectory.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the engineering and product teams
- Develop an internal SDK to be published and consumed by clients
Requirements
- 4+ years building, owning, and maintaining high-performance, low-latency APIs
- 2+ years writing Go services (gRPC-Protobuf preferred)
- First-hand experience architecting solutions on PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, Bigtable
- Google Cloud Platform
- Docker/Kubernetes
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with OAUTH/SAML/OIDC
- 1+ years Terraform/Terraform Cloud
- Incident management and response
- Startup experience
- Healthcare/fintech background
- AI/LLM experience
Characteristics
- Self-directed
- Mission-driven (healthcare)
- Willing to ask questions and admit what you don’t know
- Can explain technical concepts to non-technical people
Internal Tools/Technology
- Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom
- Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical
- macOS / Linux
Req ID: R2