Praia Health: Senior Backend Engineer

Headquarters: Chicago, IL

You’ll build and scale the platform services that power Praia’s consumer health products, with a particular focus on EMR integration, including FHIR connectivity to Epic and other systems. You’ll own end-to-end delivery of secure, well-documented APIs used by both internal teams and external health-system partners.

This is a senior‑level role with real ownership over complex systems. If you’ve integrated with healthcare systems before and want to do it alongside people who take both engineering quality and patient experience seriously, we want to chat.

• Design and operate EMR integration services using HL7 FHIR APIs and adjacent integration patterns (Epic, MyChart, others)
• Build secure APIs with strong authentication and authorization, audit trails, and least‑privilege defaults
• Use Databricks / Apache Spark for data engineering work as needs arise — pipelines, jobs, Delta Lake — to support product and integration use cases
• Produce and maintain developer documentation that engineers actually want to read:
  OpenAPI specs, integration guides, runbooks
• Lead code and design reviews; mentor engineers and unblock the team
• Implement automated unit and integration testing, and promote pragmatic TDD standards
• Operate with a Dev Ops mindset: CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, observability, on‑call readiness
• Partner with Product, Design, and Customer teams to turn requirements into reliable systems

• 5+ years building and operating production software, with senior‑ or staff‑level scope and ownership of complex systems
• Strong programming skills in one or more of:
  Java/Kotlin, Type Script/Node.js, Python (or similar)
• Hands‑on experience integrating with EMR/EHR systems
• Experience designing and delivering cloud‑native services on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including Kubernetes‑based deployments
• Solid grounding in OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT, secrets management, and secure SDLC practices
• Comfort with CI/CD, build automation, and infrastructure‑as‑code — and owning your own release and operational processes
• Hands‑on observability experience: logging, metrics, tracing, APM tools, and data‑driven incident response
• Databricks experience: jobs and workflows, notebooks, Delta Lake, data pipelines
• Strong written and verbal communication — able to write clear technical designs and present to senior stakeholders
• Bachelor’s degree in CS / Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

• Open‑source contributions
• Patents, publications, or conference presentations
• Prior experience at a healthcare or health‑tech company

• Competitive base salary and performance‑based bonuses
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Company‑paid life insurance and short‑ and long‑term disability
• 401(k) with company matching
• Flexible PTO
• Employee wellness programs and resources
• A supportive and inclusive remote‑friendly work environment