Founding Backend Engineer

The role

We are hiring for a founding backend software engineer to build the systems that power Hera’s care platform with rigor, reliability, and long‑term scalability. This role is for an engineer who cares deeply about sound systems design, high‑quality architecture, and getting the details right in an environment where trust, data sensitivity, and operational correctness matter.

• Design and build core backend systems. You will architect and implement the infrastructure, services, and internal platform capabilities that underpin Hera’s product and operations.

• Build for reliability and correctness. You will create systems that are fault‑tolerant, idempotent, and thoughtfully designed to handle sensitive workflows safely.

• Own critical data and infrastructure decisions. You will help shape how Hera handles complex workflows involving medical, billing, operational, and user data across the platform.

• Develop robust APIs and service architecture. You will build well‑crafted consumer‑grade APIs and contribute to a scalable, maintainable systems foundation.

• Raise the bar on engineering rigor. You will bring strong opinions around unit testing, system performance, design quality, and technical standards across the backend.

• Strong backend and infrastructure fundamentals. You have experience designing systems with sound architecture, strong performance, and long‑term maintainability.

• Attention to detail. You care deeply about correctness, resilience, and the details that matter when building systems that touch sensitive or high‑stakes workflows.

• Relevant systems experience. Experience with cloud infrastructure, multiple database types, consumer‑scale APIs, SDKs, and service‑oriented architecture is highly relevant.

• Security and compliance awareness. Experience working with permissions, role‑based access controls, security‑sensitive flows, compliance‑minded systems, or other trust‑critical infrastructure is a major plus.

• Ownership and autonomy. You are self‑directed, opinionated in a healthy way, and excited to take responsibility for major technical decisions as an early engineer.

• Technical fluency. AWS or similar cloud experience, SQL and non‑SQL database experience, and strong comfort with modern backend development practices are highly relevant for this role.

We pay at the top of market with founding‑level equity. People who deliver outsized outcomes should be rewarded with outsized upside.