Senior Backend Engineer

At Weave we’re on a mission to elevate the patient experience by giving healthcare practices the tools they need to run more efficiently and meaningfully connect with their patients. With 40,000+ customers and growing, Weave’s all-in-one platform supports every interaction from scheduling and payments to communication and reviews making it easier for healthcare professionals to focus on what matters most: patient care.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Payments Team, you will lead complex, multi-team projects, drive architectural decisions, and tackle the most challenging technical problems within Weave’s payments platform. You will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment, partnering with product managers, designers, front-end engineers, and fellow backend engineers to deliver impactful solutions at scale.

You’ll thrive here if you care deeply about customers, lead with curiosity, and live by our core values: Think creatively. Stay hungry. Do the right thing. Care more. The customer is everything.

If you're excited about transforming healthcare with purpose-driven work and smart teammates by your side, we'd love to meet you.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang microservices.

• Drive technical architecture and contribute to long-term system health by anticipating scaling and maintenance needs.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact features.

• Participate in system design reviews, propose and implement robust solutions, and contribute to Weave’s overall engineering strategy.

• Own the quality, reliability, and observability of your code from development to production.

• Help plan and execute projects from inception to delivery, with a strong sense of ownership and outcome-orientation.

• Mentor peers and junior engineers by sharing your knowledge and encouraging best practices.

• Participate in on-call rotation and escalation as needed, providing hands-on support during critical incidents and mentoring team members through complex production issues.

• Establish and maintain operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for your team's services.

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Golang preferred or willingness to learn).

• Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis).

• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.

• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systems.

• You’ve deployed and maintained services in cloud environments, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• You’re comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes, observability tooling (metrics, alerts, tracing), and service reliability.

• You’ve worked with protobufs/gRPC, or Temporal, and have experience breaking monoliths into microservices.

• You’re thoughtful about technical debt and scalability, and you write code with both today and the future in mind.

• You value cross-functional collaboration and can explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• You lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around you.

Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.

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