Paradigm Health - Staff Software Engineer
Requirements
• 10+ Years of Experience: You have experience building and scaling distributed systems, with comfort working across the stack when needed. • Backend-First Full Stack Engineer: Deep expertise in backend development (Java/Kotlin or similar), including APIs, data modeling, and distributed systems. You are also comfortable contributing to frontend applications (React/TypeScript) and understand how backend decisions impact user experience. • Systems Thinker: You design with the full system in mind—from database to API to UI—balancing performance, scalability, and usability. • Ops-Minded: You understand that development extends beyond implementation. You have experience with CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and operating services in production. • Product-First Technologist: You care about delivering reliable systems and cohesive user experiences that directly impact patients and providers. • Reliable Delivery: You get stuff done. You say what you will do, and do what you say, delivering high-quality work timely and reliably. • Engineering Cultural Attributes: • Ownership - Takes proactive lead into their work - say what you will do, and do that. • Growth Mindset - Believe in potential, embrace challenges, learn from mistakes. • Curious - you look at your work beyond the surface, and care about why and how things work • Amplifies Others - Willing to learn from anyone and want to teach others • Transparent - Provides effective feedback to reports, in code reviews, and shares information openly to build confidence. • At Paradigm Health, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. We encourage and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and perspectives to apply for our open positions. We are interested in all qualified individuals and ensure that all employment decisions are based on job-related factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications.
Responsibilities
• Technical Leadership & Architecture • Architect the Backend Ecosystem: Define and evolve our backend architecture, including service boundaries, data modeling, API design (REST/GraphQL), and event-driven patterns. Drive decisions around scalability, performance, and reliability. • Drive Engineering Standards: Establish best practices across the stack, with a focus on backend quality (testing, observability, security), while ensuring frontend integrations are clean, maintainable, and performant. • Production & Observability: Own the lifecycle of services from development to production. Implement monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting to ensure system health and performance across backend and user-facing layers. • Product Partnership & Strategy • Shape the Product: Partner with Product Managers and Designers to translate complex clinical workflows—such as patient eligibility and trial matching—into scalable backend systems and well-designed user experiences. • Cross-Team Impact: Lead large cross-team initiatives, breaking down complex efforts into iterative deliverables that span backend services and frontend experiences. • Domain Expertise: Develop a deep understanding of the clinical trial ecosystem to design systems that solve real-world operational and data challenges. • Mentorship & Culture • Elevate the Team: Mentor engineers primarily on backend architecture and system design, while also supporting full-stack development best practices and collaboration. • Foster Collaboration: Ensure strong API contracts and data models that enable seamless integration with frontend systems. Act as a bridge between backend and frontend concerns when needed. • Engineering Cultural Attributes: • Growth Mindset - Believe in potential, embrace challenges, learn from mistakes. • Curious - you look at your work beyond the surface, and care about why and how things work • Amplifies Others - Willing to learn from anyone and want to teach others • Transparent - Provides effective feedback to reports, in code reviews, and shares information openly to build confidence. • At Paradigm Health, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. We encourage and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and perspectives to apply for our open positions. We are interested in all qualified individuals and ensure that all employment decisions are based on job-related factors such as skills, experience, and qualifications.
Benefits
• $187K – $234K • Offers Equity • At Paradigm, we aim to provide a compensation structure that is both competitive and aligned with our mission, values, and long-term success. When combined, our intent is for total cash compensation, and equity to provide a compelling, market-leading package that both rewards your contributions today and aligns your long-term financial success with Paradigm’s growth. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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