Senior Backend Engineer
Navina
Senior Backend Engineer
- R&D
- IL
- Senior
- Full-time
Description
Navina is a fast-growing digital health SaaS company that’s on a mission to transform the way physicians interact with patient data. Thousands of clinicians across the United States already use Navina’s AI-powered solution that transforms complex and fragmented patient data into concise “patient portraits" and actionable clinical insights at the point of care. With Navina, physicians experience less burnout, reduce missed diagnoses, and can devote more time giving better care to their patients.
Navina has been named one of the Top 100 AI companies globally by CB Insights and made the list of the Top 50 Digital Health startups. We are already working with industry-leading value-based organizations including Privia Health and Agilon.
Navina is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our data group.
The team is responsible for processing structure and unstructured medical data from multiple external sources while building and maintaining an internal serving platform. Our key challenges include operating at scale, integrating with diverse external interfaces, and ensuring the data is served in a consistent and reliable manner.
Responsibilities
- Lead development processes from ideation to production
- Collaborate with product, medical, and software teams across the organization.
- Own the design and evolution of the data ingestion and serving platform.
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level engineers.
- Define best practices for system reliability, scalability, and observability.
- Lead technical decisions around distributed systems, APIs, and integrations.
- Build a customer-centric product with a deep understanding of the complex healthcare industry
Requirements
- Team player at heart.
- Hands-on Backend Experience in developing a large-scale, high throughput system.
- Experience designing and scaling distributed data processing systems.
- 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
- 5+ years of experience with High level server-side frameworks, Preferably Python.
- Experience with AWS or other cloud services
You don’t need to meet 100% of the requirements to be a great fit. We believe in hiring people, not just checklists, and we value potential as much as experience. If this role excites you, we’d love to see your application!