Senior Backend Software Engineer (New York City, Los Angeles, or San Francisco)

About this role

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Regard, you’ll play a leading role in building our products. You’ll be responsible for designing and developing critical backend services and driving them end-to-end through the full product lifecycle: ideation, planning, design, execution, deployment, and iteration.

We expect our senior engineers to be true technical leaders by driving architectural decisions, mentoring teammates, and leading major projects that help set the bar for engineering excellence. You'll collaborate closely with product, design, and fellow engineers to ship high-quality solutions that empower physicians and improve patient care.

About Regard

Our mission is to bring world-class healthcare to everyone. Regard is the world’s first comprehensive, automated diagnosis tool. Regard streamlines clinical and revenue cycle efforts to dramatically improve hospital finances, patient safety, and physician happiness. We are excited by challenges, mission-oriented work, and meaningful relationships. We work closely with some of the top health systems in the country and are leading the change that healthcare - one of the largest and most inefficient industries in the world - needs. We want you to join us.

Our Tech Stack:

• **Frontend:** TypeScript, React, Tiptap
• **Backend:** Python (FastAPI, Flask), PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery
• **Infrastructure & DevOps:** Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (SQS, SNS), GitLab CI/CD
• **APIs & AI:** OpenAPI, OpenAI (GPT models)

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product and design team members to best design medium to large projects balancing speed to market, user experience, business goals, and technical architecture quality
• Own medium to large backend services and drive improvements across system design, observability, testing, performance, and support.
• Drive backend development practices, patterns, and processes along with the other Regard backend experts
• Mentor and review code from less experienced developer...