Principal Backend Developer

19 hours, 43 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Software Development
Happy Health

Happy Health

Happy Health is a technology company located in Austin, Texas, focused on a consumer-first healthcare platform that specializes in at-home sleep diagnostics and personalized treatment. The company employs between 201 and 500 people and aims to empower patients through its innovative digital health solutions. Its flagship program, Happy Sleep, launched in 2024, provides results in as little as five days using FDA-cleared devices and AI-driven insights. The Happy Sleep platform offers comprehensive sleep health services, including home sleep tests, virtual consultations with board-certified sleep doctors, and personalized care plans. The Happy Ring, an FDA-cleared smart ring, serves as a clinical-grade device for accurate sleep testing and health monitoring. Happy Health also provides various treatment options tailored to individual lifestyles and budgets, with real-time data to adjust care plans dynamically. The platform extends its services to chronic condition management, integrating AI for notifications and clinical support.

information technology & services
201-500
Founded 2019
$60M raised

Description

  • Architect, build, and evolve a serverless AWS backend for customer-facing applications and internal workflows.
  • Design and integrate REST APIs, event processors, services, and datastores that exchange Happy Ring data with customers and partners.
  • Lead backend architecture, integration strategy, engineering standards, and platform decisions.
  • Establish best practices for system design, observability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and security.
  • Ensure regulatory compliance and secure access mechanisms, including machine-to-machine authentication, authorization, and login workflows.
  • Identify and address technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, and platform gaps.
  • Provide technical leadership to engineers, contractors, and partners building on backend systems.
  • Collaborate with eCommerce, mobile, operations, and partner teams to deliver scalable integrations across CRM, EHR, purchasing, logistics, and mobile systems.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of backend software development experience.
  • 5+ years of Python experience.
  • 5+ years of experience building and operating production systems in AWS.
  • Experience designing scalable APIs, cloud infrastructure, and continuous integration workflows.
  • Strong ability to make technical tradeoffs across performance, reliability, security, and delivery speed.
  • Proven ability to lead technical design and influence engineering direction across systems or teams.
  • 2+ years of healthcare technology experience (preferred).
  • Experience in regulated environments with security, privacy, and compliance requirements (preferred).
  • Experience with serverless architecture at scale, including AWS services such as Lambda, CDK, DynamoDB, CloudFront, SNS, SQS, and S3 (preferred).
  • Experience with GraphQL, OpenAPI, client SDK generation, or EHR, CRM, eCommerce, and logistics/3PL integrations (preferred).

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