The roleWe are hiring for a founding backend software engineer to build the systems that power Hera's care platform with rigor, reliability, and long-term scalability. This role is for an engineer who cares deeply about sound systems design, high-quality architecture, and getting the details right in an environment where trust, data sensitivity, and operational correctness matter.
What you'll do- Design and build core backend systems. You will architect and implement the infrastructure, services, and internal platform capabilities that underpin Hera's product and operations.
- Build for reliability and correctness. You will create systems that are fault-tolerant, idempotent, and thoughtfully designed to handle sensitive workflows safely.
- Own critical data and infrastructure decisions. You will help shape how Hera handles complex workflows involving medical, billing, operational, and user data across the platform.
- Develop robust APIs and service architecture. You will build well-crafted consumer-grade APIs and contribute to a scalable, maintainable systems foundation.
- Raise the bar on engineering rigor. You will bring strong opinions around unit testing, system performance, design quality, and technical standards across the backend.
What we are looking for- Strong backend and infrastructure fundamentals. You have experience designing systems with sound architecture, strong performance, and long-term maintainability.
- Attention to detail. You care deeply about correctness, resilience, and the details that matter when building systems that touch sensitive or high-stakes workflows.
- Relevant systems experience. Experience with cloud infrastructure, multiple database types, consumer-scale APIs, SDKs, and service-oriented architecture is highly relevant.
- Security and compliance awareness. Experience working with permissions, role-based access controls, security-sensitive flows, compliance-minded systems, or other trust-critical infrastructure is a major plus.
- Ownership and autonomy. You are self-directed, opinionated in a healthy way, and excited to take responsibility for major technical decisions as an early engineer.
- Technical fluency. AWS or similar cloud experience, SQL and non-SQL database experience, and strong comfort with modern backend development practices are highly relevant for this role.
CompensationWe pay at the top of market with founding-level equity. People who deliver outsized outcomes should be rewarded with outsized upside.
