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About this role:
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you'll build the core backend infrastructure that powers our agent platform at scale. You'll develop high-performance services that handle millions of conversations per month, focusing on concurrency, reliability, and clean system design. This role requires strong concurrency programming skills and curiosity for finding good solutions to complex technical challenges.
What you'll do:
As a Senior Software Engineer (Backend), you'll build the core backend infrastructure that powers our agent platform at scale. You'll develop high-performance services that handle millions of conversations per month, focusing on concurrency, reliability, and clean system design. This role requires strong concurrency programming skills and curiosity for finding good solutions to complex technical challenges.
What you'll do:
- Design and implement high-performance backend services handling concurrent requests at scale
- Build robust APIs and service-oriented architectures that power our agent platform
- Develop systems with concurrency patterns to maximize throughput and reliability
- Implement secure data handling for sensitive healthcare information with proper access controls
- Work with distributed systems concepts like consensus, replication, and fault tolerance
- Build resilient services that gracefully handle failures and maintain high availability
- Optimize system performance through careful concurrency design and resource management
- Solve complex backend challenges with simple, maintainable solutions
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for backend services
- Collaborate with platform teams to ensure integration across services
- Design systems that scale horizontally while maintaining data consistency
- Contribute to architectural decisions that shape our backend infrastructure
- 4 years of production-level experience with backend development languages
- Strong experience with concurrency programming, including threads, async operations, and parallelism
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems or working with distributed architectures
- Background working on SaaS platforms or with Service-Oriented Architectures
- Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration technologies
- Strong understanding of security best practices and experience with systems handling sensitive data
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts (consensus, replication, partitioning) without necessarily having built foundational frameworks
- Experience with message queuing systems, event streaming, and async communication patterns
- Knowledge of database systems, both SQL and NoSQL, and their scaling characteristics
- Curiosity for elegant solutions and clean, maintainable code
- Strong debugging skills for concurrent and distributed systems
- Strong problem-solving abilities with focus on system reliability and performance
- Experience in healthcare, finance, or other regulated industries
- Understanding of observability and monitoring in distributed environments
- Experience with high-throughput, low-latency system design
- Background with complex data processing systems
EOE Statement: Specialist Staffing Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
In addition to base pay, direct-hire employees may be eligible for client offered benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, and paid leave where required by applicable law. Eligibility may vary based on factors such as location and hire date and is subject to change.
To find out more about Huxley, please visit www.huxley.com
Salary : $180,000 - $220,000