Backend Software Engineer

Role

Backend Software Engineer (Python / AWS) for a healthcare SaaS platform supporting home sleep testing and sleep-study operations.

Location / Work Model

• Euclid, Ohio (Cleveland area), hybrid
• 3 days/week in office, 2 days/week remote
• Expect more onsite time in the first several weeks to ramp up on systems.

Compensation

• $110,000–$135,000 base (commensurate with experience)
• Employer-subsidized health insurance
• Optional dental/vision/legal coverage at group rates

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the Python backend API (features, integrations, bug fixes, reporting).
• Work with relational data in a managed cloud database (schema design, migrations, complex queries, performance).
• Write and improve automated tests and use them to safely change production systems.
• Diagnose production issues using logs, metrics, and source code.
• Implement asynchronous/background processing (managed queues, scheduled jobs, data-processing pipelines).
• Create internal workflow automation connecting business systems (support, shipping/logistics, quality management) via automation platforms and vendor APIs.
• Maintain security/compliance in AWS (dependency/OS updates; remediate cloud security scan and compliance findings).
• Own a defined area of the platform through peer-reviewed code changes and a controlled release process.

Growth Opportunities

• Modernize scientific/signal-processing code into Python.
• Build self-contained backend deployment models for customer environments.
• Extend AWS infrastructure for data residency (IaC, networking, deployment automation).
• Evaluate/customize an ERP platform and integrate with existing systems.
• Potential front-end work on a modern JavaScript single-page application.

Requirements

• 5+ years building and supporting production web applications; experience where you personally owned a system others depended on.
• Strong Python and experience with an API/web framework such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Solid SQL and relational database skills (design tables, write non-trivial queries, troubleshoot performance).
• Experience with REST APIs and working knowledge of authentication/authorization.
• Practical experience with automated testing.
• Familiarity with production systems/operations (the posting cuts off after “Working familiarity with at least”).

Nice to Have

• Experience with managed cloud databases such as AWS RDS or Cloud SQL.