Location: Costa Rica
Type: Full-time | Senior Level

Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Software Developer to join a mission-driven team in the healthcare technology sector. In this role, youll leverage your expertise in Python and AWS to build scalable platforms, develop backend applications and APIs, and deliver data-driven insights that directly improve patient outcomes.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead large projects from design to production.

• Work with product managers and designers to refine requirements before implementation.

• Demonstrate technical leadership over product features.

• Represent product features technically to stakeholders.

• Take ownership and responsibility for large projects throughout their lifecycle.

• Interact with operations teams as needed to support correct product operation.

• Build backend applications in Python on AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SNS, ECS, etc.

• Process data value through data cleansing, reformatting, parsing, and analysis.

• Interface with code written in a stateful web application framework (React/TypeScript).

• Collaborate with developers to establish consistent APIs across services.

• Employ best practices for API interactions with frontend web applications.

• Implement backend code in a serverless, cloud application paradigm (Flask / AWS Lambda / ECS).

• Make strong architectural choices through careful evaluation and prior experience.

• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment to continually deliver features to stakeholders and clients.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of related job experience with a broad range of technical skills.

• Desire to work in a health technology company.

• Previous Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM) experience preferred.

• Git code management skills with experience working in a mono repository preferred.

• Proficiency working in Linux using Bash, Zsh, Python, Node.js, and similar tools.

• Strong Python (Flask / SQLAlchemy) and TypeScript (React) experience.

• Advanced PostgreSQL knowledge (CTEs, windowing functions, views, stored procedures, full-text or geospatial indexing).

• Expert at developing backend data processing applications.

• Proficiency targeting infrastructure as code with a security mindset (AWS, Terraform).

• Experience integrating monitoring solutions for deployed software and resources.

• A history of delivering complex web applications to the cloud.

• Strong knowledge of unit testing across multiple paradigms.

• Knowledge of integration testing using Playwright or similar frameworks.

• Experience with microservices or API-based application paradigms.

• Excellent written communication skills for remote collaboration.

• Ability to work autonomously while driving proactive collaboration to deliver results.

Benefits

• Competitive salary in USD

• Permanent employment contract (on payroll)

• 🩺 Medical insurance for the employee and direct family members + life insurance (after 3 months)

• Remote work from home (requires a secure and stable connection)

• In-person team meetings approximately every 6 weeks to strengthen collaboration and team bonds

• Candidates must reside in Costa Rica and hold a valid work permit.

  • We cannot hire from other countries or sponsor work visas.