🐍 Backend Developer (Python / Docker)

Location:

Remote

Type:

Full-Time / Contract

About the Role

We are looking for a sharp, autonomous

Backend Developer to join a high-energy team building robust features and scalable tools. You will own the full product lifecycle—from ideation and architecture to third-party integrations, auth pipelines, and production support—while helping modernize legacy systems along the way.

What You’ll Do

• Build &
  • Scale:

  Rapidly build, iterate, test, and deploy new products and features while maintaining a robust, high-quality codebase.

• Integrate &
  • Connect:

  Design third-party integrations and handle complex auth processes, connecting systems via healthcare data, health companies, and EMRs.

Collaborate:

Work closely with engineering, product management, QA, and operations in an Agile environment to drive data-driven decisions.

• Maintain &
  • Modernize:

  Troubleshoot complex bugs, resolve production issues, and support the mid-term migration of legacy apps to newer tech stacks.

🔒 Mandatory Skills &

• Requirements

Experience:

5+ years of professional software development experience.

CS Fundamentals:

Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.

Python Mastery:

Advanced proficiency in

Python 3.12+

(software or data engineering).

• APIs &
  • Frameworks:

  Mastery of

  FastAPI (async)

  and REST API design.

• Database &
  • ORM:

  MongoDB

  , ideally with

  Beanie ODM (async)

  for the persistence layer, plus a comprehensive grasp of general SQL/NoSQL databases.

• Auth &
  • Security:

  OAuth/OIDC + JWT via Keycloak and Descope (provider-agnostic backend working off JWT claims).

Containerization:

Docker / docker-compose

(everything runs in containers).

• Cloud &
  • Architecture:

  Expertise in cloud services,

  Event-Driven Microservices

  , and identity management/OAuth.

Observability:

Experience with tracing, observability, and other cloud-native patterns.

✨ Nice-to-Have Skills

Healthcare interoperability resources

FHIR R4

, SMART Health Links/Cards (SHL/SHC).

• JWE decryption and QR/image decoding (pyzbar/zbar).
• Storage connector integration (Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, SMTP, FHIR servers).
• Testing discipline: pytest + Cucumber/Playwright E2E.
• Observability &
  • Infrastructure: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus,

  Apache Kafka

  , AWS Secrets Manager.