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Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Competitive salary
Role Description
The Senior Backend Engineer will lead the design and implementation of high-scale, serverless backend services using AWS, Python, Relational and NoSQL database, and modern architectural designs. You’ll own systems end-to-end, from design, development, and testing, through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvements. You will collaborate with engineering, analytics, product, and operations teams to build data pipelines, APIs, event-driven workflows, and durable processing engines that are foundational to delivering an exceptional, predictable healthcare experience. This role owns services end-to-end—from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement—ensuring reliability, performance, and security for mission-critical healthcare workflows.
The Senior Backend Engineer will lead the design and implementation of high-scale, serverless backend services using AWS, Python, Relational and NoSQL database, and modern architectural designs. You’ll own systems end-to-end, from design, development, and testing, through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvements. You will collaborate with engineering, analytics, product, and operations teams to build data pipelines, APIs, event-driven workflows, and durable processing engines that are foundational to delivering an exceptional, predictable healthcare experience. This role owns services end-to-end—from architecture and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement—ensuring reliability, performance, and security for mission-critical healthcare workflows.
Responsibilities
Architecture and System Design
Architecture and System Design
- Design and build large-scale, resilient, serverless systems using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Kafka.
- Architect durable, fault-tolerant workflows for claims processing, episode generation, eligibility updates, communication engines, and other core healthcare processes.
- Create and evolve backend APIs for both B2C (member portal) and B2B (payer, employer, provider) integrations.
Engineering and Implementation
- Develop high-quality backend services in Python, following strict test-driven development (TDD) practices.
- Build clean, well-structured codebases emphasizing maintainability, testability, reliability, and scalability.
- Implement secure data flows and storage patterns aligned with HIPAA and healthcare compliance best practices.
Data and Healthcare Standards
- Work with structured and semi-structured healthcare data (for example, eligibility, claims, and clinical data).
- Partner with Analytics and Data Engineering to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and fidelity.
Operational Excellence
- Own systems end to end: development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability dashboards.
- Continuously improve reliability through canaries, alarms, automated rollback, and well-designed SLOs.
Collaboration and Leadership
- Drive cross-functional architectural discussions and propose scalable, long-term solutions.
- Mentor and hire engineers, raising the bar for engineering culture, coding standards, and system design thinking.
- Work closely with product to refine requirements, define technical specs, and deliver high-value features.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a proven track record of shipping and operating production-grade systems.
- Expert-level proficiency in AWS serverless, including Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions, Kafka/SQS, and event-driven architectures.
- Strong Python engineering fundamentals, including TDD, dependency injection, modular code, and clean design patterns.
- Deep understanding of high-scale system design, distributed computing, data modeling, fault tolerance, and observability.
- Experience building B2C and B2B systems that serve thousands of users and millions of transactions.
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, RDS, Kafka, caching strategies, and database schema design.
- Strong experience building scalable, public-facing RESTful APIs.
- Strong ownership mindset and a passion for delivering high-quality, reliable systems from design to production.
- Experience collaborating with SecOps, DevOps, and analytics teams, with comfort using GitHub Actions, IaC, and automated pipelines.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
- Bonus: Experience with healthcare EDI standards (837/834), payer systems, claims processing, HIPAA compliance, or health-tech domain work.
Compensation: $145,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year
Decca Recruiting’s strength in IT staffing is our agility and more than 50 years of combined IT staffing and project management experience of our key management personnel.
Our Agility comes with our ability to streamline and simplify tasks to avoid complexity and increase efficiency.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Norwalk, Connecticut |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2007 |
| Website | http://www.deccaconsulting.com |
About Company
At Decca Consulting, we believe that success begins with exceeding our clients’ expectations in both service and advice. Our target is to establish a long-term, trusted relationship with each of our clients, by continually providing staffing solutions that meet each organization’s unique needs.
Founded in 2006, Decca Consulting has more than 50 years combined experience in staffing solutions. We believe in these three steps to successful staffing:
- Find the Best-Fit Talent
- Deliver on time
- Follow through with onsite support
Our Mission: With a focus on timely delivery of the best candidates for the job, Decca Consulting is proud to serve the unique staffing needs of the gas and oil industry through targeted solutions and onsite support.
Our Specialty: Providing IT/Engineering staffing solutions for the gas and oil industry, delivering exceptional candidates experienced in the information technology arm that serves the ever-expanding world of the gas and oil industry. With more than a decade of experience in solving the unique staffing needs for the gas and oil industry, we are primed to meet the challenge of sourcing the right candidate in a timely, professional manner.
A Step Beyond: Because of the trusted connection developed with our long-time, satisfied gas and oil clients, they asked for our assistance in sourcing the right candidates throughout their companies. So, we’ve expanded our services to provide staffing solutions beyond the realm of IT.
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