[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Weave is on a mission to elevate the patient experience by providing healthcare practices with essential tools. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and deliver scalable backend systems, collaborating with teams across the U.S. and India to enhance the functionality of Weave's platform.ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Golang microservicesDrive technical architecture and contribute to long-term system health by anticipating scaling and maintenance needsCollaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and frontend teams to deliver high-impact featuresParticipate in system design reviews, propose and implement robust solutions, and contribute to Weave’s overall engineering strategyOwn the quality, reliability, and observability of your code from development to productionHelp plan and execute projects from inception to delivery, with a strong sense of ownership and outcome-orientationMentor peers and junior engineers by sharing your knowledge and encouraging best practicesParticipate in on-call rotation and escalation as needed, providing hands-on support during critical incidents and mentoring team members through complex production issuesEstablish and maintain operational excellence standards, including SLAs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes for your team's servicesSkills5+ years of backend engineering experience with modern programming languages such as Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, or C# (Golang preferred or willingness to learn)Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend servicesStrong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis)Experience working with relational databases and SQLWillingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systemsYou've deployed and maintained services in cloud environments, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP)You're comfortable with Docker/Kubernetes, observability tooling (metrics, alerts, tracing), and service reliabilityYou've worked with protobufs/gRPC, or Temporal, and have experience breaking monoliths into microservicesYou're thoughtful about technical debt and scalability, and you write code with both today and the future in mindYou value cross-functional collaboration and can explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholdersYou lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around youCompany OverviewWeave makes communicating with customers easier for businesses by integrating features like texting, phone service, fax, and reviews. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Lehi, Utah, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.getweave.com.Company H1B SponsorshipWeave has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 2 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 1 in 2022, 4 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.