[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Weave

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Payments Team, you will lead complex, multi-team projects, drive architectural decisions, and tackle the most challenging technical problems within Weave’s payments platform. You will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment, partnering with product managers, designers, front-end engineers, and fellow backend engineers to deliver impactful solutions at scale.

You’ll thrive here if you care deeply about customers, lead with curiosity, and live by our core values:

• Think creatively.
• Stay hungry.
• Do the right thing.
• Care more.
• The customer is everything.

If you're excited about transforming healthcare with purpose-driven work and smart teammates by your side, we'd love to meet you.

Qualifications

• 5+ 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 services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and inter-service communication (e.g., protobufs/gRPC, ReST, Kafka, Redis).
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation with your team and take responsibility for production systems.

Requirements

• You’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 reliability.
• You’ve worked with protobufs/gRPC, or Temporal, and have experience breaking monoliths into microservices.
• You’re thoughtful about technical debt and scalability, and you write code with both today and the future in mind.
• You value cross-functional collaboration and can explain complex systems to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You lead with curiosity, seek to understand before acting, and strive to elevate the team around you.

Company Description

Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Beware of recruitment fraud. All official correspondence will occur through Weave branded email. We will never ask you to share bank account information, cash a check from us, or purchase software or equipment as part of your interview or hiring process.