Python Backend Developer - Patient Summaries

We are looking for a motivated Software Engineer (IC3 level) to join the Patient Summaries team, focused on building and enhancing healthcare solutions that generate and manage patient summary data across clinical systems. In this role, you will contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of scalable backend services and integrations supporting healthcare workflows. You will work closely with Product Management, Architecture, QA, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality, reliable, and secure solutions. This position is ideal for an engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, contributing to API and service design, and working in a collaborative cloud-native environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain features related to Patient Summaries

• Build and enhance backend services, APIs, and integrations

• Design and implement scalable and maintainable REST APIs

• Contribute to API design discussions and service architecture decisions

• Develop automation tools and data-processing workflows using Python

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, QA, and engineering teams to define and implement technical

solutions

• Investigate and resolve production issues

• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices

• Write unit and integration tests to ensure software quality

• Improve system scalability, reliability, and performance

• Contribute to Agile/Scrum development processes

• Create and maintain technical documentation

What You need to know – Must Have

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong programming skills in Python

• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs

• Experience developing backend services and microservice-based architectures

• Understanding of API design best practices, versioning, and service contracts

• Familiarity with OpenAPI / Swagger specifications

• Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases

• Strong experience with software testing, including unit, integration, and regression testing

• Practical experience with test-driven development or writing tests as part of the development lifecycle

• Experience using testing frameworks and CI/CD quality gates to validate code changes

• Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines

• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud environments

• Good written and spoken English communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot

• Experience in healthcare domain (FHIR / HL7 standards)

• Experience designing healthcare interoperability APIs based on FHIR standards

• Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), cloud environments, and cloud-native architectures

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, logging solutions)

• Basic frontend/UI development experience (React, TypeScript, or similar frameworks)

• Experience collaborating on end-to-end feature development across backend and UI layers

• Familiarity with modern web technologies and frontend API integration

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on impactful healthcare solutions

• Collaboration with international engineering teams

• Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies

• Flexible working environment

• Career growth and technical development opportunities

• Work on scalable systems used in real-world clinical environments

Qualifications