Backend Developer-Python
Location: Remote in US
6+ MONTHS CONTRACT
Role summary
Design, build and operate the backend services and data-processing engines that power Client''''s value-based care platform — including the risk/financial calculation engines that turn claims and clinical data into actionable insights for independent practices.
Key responsibilities
•Build and maintain scalable backend services, APIs and batch/stream data pipelines in a healthcare data environment.
•Develop and optimize calculation/risk engines that process large volumes of claims and clinical data.
• Write well-tested, production-grade code and participate in code reviews, CI/CD and on-call rotation.
•Partner with product and data teams to translate requirements into reliable, performant services.
Skills
• Python
• SQL
• AWS
• Strong production experience building services and data pipelines; relational database design and query optimization; deploying and operating workloads on AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3).
• Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark, Airflow, dbt or similar).
• Healthcare / claims / EHR data exposure.
•Microservices, event-driven architecture, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
•Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).