ŌURA · 1 day ago
Senior Backend Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$162K/yr - $203K/yr
5+ years expŌURA is a rapidly growing company focused on empowering individuals to improve their health through innovative wearable technology. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to take ownership of high-quality solutions from design to production, ensuring that all solutions meet security and regulatory standards while collaborating effectively within a diverse team.
Health Wellness & Fitness
Responsibilities
Own high quality solutions from design to production, including testing, monitoring, and documentation, while helping shape best practices across the engineering lifecycle
Proactively tackle ambiguous problems, reducing their complexity into clear, simple, and actionable solutions with stakeholder alignment
Ensure all solutions meet the latest security, privacy, and regulatory standards
Drive architectural improvements to scale the platform, evolve our infrastructure, and support new product capabilities
Collaborate effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team, adapting as Oura evolves and new opportunities emerge
Qualification
Required
Minimum 5+ years of practical backend development work experience with Python
Have architected, built, and deployed scalable, performant, and highly available web services in production on AWS or similar platforms, and can apply architectural patterns and best practices to new and existing products
Write code that is highly maintainable, extensible, well-tested, and easy-to-understand
Have an affinity for automating busywork and diving into the details to fix problems at the root
Have a pragmatic entrepreneurial attitude and delivery-focused mindset: you understand tradeoffs between short-term goals and long-term tech debt and focus on delivering what's most important
Solid computer science fundamentals and design patterns
Preferred
Experience with Python web server frameworks, such as FastAPI
Experience working within a regulated environment
Experience with one or more of the following: PCI DSS compliance, data labeling and curation workflows for multimodal or unstructured datasets, dataset generation for model training, cross-functional collaboration with Science and Research teams to define data schemas and label taxonomies, and development of E2E ML training pipelines
Experience supporting internal and external security and regulatory audits
Experience in deploying infrastructure to different environments
Experience in building efficient, scalable database schemas and/or query optimization
Experience working asynchronously across time zones
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity packages
Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
Paid sick leave and parental leave
Company
ŌURA
Oura is an award-winning, fast-growing startup that helps people get up close and personal with their health.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Tom Hale
Chief Executive Officer
Sean Brecker
Chief Financial Officer
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