Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale virtual care platform for seniors.
•Papa Community is a 0-to-1 venture building virtual care for seniors, offering the autonomy of an early-stage startup with the stability of a growth-stage company.
•As an early team member, you will have a significant impact on improving patient outcomes and driving scalability.
•Key Responsibilities Build and scale Papa Community's proprietary platform, the operational backbone for the care team.
•Strengthen the revenue cycle management pipeline through integration and improvement of RCM vendor relationships.
•Extend platform and tooling investments, including transactional email and customer support systems.
•Enable operational intelligence and automation through data infrastructure and tooling for clinical teams.
•Contribute to critical technical decisions, build vs. buy trade-offs, and the technical roadmap.
•Requirements 6+ years of software development experience.
•Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails or Python. 1+ years of hands-on experience with Elixir.
•Experience building and shipping high-quality, reliable systems with proper code reviews, testing, rollout, and monitoring.
•Passionate about improving healthcare access and outcomes.
ElixirRuby on RailsPythonMicroservicesREST APICI/CDDockerKubernetesSQL
Nice-to-have skills
gRPCWebSockets
Domain expertise
healthtechhealthcare
Benefits & perks
Equity, Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), 401(k) plan with company match, Flexible PTO, 11 paid company holidays, Parental leave, Caregiver leave
Tech stack
ElixirRuby on RailsPythonPhoenixREST APIgRPCWebSockets