WellSync is a modern health-tech company on a mission to make virtual care accessible to everyone. They are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain microservices in Go, integrating with third-party healthcare systems and ensuring HIPAA compliance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain microservices in Go within a monorepo containing 19 services and 25+ shared packages
- Work with gRPC and gRPC-Gateway for inter-service communication and REST API transcoding
- Integrate with third-party healthcare systems including EMRs, pharmacy networks, and payment providers
- Build event-driven features using Apache Kafka — CloudEvents, dead-letter queues, and event scheduling
- Write and optimize PostgreSQL queries (with PostGIS) and manage schema migrations
- Implement and maintain column-level encryption, searchable encryption, and other security measures for patient data
- Contribute to our observability stack: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo, and Pyroscope
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Skaffold, Helm, and Ko
- Write integration tests using Testcontainers against real PostgreSQL and Kafka instances
- Participate in code reviews, pair programming sessions, and architecture discussions
Requirements:
- 3–7 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong proficiency in Go — or a strong backend language with a genuine commitment to Go full-time
- Production experience building and operating microservices
- Solid PostgreSQL skills: schema design, migrations, and indexing strategy
- Experience with message brokers: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable event-driven systems
- Familiarity with gRPC / Protocol Buffers — or strong REST API design with eagerness to adopt gRPC
- Containerization and Kubernetes experience: deploying, debugging, reading manifests
- Understanding of auth patterns: OAuth2, JWT, RBAC
- Comfort with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- Strong focus on code quality, testing, and security best practices
- Healthcare or health-tech background: HIPAA compliance, PHI handling
- Hands-on Azure experience: AKS, Blob Storage, Key Vault
- Observability tooling: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus
- Data encryption patterns: column-level or searchable encryption
- Third-party API integrations: payment gateways, healthcare systems, EHRs
- Open-source contributions