Backend Engineer
Lead backend development for a telehealth platform, designing scalable microservices and APIs using Python and Go, deploying on AWS with Kubernetes, managing databases, and implementing CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable delivery of sleep diagnostics solutions.
About Happy Health
Happy Health is revolutionizing sleep medicine delivery through our comprehensive telehealth platform. We've eliminated the traditional barriers to sleep care – no more waiting months for appointments or spending uncomfortable nights in sleep labs. Our patients receive FDA-cleared home sleep testing via Happy Ring, connect with board-certified sleep specialists, and when required, begin evidence-based treatment within just 5 days.
Happy Ring represents the future of sleep diagnostics: an FDA-cleared medical device integrating advanced biometric sensors with AI-powered analysis to deliver clinical-grade accuracy in the home environment. For sleep medicine practitioners, this means you'll have access to high-quality diagnostic data that empowers you to make confident clinical decisions for your patients.
Overview
This position on the software team has direct ownership of and responsibility for the architecture, scalability, reliability, security, and long-term evolution of our backend infrastructure.
As part of the software team behind the Happy Health product, you will help ensure that the integrated services and systems instrumental to the customer-facing experience (e.g. CRM, EHR, eComm, 3PL, etc.) are designed and operated to scale reliably. You will also help lead the design and implementation of internal tools used by technical and non-technical leaders and teams across the company. In addition to a primary role in hands-on engineering, this role will provide technical leadership across backend architecture, integration strategy, engineering standards, and platform decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Architect, build, and evolve a serverless backend stack in AWS, primarily utilizing Python 3.10+, Lambda, CDK, DynamoDB, Cloudfront, SNS, SQS, S3, and other related services to support customer-facing applications and internal operational workflows.
Lead the design, implementation, and integration of our REST API, event processors, services, and underlying datastores that deliver meaningful data to and from customers resulting from their use of the Happy Ring.
Establish and guide backend engineering best practices across system design, observability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and security.
Provide technical leadership to other team members, contractors, and partners building on these systems.
Drive architectural decisions and cross-functional technical alignment across software, mobile, web, eCommerce, operations, and partner-facing systems.
Help ensure regulatory compliance and best practices are maintained across these systems and the mechanisms used to access them, including M2M authentication, authorization, and login workflows.
Identify technical risks, scalability bottlenecks, and platform gaps early, and proactively drive solutions that support near-term commercial growth
Posted June 24, 2026