Backend Software Engineer (Data Platform)

• Vida is looking for a Backend Software Engineer II to help build the data platform that supports much of Vida’s business

• Our team builds the systems that turn data from health plans, employers, and other partners into reliable information that Vida’s products and operations can use
• That includes member identity, eligibility, billing, partner integrations, and the data foundations behind reporting and analytics
• You will work on backend services and data-intensive systems, primarily in Python, and take features from design through production
• You will start with well-defined problems and grow toward owning services and technical decisions independently
• Build backend services that ingest, validate, reconcile, and serve data from external partners
• Develop systems for member identity, eligibility, billing, and other core business domains
• Design APIs, asynchronous workflows, and data pipelines used across Vida
• Make systems resilient to incomplete, duplicated, delayed, and inconsistent real-world data
• Build safe ways to retry, replay, and recover data when something goes wrong
• Improve the reliability, observability, testing, and performance of production systems
• Work with Engineering, Product, and Operations to figure out what needs to be built when the requirements are incomplete or messy
• Additional responsibilities as needed