At dexter health, we build AI-powered software for care teams to reduce administrative workload in healthcare. We are looking for a high-agency Backend Python Engineer to improve and scale backend systems.
Requirements
- Strong Python backend experience in production environments
- Experience with databases, data models, and API integrations
- Solid understanding of REST APIs, authentication, retries, rate limits, and error handling
- Experience with cloud technologies such as GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar
- Experience with background jobs, schedulers, serverless functions, async workflows, or comparable backend infrastructure
- Strong debugging instincts across logs, cloud services, databases, and external APIs
- Experience writing tests and validating backend behavior before shipping
- Ability to work with typed Python, structured data models, and validation frameworks
- Serious experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, or similar
Benefits
- Remote work
- Fair compensation based on skills, experience, and location
- Ownership of important backend systems
- Work on software used in real healthcare workflows
- Modern AI-native development workflow
- Room to grow with the company