Senior Software Engineer (Backend) Lingo

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

ABOUT LINGO
Lingo is building a cuttingedge digital health platform that fuses continuous biosensor data highperformance backend engineering and advanced analytics to help people live healthier longer fuller lives. Our systems process massive volumes of realtime data and the backend is the heartbeat that transforms biosensor signals into actionable health insights for our users.

THE OPPORTUNITY
Were seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design build and optimize Lingos backend systems ensuring they are scalable resilient and secure. You will play a pivotal role in implementing highperformance APIs eventdriven services and data integrations across our global this role youll work closely with Product Mobile Platform/SRE and Data/ML teams to deliver robust cloudnative services troubleshoot complex issues and continuously improve reliability and developer experience. Youll contribute your expertise to architecture discussions lead implementation of key projects and mentor junior engineers in best practices.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Design develop and maintain scalable microservices and APIs for realtime biosensor data processing.
• Implement eventdriven integrations with messaging/streaming systems (Kafka RabbitMQ) and analytics pipelines.
• Collaborate with SRE to ensure observability performance and operational excellence across backend services.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews contributing to decisions on service boundaries data models and communication patterns.
• Optimize backend services for low latency high throughput and cost efficiency.
• Apply privacybydesign and security standards in line with HIPAA/GDPR compliance requirements.
• Write clean maintainable and testable code; establish and uphold engineering standards within the team.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews pair programming and knowledge sharing sessions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to incident response and postmortem analysis.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-8 years of backend engineering experience with distributed cloudnative systems.
• Strong skills in microservices architecture and API design (REST; familiarity with GraphQL/gRPC is a plus).
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments and familiarity with service mesh concepts.
• Handson proficiency with messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Programming expertise in backend languages such as Java Kotlin Python.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and compliance requirements (HIPAA GDPR or similar).
• Solid understanding of performance optimization scalability patterns and async data processing.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to work crossfunctionally with other engineering and product teams.
  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience integrating backend services with analytics and machine learning pipelines.
• Exposure to API gateways authentication/authorization patterns and rate limiting strategies.
• Background in digital health IoT or other missioncritical platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and infrastructureascode tooling (Terraform Helm).
  

LINGO CULTURE
Customerfirst qualitydriven growthminded and united. As a Senior Backend Engineer youll contribute directly to delivering secure reliable and scalable features helping teams ship innovative health technology quickly and with confidence.

The base pay for this position is

In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.