Role Summary
The Senior Node Software Engineer is a technically senior, backend-focused individual contributor leading the Node sub-team's technical direction, architecture decisions, and code quality standards, while remaining deeply hands-on in the design, development, and delivery of Evry Health's backend platform. The role centers on building Node.js and TypeScript services, Next.js API routes, and the underlying data layer, bringing a system-level perspective to architecture that considers performance, security, scalability, and healthcare regulatory compliance. Engineers in this role partner with frontend and mobile teams on API contracts but do not own frontend development.
Responsibilities
Backend Architecture & System Design: Leads architecture of the backend platform — service and API structure, asynchronous and real-time processing, rate limiting and resiliency, and relational/document data modeling — documenting decisions for stakeholders.
Senior-Level Backend Feature Development: Owns design and implementation of the most complex backend features using Node.js and TypeScript, delivering production-quality code that sets the team standard.
Node.js Services & Next.js API Development: Designs and implements complex Next.js API routes and Node.js backend services — API design and contracts, authentication/authorization, caching, messaging, and relational/document database design and access — enabling frontend and mobile teams to build on stable, well-documented interfaces.
Technical Leadership & Mentoring: Provides day-to-day technical leadership to the Node sub-team — leading code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and establishing and enforcing Node coding standards.
Performance, Testing & CI/CD Ownership: Owns backend performance optimization, testing strategy, and CI/CD pipeline governance, ensuring HIPAA-compliant, secure, and high-availability services.
Qualifications
Required
Bachelor's degree in CS, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
7+ years of professional software development experience with primary backend expertise
Deep, demonstrable proficiency with Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js (API routes) building production services and APIs
Strong relational and document database design experience, and experience deploying and operating services on a cloud platform (Azure preferred)
Preferred
10+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development
Experience in healthcare technology, health insurance, or another regulated industry
Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7 FHIR, X12, NCPDP) as applied to data integration and API design
Experience with real-time systems (WebSockets), event-driven architecture, GraphQL/tRPC, and monorepo tooling
Telecommuting Requirements
This is a remote position. Our whole company works remotely. Company headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. Candidates must reside in the Eastern or Central time zones.
Company business hours are weekdays 9-5 CST.
As part of the interview process, finalists will be required to attend an in-person interview at our Dallas headquarters.
Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separate from other living areas and provides information privacy.
Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure.
Must live in a location that receives an existing high-speed internet connection/service.