Senior Engineer, Backend Identity

About League

Founded in 2014, League is the leading healthcare consumer experience (CX) platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), reaching more than 63 million people around the world and delivering the highest level of personalization in the industry. Payers, providers, and consumer health partners build on League's platform to deliver high-engagement healthcare solutions proven to improve health outcomes. League has raised over $285 million in venture capital funding to date, powering the digital experiences for some of healthcare's most trusted brands, including Highmark Health, Manulife, Medibank, and Shoppers Drug Mart.

A Day in the Life:

As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Identity Engineering team, you'll design, develop and scale critical identity services and middleware that power League's platform.

You will lead complex projects from discovery to delivery, working primarily with Go, , MongoDB, Auth0, Github & GCP. You will work as part of a small team to deliver features on our roadmap and contribute to building our developer program and tools. You'll be responsible for large pieces of work, as well as setting best practices and mentoring other members of the team with openness and empathy. To thrive in this role, you are someone who works well in teams and enjoys collaborating.

What You Will Do:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable backend services, and data storage solutions, ensuring adherence to engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, proactively identifying root causes.
• Actively participate in technical design and planning discussions, contributing to system design and documentation (including ADRs)
• Uphold code quality standards through code reviews, bug fixes, automated tests, and performance monitoring.
• Lead complex projects from discovery to delivery phases, including requirement gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment.
• Mentor junior engineers, fostering their growth and development.
• Participate in our On-Call rotation

• You have a minimum of 5 years backend development experience
• You enjoy delivering value to customers
• You have experience building scalable, fault-tolerant cloud services
• You know how to write high-quality, testable code, and understand the tradeoffs between expediency and maintainability
• You understand how the web works and what a good API looks like
• When things break, you're eager and able to help fix things

Bonus experience

• Experience building and maintaining environments deployed through infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
• An understanding of basic cryptographic principles and systems.
• Strong experience or knowledge about OAuth, OpenID Connect or FIDO standards.
• Experience working with Golang, Google Cloud Platform or

What We Offer

• Comprehensive Health Benefits: We prioritize your well-being with complete medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Bonus Program: Be rewarded for your contributions with our performance-based bonus program
• Employee Stock Option Program: Become an owner and share in our success through our stock option program
• Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Spending Accounts: Manage your healthcare and dependent care expenses with tax-advantaged spending accounts
• Wellness Days: Prioritize your mental and physical health with dedicated wellness days throughout the year
• Growth Opportunities: We invest in your future with abundant opportunities for professional development and advancement
• Mentorship Program: Benefit from guidance and support from experienced leaders in your field

The Application Process:

We believe applying for a job should be straightforward and transparent. Here's what to expect:

• Submit Your Application: You'll receive a confirmation email right away.

• Intro sessions: Learn more about our culture, get alignment on your compensation expectation prior to committing to next steps

• Take-home assessment

• Meet the Engineering Team: Dive into technical discussions and learn how you can make an impact at League.

• Final Steps: Meet our cross-functional team and the hiring managers and share experiences on collaboration

• Offer and onboarding

We value your time and effort—our team is committed to providing updates throughout the process.

Security-related Responsibilities

• Compliance with Information Security Policies
• Compliance with League's secure coding practice
• Responsibility and accountability for executing League's policies and procedures
• Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations

Our employees come from different backgrounds, and we celebrate those differences. We are looking for the best candidates for our open roles, but do not expect applicants to meet every qualification in order to be considered. If you are excited about what you could accomplish at League and believe you can add value to our team, we would love to hear from you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you are an individual in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at

Our Application Process:

Applying to a role you love can be exhausting, and understanding the next steps can feel vague and uncertain. You have done the hard part of submitting your application; let's do ours by sharing potential next steps

• You should receive a confirmation email after submitting your application.
• A recruiter (not a computer) reviews all applications at League.
• If we see alignment with League's needs, a recruiter will reach out to learn more about your goals. The recruiter will also share the team-specific interview process depending on the roles you are exploring.
• The final step is an offer, which we hope you will accept
• Prior to joining us, we conduct reference and background checks. Additional checks could be required for US Candidates, depending on the role you are exploring.

Here are some additional resources to learn more about League:

• Learn about our platform, leadership team and partners
• Highmark Health, Google Cloud, League: new digital front door to seamless care
• Former Providence President and Workday EVP of Corporate Strategy join League Board of Directors
• League raises $95 million USD in Series C to build world's leading healthcare CX platform
• Forbes x League: The Platformization Of Healthcare Is Here
• Fast Company x League: If we want better innovations in healthtech, we need more competition

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