engineering
Posted Jun 22Senior Backend Engineer (Python)
at oura
United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Own high quality solutions from design to production, including testing, monitoring, and documentation, while helping shape best practices across the engineering lifecycle
- Drive architectural improvements to scale the platform, evolve our infrastructure, and support new product capabilities.
- Collaborate effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team, adapting as Oura evolves and new opportunities emerge. Requirements
- Write code that is highly maintainable, extensible, well-tested, and easy-to-understand
Requirements
- Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app.
- Have architected, built, and deployed scalable, performant, and highly available web services in production on AWS or similar platforms, and can apply architectural patterns and best practices to new and existing products
- Solid computer science fundamentals and design patterns Nice to haves: •
- Experience with Python web server frameworks, such as FastAPI •
- Experience working within a regulated environment •
- Experience with one or more of the following: PCI DSS compliance, data labeling and curation workflows for multimodal or unstructured datasets, dataset generation for model training, cross-functional collaboration with Science and Research teams to define data schemas and label taxonomies, and development of E2E ML training pipelines •
- Experience supporting internal and external security and regulatory audits •
- Experience in deploying infrastructure to different environments •
- Experience in building efficient, scalable database schemas and/or query optimization •
- Experience working asynchronously across time zones Benefits
Experience
- Minimum 5+ years of practical backend development work experience with Python
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources
- An Oura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family
- 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off
- Paid sick leave and parental leave
- While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions.
- Region 1 $162,000- $203,000
- Region 2 $150,000- $187,000
- Region 3 $139,000- $174,000
- Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by
Additional details
- Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential.
- We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.
- Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team.
- As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office.
- Our engineering organization consists of many talented developers distributed across the EU and US. For day-to-day feature work, our engineers are organized into smaller cross-functional feature squads or teams.
- Our squads have a great deal of autonomy and are responsible for the development and architecture of their features.
- Squads take full ownership of their code and handle everything from concepting, design and implementation to release, maintenance and bug fixes.
- This is a remote US role with a preference for candidates based in the US-Pacific timezone.
- We have offices in San Francisco and San Diego for those who prefer hybrid or office settings.
- We also have employee hubs in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, and more.