Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

Oura
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: []

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable Python-based services on AWS, contributing to secure, high-performance systems. You’ll work within cross-functional squads to drive architectural improvements, own end-to-end delivery, and collaborate across distributed teams to support wearable health technology products.

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Oura
Oura
10 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer (Python)

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Job Summary

Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable Python-based services on AWS, contributing to secure, high-performance systems. You’ll work within cross-functional squads to drive architectural improvements, own end-to-end delivery, and collaborate across distributed teams to support wearable health technology products.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own high quality solutions from design to production, including testing, monitoring, and documentation, while helping shape best practices across the engineering lifecycle.
  • •Proactively tackle ambiguous problems, reducing their complexity into clear, simple, and actionable solutions with stakeholder alignment.
  • •Ensure all solutions meet the latest security, privacy, and regulatory standards.
  • •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.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionEquityParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Minimum 5+ years of practical backend development work experience with Python.
  • •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.
  • •Write code that is highly maintainable, extensible, well-tested, and easy-to-understand.
  • •Have an affinity for automating busywork and diving into the details to fix problems at the root.
  • •Solid computer science fundamentals and design patterns.
Experience:5+ yearsWearablesHealthtechConsumer electronics
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonAWSFastAPISQLPostgreSQLDockerKubernetes

Company Brief

Oura
Designs and sells the Oura Ring, a wearable device that tracks sleep, activity, and physiological signals to provide personalized health, recovery, and readiness insights via a companion app and analytics platform.
Industry: Wearables
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: Oulu, Finland
Founded: 2013
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