Oura is on a mission to empower individuals to own their inner potential through their award-winning products, which help users understand their readiness, activity, and sleep quality.
The engineering organization at Oura consists of talented developers across the EU and US, organized into smaller cross-functional feature squads.
The Senior Backend Engineer will join the Women's Health team, focusing on creating features that provide insights into reproductive health and overall well-being.
Responsibilities include owning high-quality solutions from design to production, tackling ambiguous problems, ensuring compliance with security and regulatory standards, driving architectural improvements, and collaborating with a diverse team.
This is a remote role with a preference for candidates in the US-Pacific timezone, with options for hybrid or office settings in San Francisco and San Diego.
Requirements:
A minimum of 5+ years of practical backend development experience with Python is required.
Candidates must have experience architecting, building, and deploying scalable web services in production on AWS or similar platforms.
The ability to write highly maintainable, extensible, well-tested, and easy-to-understand code is essential.
Candidates should have a strong affinity for automating tasks and addressing root problems.
A pragmatic entrepreneurial attitude and a delivery-focused mindset are necessary, with an understanding of trade-offs between short-term goals and long-term tech debt.
Solid computer science fundamentals and knowledge of design patterns are required.
Nice to haves include experience with Python web server frameworks like FastAPI, working within a HIPAA environment, deploying infrastructure to different environments, building efficient database schemas, and developing women’s health or wellness products.
Benefits:
Oura offers competitive salary and equity packages.
Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources are provided.
Employees receive an Oura Ring and discounts for friends and family.
The position includes 20 days of paid time off, 13 paid holidays, and 8 days of flexible wellness time off.
Paid sick leave and parental leave are also included in the benefits package.
