Software Engineer - Backend Services

Software Engineer - Backend Services Truveta is the world’s first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values . This position is based out of our headquarters in the Greater Seattle area. #LI-hybrid Who We Need Truveta is building a diverse and inclusive team to tackle complex health and technical challenges. We are seeking enthusiastic new graduates who are problem-solvers, collaborative teammates, and eager to make a difference in healthcare. If you’re excited about purposeful work, joining a mission-driven team, and launching your career in a supportive environment, Truveta could be the perfect place to start. This Opportunity Patients, doctors, and medical researchers deserve technology that is reliable, secure, and capable of turning health data into meaningful insight. As part of the Intelligence Platform and Applications team, you’ll use your expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and production operations to build the robust service layer that intelligent healthcare applications depend on. This is an opportunity to contribute to meaningful backend services and features end to end: from service design and API development to deployment, debugging, observability, reliability, and security. You’ll work across platform, application, data, and AI-enabled workflows, helping ensure that services are well-architected, operationally sound, and built for long-term maintainability. If you’re motivated by purpose and enjoy building durable backend systems that support learning, decision-making, and discovery in healthcare, you’ll find this an inspiring place to grow. You’ll work in an ambitious, fast-paced, collaborative environment where every contribution helps make healthcare more connected, intelligent, and impactful. We are seeking engineers who: Design and build production-grade backend services: Experienced in service architecture, API design, async-first Python development, testing, packaging, debugging, and operating backend systems in production. Contribute to backend features and services end to end: Capable of taking well-scoped services and features from design through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance. Engineer for scale, resilience, and maintainability: Grounded in modular architecture, separation of concerns, code quality, observability, performance, and pragmatic design trade-offs. Bring strong Python backend craftsmanship: Experienced with async programming, modern Python service patterns, well-tested code, and tools such as uv , ruff , and ty to deliver reliable, maintainable systems. Support AI-enabled workflows through strong backend foundations: Experienced integrating, or contributing to integrations with, LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, or equivalent into backend services, with attention to reliability, security, latency, error handling, and maintainability. Understand modern AI service integration patterns: Practical exposure to agentic AI frameworks or interoperability protocols such as LangGraph, LangChain, MCP, or A2A, and an understanding of how these patterns support tool orchestration, service integration, and AI workflow design. Improve deployment and operational reliability: Able to contribute to CI/CD configuration, deployment stage setup, pipeline hardening, environment debugging, rollback strategy, and production readiness. Build reliable cloud-native systems: Hands-on with Docker, devcontainers, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code patterns, AKS, Terraform/Terragrunt, and deployment automation. Build secure se…