Backend Engineer
Anagram
Software Engineering
Remote
Posted on Jan 21, 2025
Anagram is the ultimate insurance billing platform for eye care providers. Combining instant eligibility and benefit verifications, patient responsibility calculation, claims management, payment posting, and more, Anagram's all-in-one revenue cycle management solution is designed to save providers time and money, and free doctors to deliver the best care for their patients. Our mission is to simplify insurance, and it's working: over 2,000 eye care professionals rely on Anagram to manage their insurance billing.
Founded in 2014, Anagram is the largest and fastest-growing insurance billing platform for eye care providers in America and processes hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
About the Role
This year, we are focused on building a consolidated insurance revenue cycle management platform that brings together disparate workflows into our single app. As a backend engineer, your mission will be to automate complex medical billing tasks. Medical billing is traditionally very manual, making the process costly and inaccurate. Your work will define new industry standards for speed and quality of medical billing.
Tech Stack
- Python, Django, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, nginx, GitHub Actions, Aptible
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Python
- Implement new features and enhancements that align with product requirements and technical roadmaps
- Optimize code for reliability, scalability, and performance
- Build and deploy Robotic Process Automations (RPAs) to streamline business workflows
- Maintain and update existing automations, ensuring minimal disruption to operations
- Write comprehensive unit tests to ensure code quality
- Participate in code reviews to maintain standards and share best practices
- Debug and troubleshoot production issues, delivering timely and effective fixes
- Work closely with frontend engineers, QA, and product managers to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Contribute to product planning and architecture discussions
- Champion best practices in version control, code reviews, documentation, and process optimization
Qualifications
- At least 4 years of proven experience as a backend engineer
- Expert knowledge of modern versions of Python
- Expert knowledge of databases and SQL
- Expert knowledge of web protocols and standards
- Prior experience of python frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, Pydantic
- Prior experience of ORM frameworks: Django ORM and SQLAlchemy
- Prior experience of task and messaging queues like RabbitMQ
- Prior experience of RPAs
- Prior experience of writing unit tests
- Understanding of agile methodologies
- Understanding of CI/CD principles and systems
- Patience and persistence in learning complex business domain that consists of entities that regular people never encounter in their life
- Availability online 14:00-16:30 UTC
Benefits
• Competitive salary in USD
• Work from anywhere, any tax jurisdiction
• Flexible work hours
• Unlimited PTO
• Macbook Pro