Backend Engineer

Overview

Join VOY as a Backend Engineer to help build scalable, reliable systems powering a patient-focused health platform. You will develop core functionality for customer-facing and internal products, while enabling rapid product launches through extensible architectures. You’ll own end-to-end delivery—from scoping to production — and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive impact at scale. This hybrid role combines hands-on engineering with a fast-paced startup culture that values ownership and continuous learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable and reliable backend systems for customer-facing and internal products
• Build APIs powering web and mobile platforms
• Create extensible architectures to enable rapid new product launches
• Integrate with third-party systems and data platforms
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, QA, product managers and domain experts
• Own end-to-end delivery from scoping and design to deployment and operations

• Experience building web backends in Node.js/Typescript or willingness to learn on the job
• Familiarity with scalable cloud architectures, design patterns and best practices
• Practical experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Experience with relational databases and search engines
• Experience with TDD and testable code (unit/integration/performance)
• Strong communication skills to explain complex ideas to non-engineers
• Ability to balance low-level detail with big-picture tradeoffs
• Hybrid role requiring in-office presence 3 days per week

• strong ownership mindset
• clear communication
• cross-functional collaboration
• Node.js
• Typescript
• cloud architectures