Sr Backend Engineer
Company Description
At Amwell, we’re transforming healthcare for all—powered by technology and inspired by people. Here, your ideas don’t just matter—they drive real change, improving lives on a global scale.
We marry technology and innovation with clinical excellence to provide trusted solutions that solve the healthcare industry’s biggest pain points and are on a mission to enable greater access to more convenient, affordable, and effective care.
We do this through our technology-enabled care platform that is designed to help our clients achieve their digital care ambitions – today and in the future. We offer programs spanning the full care continuum, including urgent, acute and specialty care, behavioral health, and services for the treatment of chronic conditions such as heart and cardiometabolic diseases. Programs are powered by Amwell as well as our growing partner network.
For almost two decades, Amwell has proudly served some of the largest and most sophisticated healthcare organizations in the U.S. and worldwide. Our team is passionate about technology’s role in transforming care delivery and making it more equitable, accessible, efficient, cost-effective and navigable for all.
Brief Overview
We’re seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with strong backend expertise and growing full-stack capabilities to join our engineering organization. This role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining critical services within Amwell’s Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) solution suite.
The ideal candidate has deep experience building scalable microservices, strong cloud knowledge, and a passion for delivering reliable, high-quality systems. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to support key financial workflows while contributing to innovation initiatives across the engineering organization.
Core Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services within a microservices architecture.
- Build and support core RCM platform services, including payment, eligibility, cost, and discount services.
- Develop high-performance, reliable APIs and ensure system scalability and resilience.
- Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to backend system design decisions.
- Support integration between backend services and frontend applications.
- Contribute to full-stack initiatives, including Angular upgrades and UI auditing features such as RTE calculation workflows.
- Troubleshoot production issues and optimize system performance.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code following best practices.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver technical solutions aligned with business needs.
- Contribute to innovation initiatives, including participation in engineering AI programs and committees.
Qualifications
- Strong experience with backend development using Java and Spring Boot.
- Experience building and maintaining microservices architectures.
- Proficiency with TypeScript and modern backend development practices.
- Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Hands-on experience deploying and supporting applications in AWS environments.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
Do Well. Live Well. At Amwell.
Driven by our mission and values, we foster a workplace where Delivering Awesome, being Customer First and operating as One Team aren’t just aspirations – they are how we work, every day.
Our people are our greatest asset. We strive to empower their growth and development not only as Amwellians but as individuals, through generous total rewards packages, a virtual-first work environment, work-life flexibility, including Summer Fridays and designated Mental Health Days, as well as opportunities to stretch and learn – to name a few. It’s our people who truly differentiate us. Ask anyone and they’ll tell you – you’ll never work with more passionate, more driven and more caring team members.
We champion a culture of respect and inclusion, accountability and integrity, innovation and collaboration. At Amwell, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career—improving healthcare for millions, growing alongside incredible teammates, and being valued for who you are.
Working at Amwell:
Amwell is changing how care is delivered through online and mobile technology. We strive to make the hard work of healthcare look easy. In order to make this a reality, we look for people with a fast-paced, mission-driven mentality. We’re a culture that prides itself on quality, efficiency, smarts, initiative, creative thinking, and a strong work ethic.
Our Core Values include One Team, Customer First, and Deliver Awesome. Customer First and Deliver Awesome are all about our product and services and how we strive to serve. As part of One Team, we operate the Amwell Cares program, which brings needed assistance to our communities, whether that be free healthcare for the underserved or for people affected by natural disasters, support for equality, honoring doctors and nurses, or annual Amwell-matched donations to food banks. Amwell aims to be a force for good for our employees, our clients, and our communities.
Amwell cares deeply about and supports Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. These initiatives are highlighted and reflected within our Three DE&I Pillars - our Workplace, our Workforce and our Community!
Benefits
Additional Benefits
- Medical Plan Coverage provided by Colmédica
- Plan Coverage provided by Pan American
- Hybrid Allowance
- Additional Paid Time Off
- Maternity Leave 18 weeks
- Parental/Paternity Leave 2 mandatory weeks + 4 weeks
- Mental Health and Resiliency
- Virtual Second Opinion with the Cleveland Clinic Coverage
- LinkedIn Learning
- Rewards and Recognition
- Service Anniversaries
- Annual Bonus
- Referral Program
- Amwell tuition reimbursement benefit
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