Ōura
Wearable Technology
SeniorBackendEngineer(Python)
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“Senior Backend Engineer (Python) at Ōura. Skills: Python, Backend development, AWS, Scalable architecture. Own high quality solutions from design to production. Shape best practices across engineering lifecycle”
Industry & Context.
Proactively tackle ambiguous problems; Reducing their complexity into clear, simple, and actionable solutions
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of practical backend development work experience with Python, Architected, built, and deployed scalable, performant, and highly available web services in production on AWS or similar platforms, Apply architectural patterns and best practices to new and existing products, Write code that is highly maintainable, extensible, well-tested, and easy-to-understand, Affinity for automating busywork and diving into the details to fix problems at the root, Pragmatic entrepreneurial attitude and delivery-focused mindset, Solid computer science fundamentals, Design patterns
Nice to Have
Experience with Python web server frameworks, such as FastAPI, Experience working within a regulated environment, PCI DSS compliance, Data labeling and curation workflows for multimodal or unstructured datasets, Dataset generation for model training, Cross-functional collaboration with Science and Research teams to define data schemas and label taxonomies, Development of E2E ML training pipelines, Supporting internal and external security and regulatory audits, Deploying infrastructure to different environments, Building efficient, scalable database schemas, Query optimization, Working asynchronously across time zones
What You'll Do.
Own high quality solutions from design to production
Shape best practices across engineering lifecycle
Tackle ambiguous problems
Reduce complexity into actionable solutions
Ensure solutions meet security
and regulatory standards
Drive architectural improvements to scale platform
Evolve infrastructure
Support new product capabilities
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team
Full Job Description
Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. Our engineering organization consists of many talented developers distributed across the EU and US. For day-to-day feature work, our engineers are organized into smaller cross-functional feature squads or teams. Our squads have a great deal of autonomy and are responsible for the development and architecture of their features. Squads take full ownership of their code and handle everything from concepting, design and implementation to release, maintenance and bug fixes. This is a remote US role with a preference for candidates based in the US-Pacific timezone. We have offices in San Francisco and San Diego for those who prefer hybrid or office settings. We also have employee hubs in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, and more. We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Backend Engineer to join one of our growing teams. There are several roles available covering different feature areas, from enabling new hardware capabilities and interaction modes to building multimodal data labeling and model training pipelines to drive personalized guidance. This is an opportunity to be part of teams that are at the forefront of wearable technology, innovating and defining the future of Oura’s products. What you will do: Own high quality solutions from design to production, including testing, monitoring, and documentat
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