Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vero is a fast-scaling healthcare technology company focused on improving healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. They are seeking a Principal backend/platform engineer to lead the evolution of a critical identity and access management platform, ensuring secure and scalable access across multiple products and services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the modernisation and evolution of the company’s identity and access management platform
• Own authentication, authorization, SSO, and secure access infrastructure across multiple products
• Design and scale secure backend services and distributed systems in a cloud-native environment
• Drive reliability, observability, monitoring, and rollout best practices across critical platform services
• Partner closely with Product, Security, SRE, and Engineering leadership on platform strategy and execution
• Help define engineering standards, architecture direction, and long-term platform scalability
• Mentor engineers and bring clarity to complex technical and operational challenges
• Contribute to the adoption and evolution of AI-assisted engineering workflows across the organisation

Skills

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong backend and distributed systems expertise
• Deep experience building identity and access management systems (OAuth2, SAML, JWT, SSO)
• Strong hands-on experience with TypeScript, Node.js/NestJS, and modern cloud infrastructure
• Expertise across AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code practices (Terraform preferred)
• Experience designing highly scalable, resilient, production-grade systems
• Strong architectural reasoning and ability to own systems end-to-end
• Comfortable operating across cross-functional teams including Product, Security, and SRE
• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools and workflows within engineering environments
• Experience modernising platform or security-critical systems
• Exposure to event-driven architecture and messaging systems
• Healthcare, fintech, or other regulated industry experience
• Polyglot engineering background (Go, Python, Java, etc.)
• Experience building internal developer platforms, tooling, or AI-native engineering workflows

Benefits

• Remote-first environment with strong flexibility
• Up to 150k Bonus + meaningful equity

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