Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Patient Identity & Privacy

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain privacy-first data systems, ensuring compliance with state and federal consumer privacy regulations.
• Develop and integrate consent and preference management systems, enabling patients to control their data usage across Ro's platform.
• Design and implement high-throughput, scalable, event-driven architectures for the privacy-compliant collection, processing, and distribution of first-party data.
• Partner with marketing and growth teams to support digital advertising, CRM, and marketing analytics, while ensuring compliance and data security.
• Implement privacy-preserving techniques, such as data anonymization, tokenization, and minimization, to reduce risk while maintaining business utility.
• Work on event tracking and analytics pipelines, ensuring accurate and privacy-compliant data flows to third-party platforms (e.g., Braze, Google, Meta, Segment).
• Collaborate with security and legal teams to enforce data governance, retention, and compliance policies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on data privacy, security, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience building scalable web applications.
• Experience with privacy-focused data engineering, including data minimization, anonymization, and access controls.
• Understanding of first-party data systems, event pipelines, and customer data platforms (CDP).
• Experience integrating CRM and marketing automation tools (e.g., Braze, Iterable, Twilio, Klaviyo, Customer.io).
• Familiarity with advertising attribution channels, server-side tracking, and adtech integrations.
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, fintech), where compliance and security are key factors.
• Strong sense of ownership, ability to navigate ambiguity, and drive technical initiatives to completion.

Nice to Have

• Experience working alongside IAM engineers on broader data security initiatives.
• Knowledge of healthcare or fintech industry compliance and security standards.

Qualifications

• Educational background or certifications are not explicitly specified in the description.

Benefits & Perks

• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance + OneMedical membership.
• Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible PTO.
• Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements.
• Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits.
• Pet insurance.
• Student loan refinancing.
• Virtual resources for mindfulness, counseling, and fitness.