Care Dynamics

Backend Software Engineer, San Francisco CA

Some fun facts about real-time data streaming:

🔊 Human feel: Sub-second latency keeps voice interactions natural and prevents awkward talk-over in live interviews.

🧭 Adaptive routing: Modern streaming stacks reroute around network hiccups so sessions stay smooth even when bandwidth dips.

🧰 Exactly-once magic: Idempotent writes and durable queues stop duplicate events from polluting analytics during spikes.

📡 Observability first: Per-stream metrics like jitter, packet loss, and lag reveal issues faster than aggregate dashboards.

Ready to apply your streaming chops to something users feel every minute?

What’s in it for you:

✅ Competitive pay: 160K to 220K base plus equity 0.1% to 0.3%

✅ High impact: Ship features that power live, AI-moderated interviews at scale

✅ Healthy pace: About 45 hours per week with real work-life balance

✅ Great benefits: Unlimited PTO, commuter benefits, comprehensive health, vision, dental, 401(k), home office stipend, good food when you work late

What you’ll be doing:

✅ Build and optimize backend services, APIs, and real-time processing pipelines

✅ Improve an in-house LLM and voice-to-voice interview tech

✅ Lead projects from idea to production with high ownership

✅ Talk to users, gather feedback, and iterate quickly for product fit

Where you’ll do it:

📍 Downtown San Francisco. Expect 80% in-office, ideally 100%, with flexibility for East Bay commuters and parents

📈 Team culture: high trust, kind, fast decisions, promotion from within

Must-haves:

🧩 3 to 10 years building production backends

🐍 Python, Django, SQL with Postgres, and deploying on AWS

💡 Comfort with ambiguity and taking the lead

Nice signals:

🚀 Experience with WebRTC or real-time streaming

🧪 Product engineering at early-stage startups

🏗️ Founder energy or standout personal projects

Hiring 4 to 6 engineers now. Message Jen Lee-Tech Talent Connector for a quick chat and an intro.

Apply Here: https://f2bu.short.gy/HsvHWP

Backend Engineer (San Francisco, CA) Software Engineer (Backend)About the JobThis role is designed for an experienced backend engineer...

Labor Day is often treated as the end of summer, but its history is rooted in conflict and change.

The first Labor Day parade took place in New York City in 1882, when about 10,000 workers marched for fair pay and safer conditions.

By 1894, following the unrest of the Pullman Strike, Congress recognized the holiday at the federal level.

The choice of September was intentional.

It provided good weather for families and avoided the political overtones of May Day.

The protections that followed are now taken for granted.

The eight-hour day, the 40-hour work week, overtime rules, safer workplaces, and eventually the two-day weekend were all hard-won outcomes of collective pressure.

Healthcare workers played their own part.

Union 1199, now one of the most influential voices in healthcare labor, began in 1932 with pharmacy and drugstore employees in New York.

At Care Dynamics, we view labor as legacy.

The pharmacists, technologists, and healthcare professionals we serve do more than fill roles.

They hold together systems, strengthen communities, and create the conditions for progress.

This holiday is a reminder that today’s stability was built on yesterday’s struggle.

It is also a reminder that every advance in the workplace begins with people willing to insist on better.