Software Engineer

Valeo Health · Bengaluru, India · On-site (Work from Office) · Full-Time · 2–3 years

Reports to: Engineering Manager (Backend) / Head of Engineering

Java + microservices — a senior individual-contributor role with mentorship responsibility.

About Valeo Health

Valeo Health is a preventive healthcare and wellness platform operating across Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). We offer diagnostics, teleconsultation, AI-driven health insights, supplements, and care programs. We build AI-first, compliant, and scalable healthcare platforms that handle sensitive health data while delivering reliable, high-quality customer experiences across geographies.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Developer with deep experience in Java and microservices to build, scale, and operate the backend systems that power Valeo’s healthcare platform across KSA and UAE. You’ll own services end-to-end — design, build, ship, operate — while mentoring junior engineers and raising the technical bar of the team.

This is a senior individual-contributor role focused on technical depth. You’ll spend most of your time writing code, designing systems, and reviewing your peers’ work. You won’t manage people, but you will mentor 2–3 junior engineers, drive technical standards, and be the senior voice in architecture decisions for your area. It’s the right role if you want to grow as an engineer rather than into management.

The Mindset We Hire For

These three traits matter more than any specific framework on your CV. If they don’t describe you, this isn’t the right role.

• Ownership — You don’t wait for permission. When a service you own breaks, you fix it. When a junior engineer is stuck, you pair with them. When the design is unclear, you write it down.
• Deliver results — You measure yourself in services shipped and reliability improved, not PRs merged. You can tell us what you built last quarter, what changed for users or the business because of it, and what you’d do differently.
• Quick to learn — You taught yourself something significant in the last three months and can describe it without preparation — a new framework, architecture pattern, or operational tool.

Key Responsibilities

Technical ownership

• Design, build, and operate Java-based microservices that handle sensitive healthcare data at scale.
• Own technical design for services in your area — write design docs, lead design reviews, make architecture tradeoffs.
• Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Debug production issues across services; own root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Drive performance, reliability, and cost improvements in owned services.

Mentorship

• Mentor 2–3 junior backend engineers through pairing, code reviews, and design reviews.
• Run technical brown-bags and learning sessions for the backend team — share patterns, post-mortem learnings, and new tools.
• Help juniors grow toward SDE II and Senior Engineer levels — identify stretch projects and give structured feedback.
• Be the first technical escalation point in your area for less senior engineers.

Collaboration

• Partner with frontend and mobile engineers on API design and contracts.
• Work with Product Managers on solution design and technical tradeoffs.
• Work with DevOps/SRE on infrastructure, deployment, and incident response.
• Participate in hiring — review resumes, conduct technical interviews, and calibrate signal.

Security & compliance

• Ensure code and design decisions meet HIPAA, UAE PDPL, and KSA PDPL requirements for healthcare data handling.
• Implement secure patterns for PII/PHI: encryption at rest and in transit, audit trails, and access controls.
• Maintain documentation needed for security audits and reviews.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 2–3 years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong focus on backend systems.
• 2+ years building production systems in Java (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, or similar frameworks).
• Direct experience designing and operating microservices in production — not just consuming them.
• Demonstrated mentorship experience — you’ve meaningfully grown more junior engineers, formally or informally.
• Startup experience is a plus — comfort with ambiguity, speed of decision-making, and wearing multiple hats.
• Exposure to healthcare, fintech, or other regulated, high-trust domains is a …