Junior Backend Engineer

About Bask Health

Bask Health is a software platform that enables entrepreneurs, doctors, and healthcare businesses to launch, manage, and grow direct-to-consumer telehealth businesses.

Our platform brings together patient experiences, clinical workflows, pharmacy operations, and commerce tools in one place.

We're an entrepreneurial, product-focused engineering team that values ownership, technical excellence, and building software that solves real problems. Engineers work closely with product teams and company leadership, take features from idea to production, and have a direct role in shaping the platform.

Engineering at Bask is AI-first and builder-led. We use tools like Cursor and Claude Code throughout development while maintaining high standards for reliability, testing, and software quality.

About the Role

We're looking for a Junior Backend Engineer to join Bask Health's engineering team and help build, maintain, and improve the backend systems powering our telehealth platform.

You'll work on APIs, databases, application logic, and backend services supporting patient experiences, clinical workflows, pharmacy operations, and merchant-facing tools.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with a foundation in backend development who wants to strengthen their technical skills while contributing to real production software.

Our platform uses TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, SST, and SQL databases, with technologies such as tRPC, Prisma, and Drizzle across our engineering stack.

You'll work alongside experienced engineers, participate in code reviews, and gradually take ownership of increasingly complex features.

We're looking for someone who enjoys building software, learns quickly, asks thoughtful questions, and takes pride in writing clean, reliable code.

You don't need extensive professional experience or a background in healthcare. We care about your ability to write code, solve problems, understand how backend systems work, and continue developing your skills.

What You'll Do

• Build, test, and maintain backend features supporting Bask's telehealth platform.
• Develop APIs, backend services, and application logic using TypeScript and Node.js.
• Work with SQL databases to retrieve, update, and organize application data.
• Help implement functionality supporting patient records, clinical workflows, pharmacy operations, and merchant tools.
• Build and maintain integrations between internal services and third-party APIs.
• Work with senior engineers to understand technical requirements and implement backend solutions.
• Learn and contribute to serverless applications built using AWS and SST.
• Assist with background jobs, asynchronous processing, and event-driven workflows.
• Write clean, readable, maintainable code that follows established engineering practices.
• Create automated tests to verify backend functionality and help prevent regressions.
• Debug application issues, investigate errors, and contribute to resolving production problems.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback from other engineers.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure APIs and backend services support product requirements.
• Work with product managers and engineers to break requirements into manageable development tasks.
• Help maintain database schemas, application models, and API documentation.
• Follow appropriate security practices when working with sensitive patient and customer information.
• Use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor and Claude Code to support coding, debugging, testing, and learning while validating generated code.
• Assist with monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting backend services.
• Contribute to improving existing code, reducing technical debt, and simplifying development workflows.
• Take ownership of smaller features from implementation through testing and deployment.
• Learn how to evaluate technical tradeoffs and make sound engineering decisions.
• Participate in team discussions, share ideas, and ask questions when requirements are unclear.
• Continue developing your understanding of backend architecture, cloud infrastructure, databases, and production software systems.