Job description
<div class="content-intro"><p>Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles.</p> <p>Empowering the world starts with living <a href="https://ouraring.com/about-us">our values</a> and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. </p></div><p>Our engineering organization consists of many talented developers distributed across the EU and US. For day-to-day feature work, our engineers are organized into smaller cross-functional feature squads or teams. Our squads have a great deal of autonomy and are responsible for the development and architecture of their features. Squads take full ownership of their code and handle everything from concepting, design and implementation to release, maintenance and bug fixes.</p> <p>This is a remote US role with a preference for candidates based in the US-Pacific timezone. We have offices in San Francisco and San Diego for those who prefer hybrid or office settings. We also have employee hubs in New York City, Boston, Los Angeles
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Daniel is a strong fit for a Senior Backend Engineer (Python) role: he builds and maintains scalable Python backend services, REST APIs, and automation on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) with a strong CI/CD and test-coverage discipline, all in a regulated medical-device context where reliability is non-negotiable — directly relevant to Oura's health products. The main gap is that his squad-ownership experience is largely in medical-device/test-automation settings rather than consumer app backends at scale, and much of his end-to-end web product shipping is independent project work rather than team-based production ownership.
Tailored resume highlights
- Build and operate scalable Python backend services and APIs on AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) for connected devices, owning reliable data delivery and system performance end-to-end.
- Develop Python automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins), enabling reproducible deployments and faster feature delivery while raising test reliability.
- Take full ownership of debugging complex, cross-team issues — leading root-cause analysis and reproducing rare field defects in-house to drive resolution across squads.
- Ship live, public full-stack Python/Flask services on self-hosted Linux (gunicorn, hardened endpoints, per-IP rate limiting, cron data pipelines, self-healing watchdogs), going from idea to monitored production in days.
- Deliver software in a safety-critical, regulated medical-device environment where reliability, correctness, and test coverage are hard requirements, not optional features.
"Why this company?" (draft — personalize before sending)
Oura turns personal health data into daily insight, and that lands squarely on my background. At Medtronic I build backend services for connected medical devices where reliable data delivery and correctness are strict requirements, so I take health-data reliability seriously rather than treating it as a feature. Your squads owning features end-to-end also matches how I actually work — outside my day job I ship and operate production Python/Flask services on my own infrastructure, from API to monitoring. Doing that kind of full-ownership backend work on a health product people trust daily is genuinely what I want.
Cover letter (review before sending)
Dear Oura Team,
I'm applying for your Senior Backend Engineer (Python) role because building reliable backend services for health products is exactly the work I do. At Medtronic I design and maintain scalable Python backend services, REST APIs, and AWS-based data processing (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB) for connected medical devices, where correctness and reliable data delivery are strict requirements. I build Python automation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines, lead root-cause analysis of complex cross-team defects, and mentor other engineers — the kind of full ownership your autonomous squads take from concept through maintenance.
Outside of work, I ship production full-stack Python/Flask services end-to-end on my own infrastructure, handling everything from hardened endpoints and rate limiting to cron data pipelines and self-healing monitoring. I move quickly from idea to a live, monitored service without sacrificing reliability.
Oura's mission of turning health data into daily insight lines up with both my regulated-device background and how I like to build. I'd welcome the chance to contribute.
Sincerely,
Daniel Maynard
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Python backend developmentdistributed teams / remotefeature ownershipAPI designscalable systemsrelease and maintenancecross-functional collaborationcloud infrastructure
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