Backend Developer

Contract Based
We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees are expected to be in office 3 days/week (Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesday).

About the Role:

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help lead Growth Data Platform initiatives for my client with at least 5+ years of relevant experience.

This person will work closely with MarTech, Growth Marketing, and Enrollment Marketing teams to design & develop at scale with quality & compliance.

We are looking for someone who both gets their hands dirty and has a track record of building production quality healthcare platform services on AWS and also a track record of automating AWS infrastructure & coaching teams to leverage AWS services in a cost effective way.

Staff software engineers collaborate with multiple pods in their neighborhood to tackle the hardest features in a sprint and deliver foundational architecture improvements in small, safe patches.

The ideal candidate thrives in a highly collaborative, cross functional environment.

We enjoy a continuous deployment DevOps culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production with an on-call rotation. Rotations vary by team.

Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, Typescript, NestJS, GraphQL, Docker, Rails, AWS, Postgres, Redis, and Redux. Our workflow is trunk-based CI/CD, and our security/compliance posture is at the highest standards of healthcare, including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and CCPA.

WHAT YOULL ACCOMPLISH

Streamline the CI/CD process for company applications
Lead the design and architecture of large-scale platform projects
Scope and schedule of platform projects are consistently accurate, due to rigorous de-risking and thoughtful planning
High and widespread confidence to make changes, based on alignment around well-defined principles (cf 12 factor) and clear visualizations (of both present and future states)
Achieve 99.99% uptime across several doublings of scale and tens of thousands of daily changes
Act as mentor and advisor to team members, along with making design decisions, overseeing the entire development process and putting in place the required governance model
Every day, youll work collaboratively with your teammates to support our mission
Every sprint, youll share your domain expertise with your teammates
Every month, youll tackle your teams hardest problems
Every quarter, youll identify, propose and execute a significant upgrade or innovative change to your teams workflow or tooling

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree or equivalent experience
Expertise with AWS ecosystem, and enabling teams to develop and deploy applications leveraging AWS services in cost effective ways with infrastructure automation & streamlined CI/CD. Expertise in building & deploying Kubernetes based software systems is a must
Hands-on web application development with expertise in handling large & complex client-server architectures
Expertise with Healthcare Data, and building healthcare compliant (HIPAA) services & data lakes with a focus on building platform services, data modeling, data integration, master and metadata management along with life cycle management
Distributed Architecture, with deep exposure to API design & versioning, domain-driven design, event-driven systems, and microservices
High Availability Systems, with strong point of view about telemetry, self-healing systems, buffers and queues, idempotency, disposability, and multi-tenancy
Problem Solving with ability to break down large scale projects into loosely coupled subsystems or strategically sequenced milestones. Designs cost-effective solutions, innovates with rapid spikes
Experience with Agile techniques and tooling for rapid prototyping and experimentation

BONUS POINTS
Experience with Iterable or other customer messaging/marketing platforms
Experience with technologies such as: Nestjs, Apache Kafka, BullMQ, Garden.io
Expertise in low-latency, highly resilient client-server architecture, including graceful degradation of features in low- or no-bandwidth modes
Expertise in React ecosystem, Node.js, Python.