Senior Backend Software Engineer- REMOTE

Los Angeles, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

HERS Advisors is seeking a strong backend software engineer to join their growing team. Our client is changing the way we interact with our healthcare and seeking the best developers. If you are interested in hearing more lets connect.

SUMMARY

We are looking for a talented experienced backend developer to join our fast-paced growing engineering department. This developer will primarily be working with . As a Senior Backend Engineer at our client you will work under the guidance of our Engineering Director in either a dedicated backend team or in a cross functional team of backend and frontend engineers.

You will work with the rest of the team to maintain and grow features in the backend code base. This will include supporting web facing APIs writing SQL queries automating interactions with partner APIs and enhancing the core infrastructure that underlies our scheduled and realtime patient-provider communications capability.

As a senior developer you will bring strong expertise in high throughput highly available backend architecture and a demonstrated commitment to training and technical mentoring of less experienced team members.

In addition to being a strong developer you will have a keen interest in how software and modern communication channels can improve the patient experience. You will also have the attention to detail and quality needed to meet high Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in a product that serves roughly 30 million patients annually. You will also be flexible and adaptable enough to thrive in a fluid startup environment.

Our Stack: Node Typescript Express Nest Postgres Mongo AWS Hasura React and Redux

RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintain existing and build new backend services using Typescript on open source technology and tools including NestJS and Express.
As an experienced engineer you will help the team adhere to software best practices level up others in your areas of expertise and contribute to the architecture of our ongoing refactor project.
Collaborate with the product team in an agile environment to break down requirements plan and estimate tasks.
Drive quality by writing effective unit integration and e2e tests for high availability systems and libraries.
Create high availability and high throughput systems using Redis Postgres Kinesis S3 MongoDB EventBridge and other AWS services.
Effectively collaborate with Product QA UX Client Success and other internal groups (both technical and non-technical).
Opportunity to work with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and front end (React) if desired.

REQUIREMENTS

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
5 years designing and implementing backend services and distributed systems in a professional environment
Strong grasp of Javascript/ES fundamentals Typescript or strong experience in another modern OO language
High level of proficiency in SQL (PostgreSQL) database design including query optimization
Experienced working with asynchronous requests in large scale applications
Commitment to testing best practices

BONUS

Collaboration/contributions with the open source community
Strong leadership skills
Experience with:
- Python
- Docker
- Terraform
- AWS
- Event sourced and microservice architecture
- Domain Driven Design

WORKING

Fantastic company culture frequent Zoom company events (Lunch & Learns trivia yoga etc.) and daily fun brought to you by many creative Slack channels.
Employee equity groups 11 groups available for all to join. Black & Latinx Women LGBTQ Disability and many more!
Learning and development frequent events and tools available to help our employees #PursueGrowth.
Career mobility we promote from within and have opportunities for employees to transfer between teams.
Company perks and benefits MacBook Pro provided unlimited PTO generous equity package and full health benefits (medical dental and vision).

Required Experience:

Senior IC