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 ACCOMPLISHStreamline the CI/CD process for company applicationsLead the design and architecture of large-scale platform projectsScope and schedule of platform projects are consistently accurate, due to rigorous de-risking and thoughtful planningHigh 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 changesAct as mentor and advisor to team members, along with making design decisions, overseeing the entire development process and putting in place the required governance modelEvery day, youll work collaboratively with your teammates to support our missionEvery sprint, youll share your domain expertise with your teammatesEvery month, youll tackle your teams hardest problemsEvery quarter, youll identify, propose and execute a significant upgrade or innovative change to your teams workflow or toolingWHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOREducation: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree or equivalent experienceExpertise 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 mustHands-on web application development with expertise in handling large & complex client-server architecturesExpertise 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 managementDistributed Architecture, with deep exposure to API design & versioning, domain-driven design, event-driven systems, and microservicesHigh Availability Systems, with strong point of view about telemetry, self-healing systems, buffers and queues, idempotency, disposability, and multi-tenancyProblem Solving with ability to break down large scale projects into loosely coupled subsystems or strategically sequenced milestones. Designs cost-effective solutions, innovates with rapid spikesExperience with Agile techniques and tooling for rapid prototyping and experimentationBONUS POINTSExperience with Iterable or other customer messaging/marketing platformsExperience with technologies such as: Nestjs, Apache Kafka, BullMQ, Garden.ioExpertise in low-latency, highly resilient client-server architecture, including graceful degradation of features in low- or no-bandwidth modesExpertise in React ecosystem, Node.js, Python.