Backend Engineer Lead

About Element5

Element5 is on a mission to transform the way post-acute care organizations work. Using AI and RPA, we're automating complex and repetitive tasks, so teams can focus on better patient outcomes. In short, if post-acute teams are spending too much time on administrative work, Element5's digital assistants can take over for them.
We're fast-paced, supercharged, and moving at the speed of light. Our team is made of industry veterans who have built several successful products for healthcare and IT, and are now on the most meaningful mission of our lives. Collectively, we impact improvements in care quality for millions of patients by freeing up healthcare teams from burdens of compliance and regulations. Recently,Element5 raised $48.5 million in seed funding and operates with offices in San Jose, California and Chennai, India. Element5 is looking for Senior Platform Engineer with functional and technical capabilities to design automation solutions for post-acute care business workflows. The ideal candidate will bring proven experience in delivering software solutions, helping to lead projects from pre-sales estimation through to delivery and adoption. The right candidate comes with a passion to build world class products, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a drive to leave a mark in healthcare technology. If you are passionate about technology and architecture, love hands-on development and want to build scalable systems with an organization whose values and actions support your growth and guide your daily actions, we want to work with you.

What your role will look like

• Collaborate with Technical Architects to design frameworks and be responsible for development, creation, testing and documenting of systems as per business requirements and in accordance with agreed timelines and quality standards, and in conformance with development process and tools being used
• Design, coordinate and execute pilots, prototypes or proof of concepts to evaluate new technologies, tools and frameworks
• Work on PoCs and do innovations in deep tech.
• Define technical requirements (scalability, availability, maintenance, security) and drive the implementation
• Own the responsibility of Scaling, Performance and Quality for the team. Design & set up best practices to help the team achieve business outcomes
• Drive the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, and performance in teams
• Implement new features and enhancements to address issues in complex systems
• Lead and be the technical mentor to the team, drive technology, tool choices and be responsible for all of them
  

What is in it for you

• Put your name to a one-of-its kind product that is revolutionizing a niche segment in healthcare.
• Be a part of an aggressively growing organization with opportunities to learn new skills and sharpen existing ones
• Not just CRUD business applications. Work on challenging projects like a robust distributed platform to manage a self-healing swarm of bots on unreliable network/computers
• Work with completely data-driven Low-code platforms
• Work in a culture that truly believes every idea has merit in it, and bring your best innovation forward
• Work with a network of global teams and experienced leaders in healthcare
• Collaborate with and get mentored by some of the industry's best and brightest.
• Element5's team is built of radical individuals with armoires of achievements
• Build a truly scalable and secure SaaS product with bots and elegant architectural & design solutions
• Should have strong experience in decision making and stakeholder management with regard to Design/Technology Choices, Platform Standards
• Should have experience in providing direction and high-level architectural blueprints for Platform Development

  What we ask you to bring with you

• A passion for architecture and for developing robust, scalable software systems
• Ability to identify feasible alternatives and select optimal choice of

  data structures and advanced algorithms

• Proven experience in software development and coding in various languages (Java, J2EE etc.)
• Knowledge of workflow tools like Airflow, Temporal or similar
• Experience with Microservices and Cloud Native applications on AWS.
• Experience in designing and building large distributed systems and exposure to a variety of large scale persistent systems including large databases like MongoDB, ElasticSearch
• Experience on distributed cache like Redis
• Should have sound knowledge of Design patterns and SOLID Design Principles
• Experience implementing great development practices: unit testing, TDD, agile methodology
• Experience in any of the monitoring tools like Datadog or similar
• The ability to over communicate (along with excellent articulation skills)
• Enhanced curiosity & ability to geek out with new technologies. Always be thinking about newer ways to solve old problems
• DevOps knowledge and experience using Jenkins, Docker Kubernetes is a plus
• 8-13 years of overall experience with a proven track record as a Lead Software Engineer