Senior Backend Engineer
Redesign Health is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer – we recruit, train, compensate and promote our team members based on qualifications. We know how important it is not only to include, but to actively seek out a diversity of opinions and voices.
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Redesign Health is a healthcare innovation platform. We bring together entrepreneurs, industry experts, and investors to elevate healthcare companies that empower people to live their healthiest lives. Our first companies include Lively, Ever/Body, Vault Health, Springtide, HealthQuarters, Calibrate, Proper, and stealth ventures in payment integrity, elder care, and complex care. We’re capitalized with permanent capital from world-class institutional investors and entrepreneurs.
We are launching a stealth venture in the mental health space, with the mission to provide access to affordable and high quality mental health services for all patients.
As one of the first members of our Upstairs engineering team, come lay the foundation for our consumer and healthcare provider interfaces, helping to bring a better mental health experience to all patients. As our founding backend engineer, you’ll help set the systems, architecture, and process for our engineering team. A unique opportunity to lay the groundwork for everything from the API to CI!
You will report to and work with the Head of Product remotely, as you will be one of the first team members of our team. You will also partner closely with our frontend engineer to develop our API layer and institutional best practices.
What you'll do:
- Provide innovative solutions leveraging modern web tools and techniques enhancing our platform capabilities by making key technical decisions, improving and adapting our development process, and making overall architecture recommendations to support a rapidly increasing org.
- Implement established software development best practices by developing, refining, iterating, integrating, testing, staging, and deploying maintainable technical solutions.
- Use technical analytical skills, from load balancing API endpoints to database query performance, and judgment to solve problems and make decisions in a rapidly changing environment.
- Communicate engineering risks and challenges to non-technical team members to ensure we are coming up with the right solutions.
- Ensure all code is version controlled according to industry standards and best practices.
- Remain current on knowledge and skills necessary for software development, including programming tools, development techniques, and related technologies.
- Create design documents that satisfy business requirements, follow adopted methodologies and lead to efficient, easy to maintain, and reliable systems
What you'll need:
- Background
- 5-8 years of experience building and deploying consumer or large scale SaaS web products in an agile product environment
- BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical discipline
- Technical Skills
- Experience leveraging cloud technologies (AWS), Relational Database (Postgres, MySQL) and DevOps services (AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD) to build your products
- Experience with automated testing and quality assurance, with an eye to API performance (Flood.io, Artillery, Datadog)
- Demonstrable experience designing and building and deploying RESTful APIs for consumption (Node.js, Java or Python); code samples and/or active GitHub repositories available for review
- Understanding of security in a highly regulated environment (healthcare, finance) with attention to HIPAA or SOC2 compliance
- Behavioral Skills
- Action Oriented - Readily takes action on challenges, without unnecessary planning; taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm
- Communicates Effectively - Is effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels. Attentively listens to others. Adjusts to fit the audience and the message. Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Manages Ambiguity - Deals comfortably with the uncertainty of change. Can decide and act without having the total picture. Is calm, and productive, even when things are up in the air. Operating effectively, even when things are not certain of the way forward is unclear.
- Manages Complexity - Uncovers root causes to difficult problems. Evaluates pros and cons, risks and benefits of different solution options. Making sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to solve problems
What Redesign is all about
Redesign’s mission is to elevate healthcare companies that empower people to live their healthiest lives. To give a sense of what our team is all about, these are the values that guide our work:
- Redesign healthcare - We bring positive change to patients’ lives
- Own the outcome - We do the work to get the job done
- Be trusted partners - We strive to be the teammates and co-founders of choice
- Champion diverse perspectives - We work to unlock our joint potential
- Practice kindness - We aim to build bridges, not walls
- Learn continuously - We focus on constantly growing as individuals and as a team