Staff Software Engineer, Distribution
We are hiring an experienced engineer to join our new Distribution Engineering team. This team will be focused on building new distribution channels for Ribbon’s data through existing healthcare platforms and launching new platforms to more seamlessly serve our customers’ use cases.
There are countless decisions and transactions that occur everyday across our healthcare industry to provide and pay for patient care. This team is responsible for ensuring that Ribbon is powering as many workflows as possible with its best-in-class data to drive high-quality outcomes for patients.
Functionally, this engineering team will be responsible for Ribbon’s expansion into full stack applications and platform integrations. This team will work across the entire stack and collaborate with Ribbon’s API Platform and Data Engineering teams to architect and build new products.
We are looking for a player-coach with a diverse technical skillset who is excited about discovering, launching, and iterating products in the 0-1 stage.
.- Passion and drive to simplify healthcare by building products that increase access to care and power every healthcare decision to be high-quality, cost-effective, and convenient
- Commitment to Ribbon Health company values, working on an exceptional team, and building an exceptional company
- Grit, hustle, desire, and a “get-it-done” attitude; strong comfort with a lean startup environment, where everyone is encouraged to participate in and contribute across all teams
- Dedication to the creation of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where teammates are celebrated for their unique perspectives and work together to simplify healthcare for all
- Experience in leading a team of frontend and backend engineers
- Experience working across the full stack, from user experience, to API design, to infrastructure
- Expertise in designing scalable architecture for full stack applications
- Ability to collaborate with designers, product managers, and other cross-functional team members
- Desire to mentor, support, and develop engineers
- Desire to work closely with our customers to deeply understand their workflows and business needs
- Experience at a scaling startup and an understanding of tradeoffs between short-term and long-term approaches
- Bonuses:
- Experience building applications for EHRs or platforms
- Strong understanding of data modeling
- Lead Ribbon’s first fullstack engineering team: You will set the standard for how Ribbon discovers, architects, and builds applications.
- Develop, train, and mentor engineers: As a player coach, you will lead engineers by both example and direct mentorship.
- Explore and troubleshoot technical gaps: You will keep a critical eye on our technical strategy, identify gaps, and come up with creative solutions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: You will be the technical representative for the Distribution team, and will work cross-functionally across the org to achieve the company’s overall objectives and vision.
How we live out our values for our teammates
Our goal is to make this the best career decision any of us have ever made. We stand by our values to make it happen.
Run Toward Hard Problems | We are motivated by the toughest challenges. We seek out hard problems that have the most impact and solve them to help those who need it most. We encourage our teammates to take ownership of outcomes that motivate them. Everyone at Ribbon has a say in our objective and key result (OKR) planning process for their teams and across teams.
Put Your Team First | We are a family. We are all happier and healthier when we take care of each other and put each other’s needs ahead of our own. We take care of you by offering fully covered insurance premiums on health, vision, and dental, a 401K plan match, and a flexible working policy that includes progressive family leave guidelines, flexible working schedules, and unlimited vacation.
Do What You Say | We are honest with each other. We are accountable to each other. When we commit to accomplishing our goals, we make it happen. Every team member has the opportunity to own high-impact work at Ribbon.
Stay Hungry, Keep Improving | We are humble. We will make mistakes, learn from those mistakes, and be better because of those mistakes. Here, feedback is a gift and mistakes are learning opportunities. We have a thoughtful culture that focuses on giving and receiving regular positive and constructive feedback to help us support each other and make each other better. Also, speaking of “hungry” we offer plenty of snacks, food, and coffee.
Practice Habits of Excellence | We measure our success by the process it took to get there. We will always do our very best and we are proud of the outcome because of it. At Ribbon, we focus on how we get things done by documenting and sharing our learnings, We are building the systems we need to scale our company and support our work for the long-term.
Build With Empathy | We are building the best healthcare experience for our users. When faced with a difficult decision, we do what’s best for people’s lives. This includes our team. Every Ribbon teammate shares working and lifestyle norms, and we hold each other accountable to respecting these norms so each person can balance work-life integration that works for them.
Ribbon Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on any basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, performance, and business need. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]
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