Backend Software Engineer

Company: Medely
Location: Santa Monica
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

THE OPPORTUNITY: BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER

As a key member of the engineering team and reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will cross-functionality collaborate with teams to ensure end-to-end strategy and execution. We are looking for an engineer who’s passionate about product craftsmanship and cares about great design.

What you will do:

Develop high-performing, scalable, and available backend infrastructure

Contribute to and continually improve our site architecture, feature components, development process, and SDLC tools, and system design

Translate product requirements and technical designs into well-engineered, low-defect, robust code

Research new technologies or methodologies that can improve the architecture, user experience, or development process

Participate in code reviews, listening to feedback while sharing your knowledge with other members of the team

Collaborate with product, sales, customer-support, and other departments to implement new growth initiatives

Identify performance bottlenecks while proposing and implementing effective solutions

THE RIGHT CANDIDATE: QUALIFICATIONS & PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Required Qualifications:

Education: BS/BA in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience

Experience: 5+ years of software development experience, 2+ years of Ruby and Rails

Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and their practical applications

Experience with backend services or distributed systems, with strong understanding of how backend code affects the database layer

Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and be willing to roll up your sleeves and execute!

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge of other OO programming languages and familiarity with tools like PostgreSQL and Redis

Exposure to Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with APIs (REST and GraphQL)

WHY MEDELY: BENEFITS & PERKS

Competitive Compensation : Based on experience and performance

Healthcare Benefits : Full suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision insurance, and 401k

Flexibility : We believe that work/life balance is important, so we offer three weeks of vacation on top of ten paid holidays

Energetic team environment: The tight-knit Medely team can often be found together at bi-weekly team meetings, weekly lunches, and community hangouts

Purpose : Join a growing mission-oriented startup that is modernizing the healthcare industry on a national scale!

Ownership: Drive meaningful business impact through the build of exceptional products

ABOUT MEDELY

Medely connects medical facilities with top-quality, pre-screened independent healthcare professionals. The Medely team believes that empowering healthcare professionals will bring more open, efficient, and increasingly higher quality to patient care. We are a team of sharp, entrepreneurial individuals who are redefining the way healthcare staffing is done. We are currently looking for candidates to join our growing team who share our enthusiasm for tackling today’s toughest challenges in healthcare.

We're an equal opportunity employer to all. We interview and hire applicants of all backgrounds, orientations, expressions, and identities

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