closed vacancySr. Software Engineer (HealthTech) - remote

LOCATION:     Santa Monica, CA
TITLE:         Sr. Software Engineer (Systems Development)
REPORTS TO:   Director, Platform Engineering

As a Platform Engineer you’ll be responsible for leading the architecture and implementation of new features and capabilities for our highly-scalable, secure communication platform impacting the lives of doctors, nurses and patients. The successful candidate is an accomplished, hands-on platform engineer with multiple large-scale, distributed services under their belt and has a passion for solving challenging problems and building distributed, mission-critical systems.

What You'll Own:

• Own the end-to-end architecture for our secure communication platform
• Deliver ongoing feature and performance improvements for the leading healthcare communication infrastructure
• Work closely with the client and product teams to refine requirements for technical implementation
• Provide technology leadership to ensure the architecture of a robust, scalable, secure product platform
• Deliver innovative technology solutions that enable new product features and ongoing performance improvements
• Work with the quality assurance team to ensure automated testing and verification of platform updates
• Collaborate with the Data Engineering team to ensure all system metrics are measurable and tracked

What You've Accomplished:

• BS degree or higher in CS, EE or related discipline
• 8+ years experience in software engineering, 3+ years experience with functional/asynchronous programming and/or object-oriented programming (Erlang a plus, Elixir, Go, Scala, Haskell, Java)
• Experience architecting large-scale distributed platforms for scale, security, and reliability
• Have significant hand-on experience with multi-threading, concurrency, actor systems
• Strong systems analysis and design skills
• A thorough understanding of modern development practices and methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical staff
• Cassandra, Redis, and Healthcare IT experience a plus
• Experience with all phases of application development lifecycle - from requirements gathering to production deployment and support

What You Bring to the Table:

• Ability to motivate and engage with high-performance teams in the delivery of innovative solutions at start-up speed
• A team player who enjoys communicating technical designs and decisions to the team and leading them in delivery
• The wisdom to always be thinking ahead and ability to deliver durable, lasting architectures
• An insatiable appetite for learning new approaches, technologies and architectures and maturity to apply these judiciously
• Able to deftly deliver complex solutions on an aggressive timeline without sacrificing quality or flexibility